Hey Product Hunt,
I’m Adam, and alongside @hughess, @ud3sh, @charles_evidence, @archiewood, @csjh and @itsmebriand, we’re the team building Evidence.
We’re analysts first and foremost, and Evidence is the tool we always wished we’d had.
What is Evidence?
Evidence is an open source, code-based alternative to drag and drop BI tools.
Why code based?
Building reporting in code allows you to:
- Version control your BI layer, and use tools like GitHub to collaborate
- Add CI/CD processes to your reports, so that they don’t break unexpectedly
- Support text natively, using markdown to explain your charts and tables
- Control what content is displayed, using if statements, loops and page templates
- Deliver a better UX, with fine-grained control over viz, layout and report architecture
Why now?
Reporting is still one of the most important products of every data team, and the best data teams are increasingly working in code. Drag and drop reporting solutions are just a bad fit with this new workflow.
What’s new today?
Evidence core is already a thriving open source project used in production by teams ranging from startups to billion dollar enterprises.
Today We’re launching Evidence Cloud: our managed hosting and authentication service for Evidence projects. It makes it easy to deploy and securely share Evidence projects with your team.
We’re offering a special promo for Product Hunt: use the promo code FIRSTMONTHFREE when signing up to get a month of Evidence Cloud’s Team Plan for free ($500 value).
Thank you for your support and we look forward to hearing your feedback about Evidence!
We're big fans of Evidence at Meltano! Their BI as code approach is what's needed in this space. Huge congrats to the team on this launch!
This is my favorite project over the past year or so, been very happy using it for mdsinabox.com! Building an end to end "data visualization platform" has only been possible because of Evidence as the display layer with "BI as code." The MDX affordances + beautiful default visualizations (seriously, they look so great) are excellent too.
I've been using Evidence for a while now, and am blown away. This is a game changer for Data teams. Please, please give it a try - especially if you do business-facing data analytics and are tired of the same-old same-old. On top of all this, the team is great, nice, and responsive. Love it!
Congratulations on the launch! This looks really solid, SQL + markdown is a really solid combo and having a degree of proper source control is a feature that's desperately missing from a lot of competing tools, very nice work.
About Evidence 2.0 on Product Hunt
“Business intelligence as code”
Evidence 2.0 launched on Product Hunt on October 4th, 2023 and earned 140 upvotes and 29 comments, placing #19 on the daily leaderboard. Evidence allows you to build automated reports using SQL and Markdown. It's an open source alternative to drag-and-drop BI tools.
Evidence 2.0 was featured in Open Source (68.3k followers), Developer Tools (511.2k followers) and Business Intelligence (3.5k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 78.7k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted Evidence 2.0?
Evidence 2.0 was hunted by Michael Seibel. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
Want to see how Evidence 2.0 stacked up against nearby launches in real time? Check out the live launch dashboard for upvote speed charts, proximity comparisons, and more analytics.
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