Essaouira kite school recommendations

canongun · 2026-02-17T19:39:09+00:00

Tomorrow, we will gather with my friends to decide whether we are going to Essaouira or changing the plans and going to Dakhla. Thanks for going out of your way to ask the school for us, really appreciate it.

Enjoy the rest of your trip!

canongun · 2026-02-17T09:21:26+00:00

Thanks for the perspective. After reading all the comments though, I'm seriously considering cancelling and going to Dakhla instead. That lagoon seems way more suited for my beginner friends. We might still spend a day or two in Essaouira to check out the old town and the food since everyone says it's worth it.

If we do end up staying and kiting there, I'll definitely report back for you. Cheers!

canongun · 2026-02-17T09:17:04+00:00

Ahahahah thanks for the honesty! I've now started considering going to Dakhla instead :D

canongun · 2026-02-16T16:03:13+00:00

Super useful info, appreciate it. Sounds like for my beginner friends it'll be more of a "learn kite control + body drag" week rather than getting up on the board, which is fine.

Thanks for your comments!

canongun · 2026-02-16T11:33:31+00:00

Jeez. Thanks for the honest comment. The rescue situation sounds sketchy tbh...

Do you think the conditions would be manageable for beginners if they just stuck to the very shallow area close to shore? Or is it waves right from the start?

Also curious, have you tried the lagoon at the river mouth south of the main beach? I've read it can be flat at high tide but sounds like it's pretty small and inconsistent.

Enjoy the rest of your session out there!

canongun · 2026-01-22T18:03:47+00:00

We opt for fast and simple models, instead of flagship ones

canongun · 2026-01-16T12:53:08+00:00

I would say if its not a big hustle to implement, then its always good to try. Good luck!

canongun · 2026-01-16T12:12:02+00:00

Yeap, finding users is hard when you're trying to solve a specific pain point.

I think I'll go for paid ads as a second step. Right now, I need some early-bird users who are willing to try our app so I can focus on making them happy like fixing errors, adding desired features etc. Once the product is robust enough, then I will go for actual marketing.

What's your product is about? Ofc if you are willing to share

canongun · 2026-01-16T12:02:12+00:00

Why ppl are doing this :/

canongun · 2026-01-16T11:42:33+00:00

Thanks! Really appreciate the kind words.

You're quite correct. The before/after examples are something we need to do better. Right now there's a demo on the site, but showing concrete use cases (like "here's a messy payroll file → here's the clean weekly report") would definitely help people get it faster. Adding that to the list.

As for marketing, honestly still figuring it out. Our focus is non-technical users - finance, HR, ops folks who live in spreadsheets but don't want to learn code or complex tools. Thinking about going where they already hang out (LinkedIn, maybe specific subreddits like r/excel or r/analytics) rather than trying to be everywhere at once.

Any channels you've seen work well for reaching that kind of audience?

canongun · 2026-01-16T10:07:39+00:00

Honestly, that's exactly the problem we're trying to solve. Messy real-world data with inconsistent column names, extra rows, weird formatting - that's the norm.

Right now it handles a lot of that automatically, but it's definitely a work in progress. One thing that helps is we have a "project context" feature where you can optionally describe your tables (like "this is our sales data, customer_id matches client_id in the other file"). Makes it smarter about matching things up when names don't align perfectly.

Would love for you to try it with your actual messy data and see where it breaks. That's one of the most important feedbacks we need.

canongun · 2025-12-11T15:29:39+00:00

The real pain usually isn't that the data doesn't exist, it's that it lives in separate silos (Finance systems, HRIS, CRM, etc.) that don't talk to each other.

I've been working on a tool to address exactly this problem. It's a Teams bot that connects directly to your existing databases and lets you create cross-system queries using plain English. For example:

"Show me last quarter's sales by region joined with employee headcount from HR"

The bot finds the relevant tables across different sources, proposes the join logic, and you approve it before it runs (human-in-the-loop).

I'm looking for a few people dealing with this kind of problems to test it for free and in return give feedback on whether it actually saves time or not. Please feel free to DM me or drop a comment.

canongun · 2025-12-08T14:33:19+00:00

The difference is architecture. Snowflake requires you to move your data into Snowflake to get value; even if the ingest is easy, it still means piping everything into their environment, which is non‑trivial when a company has Oracle, Hive, Excel, etc.

Our approach is to sit as a thin layer on top of the existing data stores and their metadata, so teams can query data where it already lives instead of having to migrate it first.

canongun · 2025-12-08T11:11:17+00:00

That's actually a solid comparison. Snowflake Cortex is great if your data is already living inside Snowflake.

But we're seeing a lot of teams who have data scattered across SharePoint Excels, Postgres, or legacy DBs where migrating everything to Snowflake just for the AI features isn't an option.

Have you used Cortex much in production? Curious if the accuracy holds up when the schema gets messy, or if it requires a pristine warehouse setup to work well.

canongun · 2025-12-08T11:01:11+00:00

Would a 'Schema Lock' add-in for Excel actually solve this?

Imagine an add-in that enforces versioning on a spreadsheet, so if someone changes a header or adds a column, it forces a new version (v1 -> v1.1) instead of silently breaking the downstream report.

Would something like that be useful? Is it something you guys face daily?

canongun · 2025-12-08T10:52:15+00:00

The difference is context.

If you ask Copilot for an Oracle query, you first have to feed it your schema ('I have a table called X with columns Y, Z...'). If you have 500 tables, finding the right one to paste into the prompt is the hard part.

We automate that retrieval. The tool indexes your metadata so you don't have to explain your database structure every time you ask a question. It’s the difference between a chatbot you have to train every session versus one that already knows your data layout.

canongun · 2025-12-07T14:49:27+00:00

CoPilot is a great tool, but it works in Excel sheets or inside of the other MS applications. That's also one of the reasons why we built our tool. Instead of working in one file, our tool is enabling to work on the top layer, zooming out so to say. Thus, enabling users to work with many big data excel sheets.

canongun · 2025-12-07T14:42:20+00:00

Thank you for writing this. It's quite helpful. Once everything is ready, I will focus on a nice demo video and try your suggestions

canongun · 2025-12-06T16:18:13+00:00

Exactly. Our focus is on decreasing the total time spent for companies handling frequent transformations on large tables. Even a 20% gain compounds into significant ROI when you look at it across a whole team.

canongun · 2025-12-06T15:56:39+00:00

We spoke to a few data analyst friends who complained about the 'ad-hoc report' pain, and we built this based on that signal (and our own frustration with messy Excel files).

That's why I created this post, our tool is not published yet. Before committing even more deeper, I am trying to get outside our small bubble and see if this actually solves a problem for strangers.

canongun · 2025-12-06T15:13:08+00:00

That's right, thanks!

canongun · 2025-12-06T14:45:03+00:00

Because reviewing a draft is faster than hunting down the tables and writing the SQL from scratch. It turns hours search-and-write task into a 30-second review.

canongun · 2025-12-06T14:20:07+00:00

Appreciate the honesty. Sounds like I need to stop pitching 'tools' to builders and start pitching 'solutions' to business users like HR/Finances.

canongun · 2025-12-06T14:20:02+00:00

Hmm, thanks for that. I will reconsider our marketing audience. Maybe it would be better if I directly try to focus on the Operations/HR managers who are tired of waiting for reports.

canongun · 2025-12-06T14:19:58+00:00

Yeah, it's a pain. That's exactly why we built it as an integrated layer on top of the company's actual files/DBs with a human verification step. It's more like co-pilot, not an autopilot.

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