Numeracy
p/numeracy
A SQL pad that gives you x-ray vision for your data
Chris Messina
Numeracy 2.0 — Write less SQL, faster
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Numeracy is a SQL pad that makes writing, iterating, and visualizing faster at every step of your analysis. Version 2.0 includes the launch of parameters that let you avoid writing convoluted SQL syntax, beautiful dashboards, and hundreds of refinements to the query editor.

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Tom Moor

I've been using Numeracy for the last 6 months to track analytics on a wide range of metrics in a SAAS service.

Having built KPI dashboards for my own startups several times in the past I wish Numeracy had existed back then – with less than an hours work you can have a dashboard that aggregates data from across your application. You'll refer to it every day to help you make core business decisions.

Pros:

Beautiful design, just the right amount of features

Cons:

Still need to brush up on SQL skills to use

Joe Anderson
Congrats Brian, this looks like an incredibly snappy and simple way to view your SQL data. The dashboard is super slick!
Brian Smith
@anderson760 Thanks Joe, I really appreciate it!
Brian Smith
Thanks for Hunting us Chris! We’re really excited to be launching Numeracy 2.0 today. When we first launched on Product Hunt about a year ago we had a very basic SQL pad with a couple of novel interactions, but since then we’ve rebuilt the app from the ground up with hundreds of improvements, optimizations, and new features. The 2 biggest features are dashboards and parameterized queries. Dashboards were our number 1 request when we launched last year and we worked really hard to make something that looks great and is intuitive to use. We originally built parameters as a way to create dynamic queries for dashboards, but along the way we realized that it allowed you to write much less convoluted SQL, even if you never plan on putting your query in a dashboard. Maybe most importantly, with this release Numeracy is now free for individuals. We think there are far too many people still using psql who could be dramatically more efficient. We’ve also cut the price of using Numeracy with your teammates to only $10 per user per month. These changes have been a year in the making, and we think they make Numeracy the fastest way to query and visualize data. We have a lot more details about what went into this release in this blog post (https://blog.numeracy.io/numerac...), but but mostly we’re excited for you to try the latest version Numeracy and let us know what you think. P.S we’ve also hidden some easter eggs in our new user experience if you’re interested in solving some SQL and visualization based puzzles. Brian
Daveyon Mayne
@sirwart Awesome product. I'll pass on the message as a know few people that would be benefited from this.
Brian Smith
@mirmayne Thanks Daveyon, I'm glad you like it!
Ashish Pandhi
We tend to use Metabase for tasks like this. Are you guys trying to replace the team BI Dashboard, or the SQL editor for devs?
Brian Smith
@ashpangeek we support lightweight BI dashboarding, but our main focus has been the SQL workflow, whether you're a developer looking things up in an application database or an analyst doing analytics in a data warehouse.
Ozgur Ozer
Can we use this on local databases?
Brian Smith
@ozgrozer Unfortunately right now we can only connect to cloud accessible databases, unless you use the on-premise version which is probably heavier duty than you want for local database querying.
Claude Schneider
This looks awesome - I've been looking for a SQL-to-chart tool for ages, to help report on our user data. Will have to check it out!
Burke Autrey
Numeracy was sold to Snowflake in March 2019 and will be shut down by September 2019 and is not accepting new customers. Would be nice if there were a way to mark these listings as "sold" or "out of business" (assuming there is not already a way to do that).
Steven Kabbes

In getting Bright solar off the ground, I've tried several tools from psql, pgcli, pgweb, Metabase and finally Periscope. For quick analysis, nothing even compares to the raw speed of Numeracy.

Numeracy gets out of my way and lets me write SQL, but goes above and beyond. The automatically calculated column statistics of any query have already helped me identify and fix data bugs I wasn't even looking for, and the "record view" for JSONB types is singlehandedly saving my vision.

This is the simple SQL tool I've been looking for since the first time I used phpMyAdmin, and is steadily replacing my BI use cases too.

Pros:

Fast. Beautiful. Fast. Column statistics are incredibly useful.

Cons:

Historically is has been dashboarding, can't wait to try it out in 2.0.

Steve Bartel

The whole engineering team at ZenSourcer team loves how easy Numeracy makes it to write queries, whether that’s to quickly debug a customer issue or throw together a quick analytics dashboard.

Pros:

The fastest way to query a database. I haven’t opened psql since I started using Numeracy!

Cons:

I wish they could auto-import our chart.io dashboards instead of recreating them manually.

Kyle Alwyn
Looks great! The gifs showcase the product really well. Curious, how are you positioning yourself in the market? Going after BI a la Chartio / Looker or more back office tooling like Retool ?
Brian Smith
@kylealwyn Hey Kyle, we definitely think of ourselves closer to BI tools but much more lightweight, so you can put together a dashboard but also do a quick lookup in the database instead of opening psql or other SQL editor.
Gary Torres
This product looks amazing! Too bad I found out about it till now as it has been acquired by Snowflake. Do you guys know if there is a SaaS alternative to Numeracy?
Atta ⚡️
Awesome! Love the intuitive design and super fast product. I think it will be much better if you allow users to connect to the database via SSH too. Overall A++++ 👏
Brian Smith
@attacomsian thanks! We'll definitely let you know when we support connecting to databases over SSH
Nick Bushak

Our entire team has been using Numeracy for a year+ -- it's been rock solid and many of us use it daily. Don't know where we would be without it!

Pros:

the fastest, easiest, most collaborative way to query a database

Cons:

there's nothing out there as good as this for what it does

Nate Harris
Woah this looks fire flames 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Brian Smith
@nate_harris Thanks Nate! We tried hard to make data and SQL something that's fun to use.
Fabian Mossberg
Would like to try it, but when registering it says "You must be invited to join Josh Cope on Numeracy.". I don't know who Josh Cope is, i really doubt he knows who I am. So the chance of him inviting me seems small.
Brian Smith
@fabian_mossberg Hi Fabian, sorry for the error. Could you try again?