About

Hi, I am Jorin, the developer behind Shaper.

Over the years I have been working on data projects from analytics dashboards to 3rd-party integrations and complex data export interfaces in industries from healthcare to financial services.

It always frustrated me how many tools you need to even solve simple problems. I don’t mind learning new tools. But adding -often complex- tools not only makes the overall system more difficult to maintain and reason about, but it makes it harder to bring new people on board.

Two recent trends let me to see an opportunity to simplify how we build data products:

1. DuckDB gaining popularity in the data community
2. The rise of AI-powered software development

DuckDB allows you to query across different data sources with just SQL. And AI makes it easier than ever to write SQL.

SQL is already great at describing what data you want. What if it also describes how the data should be visualized?

Shaper does exactly that: It allows you to build data dashboards with just SQL.

Why Open Source?

To build valuable data products you need to integrate them deeply into your software and workflows. And you shouldn’t have to take the risk to depend on a vendor for something that is essential for your business and hard to replace.

That’s why Shaper is fully open source, with no feature gatekeeping.

And since we started out with this goal in mind, Shaper is built from the ground up to run in your own infrastructure.

Not only does it protect you from vendor lock-in, it also ensures your customer data never leaves your infrastructure.

Shaper PRO

Shaper is completely open source and free to use. But you still need to ensure Shaper is running reliably and securely. And to get the most value out of Shaper you want to deeply integrate it into your software and processes.

This is where Shaper PRO comes in. Focus on what’s essential to your business, let us take care of operating Shaper, and get proactive support to ensure you get the most value out of Shaper.

Shaper PRO gets you:

• Fully-managed Operations: Backups, monitoring, updates, security best-practices, ensure compliance, high-availability deployments
• Proactive Support: Integrating Shaper into your software, connecting data sources, building dashboards

Reach out if this is something you are interested in.

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