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Issue #10 - QueryZy: Democratizing Data Analysis for Everyone

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Happy Sunday Techtopians.
I hope you all had an amazing Christmas and Holidays! 🎅🏻 🎄🎁

Just a fun fact about where I live, Christmas starts on November and ends mid to late January…
Yes, we take the holidays very serious. 😀 

This week I reached out to Niko, a seasoned software engineer with 16 years of experience across diverse industries, the platform aims to democratize data analysis by enabling users to easily clean, cross-reference, visualize, and export data without complex setup or configuration who just recently launched an app for querying databases. I was a beta tester of the app and I have to say that’s amazing and I’m just waiting to see which direction this app goes.

QueryZy is an AI-powered, web-based data analysis tool that empowers users to interact with their data files effortlessly through plain English queries. The tool addresses a crucial need in data management by allowing seamless interaction with CSV, JSON, Parquet, and Arrow file formats, all while keeping data secure and local.

But enough for now, over to Niko!

My recent article:

QueryZy: Democratizing Data Analysis for Everyone

Can you tell me a little bit about yourself and your business or product?

I am a senior software engineer with 16 years XP in various industries. I started with co-founding MRX SYSTEMS a startup in aviation, been a freelancer a couple years, joined iFollow a startup in robotics for logistics, worked as a freelancer for a second hand e-commerce platform called LeBoncoin and finally here I am with indie hack ambitions :)

QueryZy is web based AI-powered data analysis and reporting tool on your data files (CSV, JSON, parquet and arrow formats).

- Data is safe and remains locally on the computer.

- No setup or configuration hassle

User can do the followings:

- ask questions about your data in plain English

- no idea on the type questions, just use our  suggestions

- clean a dataset of it's inconsistent values

- Cross data between multiple files

- Select, filter, aggregate data

- Plot resulting data to a chart

- Export resulting data to CSV|JSON

- Convert CSV|JSON|ARROW|PARQUET to CSV|JSON

What was your main inspiration for creating QueryZy?

First inspiration was related to a direct need at LeBoncoin. We had many databases, a global system to manage event streaming, logs and metrics but nothing the four entities. We were able to extract data from each systems (millions of records) but couldn't effectively connect the data. 

QueryZy is able to fix that problem.

On the entrepreneur side of it: on my past experiences, I always spent too much time on developing the software and only then sell it. I wanted to test building the website in a week max, then test the idea and the market and only then develop the app... I only partially succeeded… the appeal for coding is too big :)

How do you define success in your business?

Make the users happy and have a lot of them. My ultimate goal is to create other products that solve problems, keep a direct relation to my users and make a living out of it while raising my new born son.

If you were to start again from scratch, what would you do differently?

Nothing so far, luckily! I think I have made so much mistakes in my previous experiences that I'm focusing on not doing it again.

What advice would you give to someone just starting out or has the same idea of creating a tool like QueryZy?

Bring your idea out there as quick as possible to get feedback (website, social networks), then build and ship fast one meaningful feature! Doesn't matter if you have bugs, you’ll fix them…

What was the most challenging aspect of Building in Public or Indie Hacking?

Finding the true use case, not the coolest one but the most useful one to the users.

If you were to start again from scratch, what would you do differently?

Where can people find you?

Indie page: invoking.dev 

Product: queryzy.com 

- Social networks are on both websites

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