Wagon Blog
wagonhq.com · Company blog · on HN since 2015
The company blog of Wagon, a San Francisco startup that built a SQL analytics tool using Haskell and Electron.
What HN saysCommenters remember Wagon as the best local SQL IDE of its time, with automatic visualizations and sharing, and as an all-Haskell startup that was hiring.
17HN people shared it
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Most-shared posts
- 1Wagon will be shutting down on October 3rd8 people · 4 points · first shared 2015 · discussion on HN
- 2How it feels to join an all-Haskell startup2 people · 89 points · first shared 2015 · 55 comments on HN
- 3Jobs2 people · first shared 2015
- 4Wagon Acquired by Box1 people · 59 points · first shared 2016 · 35 comments on HN
- 5How GitHub and Slack Use Electron [video]1 people · 16 points · first shared 2015 · discussion on HN
- 6Building an Analytics Pipeline in 20151 people · 14 points · first shared 2015 · 1 comments on HN
- 7Engineering beyond the browser with Electron1 people · 10 points · first shared 2015 · discussion on HN
- 8Using Haskell in Production – A Wagon Talk at Square1 people · 9 points · first shared 2015 · discussion on HN
- 9Haskell ready for industry? No showstoppers.1 people · 3 points · first shared 2016 · discussion on HN
- 10Haskell in Production at Wagon: Twitter Tech Talk1 people · 3 points · first shared 2015 · discussion on HN
- 11Dear AWS Big Data Blog1 people · 3 points · first shared 2015 · discussion on HN
- 12Calculating Active Users in SQL1 people · 3 points · first shared 2015 · discussion on HN
- 134 great talks from Electron meetup at Microsoft1 people · 2 points · first shared 2015 · discussion on HN
- 14Python UDFs in Amazon Redshift1 people · 2 points · first shared 2016 · discussion on HN
- 15Calculating Running Totals Using SQL1 people · 1 points · first shared 2015 · discussion on HN
What HN people wrote when they linked it
blakeburch · 2021-04-21
Wagon was THE best local SQL IDE on the market back in 2016. It provided automatic metadata visualizations, histograms, run history, and easy graphing for every query that you wrote, with built-in sharing for teams. It was perfect for exploring your data for the first time. Out of nowhere, Box bought them in 2016 and I have no idea what that team ended up doing. https://www.wagonhq.com/
PopSQL has stepped in and filled 90% of the void, but I still miss Wagon.
jweinstein · 2015-12-02
Wagon | San Francisco, CA | Full-time onsite only
We’re hiring for
- Haskell Engineer (Haskell)
- Frontend Engineer (Javascript, React)
- Head of Design (Pixels)
We’re building a modern way for teams to analyze data. Our stack is Haskell, React, and Electron.
Wagon (https://www.wagonhq.com/) is a modern SQL editor: a better way for analysts and engineers to write queries, visualize results, and share data.
Our 7 person team of engineers and data scientists work from a sunny office in San Francisco’s Mission District (19th and Valencia).
Wagon is a great place to do your best work. We’re humble, hard working, and fun. We speak at meetups, contribute to open source projects, and teach SQL courses to the community.
Check out https://www.wagonhq.com/jobs or email [email protected].
boothead · 2016-06-14
In SV (or there abouts) I know of:
https://www.frontrowed.com/
https://www.wagonhq.com/
https://github.com/alphaHeavy
I'm sure there are others too.
dglass · 2017-02-08
Reminds me of https://www.wagonhq.com
awl130 · 2015-12-30
http://wagonhq.com, which is in beta, is phenomenal
B1000 · 2015-03-02
Wagon | http://www.wagonhq.com/jobs | Full-time | San Francisco
UX Designer | Data Visualization Engineer | Backend Engineer | Frontend Engineer
Wagon makes it easy for data analysts and their teams to collaborate. It is a great way to write SQL queries, visually pivot results, and securely share charts with your team. Think Google Docs for data.
Our stack: Haskell, React, and Flux. Learn more at http://www.wagonhq.com/blog and say hi @WagonHQ.
To apply: [email protected]
Why Wagon
- Design, build, and ship everyday
- Join an experienced, ambitious, well funded team
- Sunny office in the Mission, flexible vacation, health care benefits
- Competitive salary, meaningful equity, leadership responsibility
Why You
- Love data analytics and visualization
- Have strong opinions about user experience
- Enjoy collaborating and teaching
- Are smart, curious, and (think you're) funny
guessmyname · 2016-09-01
It used to be (or still is inside Box?) an analytics startup [1][2][3].
EDIT: Their Twitter account also gives a little bit of information: Wagon is a modern SQL editor. A better way for analysts and engineers to write queries, visualize results, and share data & charts [4].
[1] https://www.wagonhq.com/about
[2] https://www.wagonhq.com/blog/engineering-at-wagon/
[3] https://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/37jwip/a/
[4] https://twitter.com/WagonHQ
grinich · 2016-05-11
Wagon actually does this with Haskell: https://www.wagonhq.com/blog/first-two-weeks-haskell-wagon
rickbergfalk · 2015-12-14
Hi Hacker News! So this is where the extra activity is from :) honored to be posted.
SqlPad was something I built to scratch my own itch and was sort of a self-challenge. I haven't done much with it lately, but a few users have contributed some additions back and have been helping with the project.
Just a heads up if you explore the code - I'm not a Node.js developer by trade and this is sort of a hobby for me as a SQL Server developer/DBA.
I'm flattered by the comments here. Really inspiring to get back to work on this.
Also wanted to add - If SqlPad isn't quite what you're looking for but want to visualize SQL results check out these other projects and solutions:
Metabase (http://www.metabase.com/)
Redash (https://github.com/getredash/redash)
Wagon (https://www.wagonhq.com/)
Periscope Data (https://www.periscopedata.com/)
Mode Analytics (https://modeanalytics.com/)
begriffs · 2015-09-01
At Wagon we use Haskell as our main language. And we are hiring. :)
http://www.wagonhq.com/jobs/haskell-engineer
akurilin · 2015-06-24
A couple of them mentioned here just for the Bay: http://www.wagonhq.com/blog/bayhac . Hope we still qualify as a startup!