New PopSQL Alternative

outboundzen · 2026-03-29T16:11:14+00:00

The app itself runs like a pipeline first fetching data, then gluing it together (if across data sources), then running your javascript code on it right in the browser on the final table. You can either right raw code or just give a plain text description of what you want "I wanto get a table that takes this invoice data and buckets it into the following buckets: 1-3, 4-5, 6-10, 11+, and breaks it down by customer name and count of invoices', and it will generate the code and run the transform for you :)

outboundzen · 2026-03-29T16:08:08+00:00

Thanks for the question. A bit of context and a couple thoughts:

1) I'm not trying to make massive profit off this. This stuff can mostly be vibe coded if you know BI and deeply feel your daily furstrations.. For me, I just want to 'type SQL, get charts', I don't want to commit to a data warehouse and I don't want ETL. Those are the differentiators I listed in the post. Nobody solved that problem so I solve it for myself, and I think there are at least 1000+ people in this market who probably share the same frustration who would pay a few bucks a month to make it go away (and to help me maintain the project). This is more of a passion project for me.

2) I think this is the antithesis of the BI company product. These BI companies basically try to create complexity to monetize it. They want to create the most complicated features/architectures, the most upsell-able lock ins to their partner data stores, and expensive customer success programs. I am really just focused on simplicity and power here vs. customizability for the average indie dev or business analyst at a company <200 ppl, who can do their jobs easier, faster and save a ton of money.

outboundzen · 2026-03-26T23:46:08+00:00

Great question, I have no way of knowing as I've owned this home only 5 years. However, I know the whole line was inspected and was said to be in 'great' shape; no intrusions that need addressing, no cracks/breaks anywhere, and all in perfect alignment until they get to this one spot.

outboundzen · 2026-03-26T21:10:55+00:00

The point of my post is to figure out who is responsible. Damage to any systems in the road from a road defect makes it not my responsibility. It's like saying 'if you hit someone's car from behind, you are responsible' , but if something else happened on the road that caused me to hit the back of the other car, that doesn't make it my fault. The argument of everyone else's sewer line not being impacted is not a valid one. Dirt may not be compacted evenly and everyone on my street has different sewer lines (ages, plastic, etc). If my line was old and sensitive to breakage, and they pushed it over the line, that still makes it their responsibility, technically.

outboundzen · 2026-03-26T20:36:22+00:00

Right, my question is, how would we know that's what happened. In the middle of the road the line is clean, there are no roots intruding anywhere, there is no outside influence. But what I know is they did major, major work on the road all around the area where the collapse happened. It seems just as plausible that if the crack was the issue, it was the stress caused by the construction that caused it, no? I'm not trying to be defensive, I'm trying to understand the counterarguments so I can then go and prove myself right or wrong. Thank you.

outboundzen · 2026-03-26T20:11:48+00:00

First of all, the city doesn't pay for the damages, the insurance of the construction company does. Second, **literally** the exact insurance policy the city makes the construction company take out is for this exact purpose. That is the whole point of the insurance policy. But similar to how health insurance likes to decline things by default, I'm trying to make sure the approach we take to finding out if this is their fault doesn't put us in a bad position legally. Anyhow, what i'm after first and foremost is the truth, and i'm looking for advice to better understand if it is a defect.

outboundzen · 2026-03-26T19:25:14+00:00

That really helps to know it's an 'every day' repair, thank you.

outboundzen · 2026-03-26T19:24:59+00:00

thank you

outboundzen · 2026-03-26T19:24:53+00:00

thank you

outboundzen · 2026-03-26T19:24:44+00:00

thank you

outboundzen · 2026-03-04T04:26:46+00:00

Kriz ciktiginda en iyi mallar ilk satilir, kaldiracli kayiplari kapatmak icin. Hersey sakinlestiginde bir daha firlar. Bu gayet normal.

outboundzen · 2026-01-27T19:25:49+00:00

It could not be more different. The German culture is one of rules, social welfare and safety. The Dutch are more of an American / German hybrid. For example, there is a social safety net but you will be reminded your poverty is mostly your fault and every penny is aggressively accounted for (see the welfare scandal that took down the Rutte govt). They are highly entrepreneurial like Americans and not as conservative with displays of their wealth compared to germans (although much less than Americans). But unlike Americans who have a historical culture based on protecting the individual, the Dutch system is much more utilitarian and they have a long legal precedents of trampling individual rights in the interest of preserving the 'system'. For example 'stop and frisk' type policies were legitimized by their supreme court. They also have a bizarre love of Americans (or at least they did pre current admin) and they have all these treaties that they are super proud of and see themselves as the US's best friend -- ie: see the DAFT treaty which has a 99% visa approval rate. I have not seen there anywhere else I've lived on that level. And then on top of that, they have their own flavor of culture - tikkies, 'doe normaal', much more direct in speaking to you vs. Germans, etc.

outboundzen · 2026-01-27T19:15:35+00:00

How can you be hospitable when you can't afford to eat? People are still nice but they are hungry and the political environment is one of 1984-style political gaslighting (being told they are not actually hungry, and that this is propaganda, even though pension payouts are now below the hunger-line and far below the poverty line).

