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Shaper Now Open Source

Shaper is a minimal data platform for embedded analytics. It allows you to build interactive data dashboards and embed them into your web application.

And starting today, Shaper is open source:

taleshape-com/shaper

Why Open Source?

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My main motivation to open source Shaper is to make it accessible to as many users as possible.

To get the most out of Shaper you want to integrate it deeply into your product and infrastructure. Deeply integrating software from a 3rd-party company always comes with risks of being too dependent on another company. With Shaper you are running open source software in your own infrastructure.

Using an open source solution also means you can verify security and privacy practices. This combined with being able to run Shaper in your own infrastructure makes it a great choice for use cases that handle sensitive data.

Lastly, Shaper itself is built on top of other amazing open source projects, including DuckDB, ECharts, and NATS. To open source Shaper also means paying forward the spirit that made Shaper possible in the first place.

Shaper PRO

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One of my biggest motivations for building Shaper was to enable as many teams as possible to get value out of their data and make their data accessible to their users.

Shaper is designed to be simple to run and easy to use. But it cannot remove the inherent complexity of any data project.

That’s where Shaper PRO comes in.

You can think of it as hiring me as part-time data engineer that manages your data platform and helps you implement your data use cases. What you get:

  • Shaper, fully-managed: Monitoring, updates, backups, security, compliance, and high-availability deployments
  • Extensive support: Integrate Shaper into your product, connect your data sources, manage data, build dashboards

Please reach out if this is something you are interested in.

Give Shaper a try

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Trying out Shaper is as easy as running a single command:

Terminal window
docker run --rm -it -p5454:5454 taleshape/shaper

Then open http://localhost:5454/new in your browser.

I am curious to hear your thoughts and feedback. So don’t hesitate to open an issue or discussion on Github. Or just send a message.

Thank you!
Jorin