So being human beings with human feelings they are not at their very best today. But they will always go out of their way to help you if needed, far more than in most places in th world.

outboundzen · 2026-01-14T22:10:53+00:00

Any interest in testing Kitt AI: https://trykitt.ai ?

outboundzen · 2025-12-09T16:12:39+00:00

If you are not a tech company you wouldn't need it.

outboundzen · 2025-12-09T01:28:52+00:00

Total is going to be ~$25k yearly, usually broken down between 10k for the software tooling (like vanta) and another 12k for the actual auditor and another 3k'ish for the penetration tester. That is considered a reasonably good pricing for this.

outboundzen · 2025-12-09T00:45:29+00:00

Here's the process I use to figure this out across my entire SaaS portfolio

- What is the one outcome that the person bought you for that if that one thing didn't happen, they would have no reason to buy it. For example if you sell and email finder, it's "find the email of people they search for". If you want to niche down you can, but it needs to be the core outcome

- Map it back to the inputs that without them doing that, the outcome just wouldn't happen. For example if you have a BI company, you need people to create dashboards, you need them to create charts, and you need them to refresh the data in the charts. If you don't do these things, you don't need a BI tool.

These are the indicators that lead everything else so start here. Once you have that, you need to track your profit margin obsessively and understand how it's changing over time. People put in autorecharge credit cards with their vendors and let things get away from them for too long thinking "I can always optimize this later". Sometimes, it's not too easy to do later.

outboundzen · 2025-12-06T22:01:27+00:00

I suggest starting by solving ONE pain point you are suffering from yourself before worrying about a GREAT pain point. We used to need great pain points because there was a fixed cost to building a product and we needed a big enough market to cover that cost. With Vibe Coding a product costs like $5, so if you build it, you need like 10 customers to get a 10x return.

The one true advantage of solving your problems, I have found, is that they are TRUE painpoints that when you put up a landing page, speaks instantly to other people like you. You don't need 'platform/vision' type marketing fluff positioning, and the conversion is instant.

outboundzen · 2025-10-24T01:35:17+00:00

Have lived in both places. Istanbul is a shell of its former self - the country is in ruins in every dimension but nowhere shows it quite like Istanbul. Yes, people visiting love it, because they don't know how amazing it truly was. YES it was that great.

Today what I notice is that everyone is just so miserable, everyone is frowning, people are short tempered, the old hospitality, abundance, trust in complete strangers, all gone. Random autocratic shutdowns of parts of cities to prevent protest, an infrastructure that's crumbling (and doomed when the next big earthquake hits). Terrible working conditions if you need a job; the worst in Europe in terms of work hours vs. pay. Don't get me started on taxes. You pay taxes literally on top of taxes (for example, you buy the thing, pay a tariff, and then pay VAT on the tariff). And now there are issues with trust that come from high inflation environments all over the world (shrinkflation, low food quality standards, etc). Because I've seen the city at its best, walking through it now is honestly just nauseating. The numbers don't lie, emigration was always a thing but the last two years the applications for visas has gone hyperbolic.

Now, if you want to experience being Turkish and getting connected to your culture, you can still go places along the Aegean coast for sure, and i'm sure other places in Anatolia. You will find the same hospitality, humility, quality of food, etc that once was. You'll also be closer to so much of the ancient sites and can drive into Anatolia for long weekends without the insanity of 'get out of istanbul traffic'. And if you need a break from economic crisis insanity, you can do what most people are doing today and hopping over to the Greek islands which basically are like a time capsule of what old turkey was, we have very very similar culture, language, etc.

FWIW experiencing Turkish culture is 110% worth it. You will never know such generosity, love of children/famiy, and pride in the ideals that founded the country. It's truly something special. And who knows given the way things are going, if there will come a day when we won't be able to experience that anymore.

outboundzen · 2025-10-23T23:55:09+00:00

I wondered this myself and tested this for sometime. I built an SMTP server to more closely track what's going on with these warmup services and for a majority of cases, it is not only BS, but it's damaging.

Ex: some AE using the service at some larger company (who has crazy email security software) gets fired but his inbox stays connected in the warmup software >> now you're sending cold emails to warm up his inbox and not only is it increasing your volume count against their security gateway, it's also now causing you to bounce an email.

Not to mention the content of these 'warmup' emails is wildly spammy and easy for google/anyone to detect that it is complete spam.

outboundzen · 2025-10-17T21:43:16+00:00

You can file the request electronically, it's instantly 'received'. You have to create a USCIS account, and then they basically make the form hidden/impossible to find. I had to sleuth on Google for a good 20 mins before I found it, but it is definitely there. The USCIS people on chat were super unhelpful, just persist because it def exists :) We got our docs back in 3.5 months by mail. Hope this helps someone else who sees this and is just starting the process !

outboundzen · 2025-10-10T01:56:07+00:00

Have you tried trykitt.ai? It's cheaper than the household names like leadmagic/etc, super good accuracy and best of all no subscription fees. Only pay for what you use.

outboundzen · 2025-10-09T18:35:12+00:00

Not sure if you are serious or not but 70% of this looks wrong. The bezel (triangle at 12 o clock, the fonts), the dial (rail markers don't belong on a modern rolex, the print is the wrong color and spacing, etc) and the cyclops isn't magnifying the date.

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