Launch HN: Dataform (YC W18) – Build Reliable SQL Data Pipelines as a Team

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Hi HN!We’re Guillaume and Lewis, founders of Dataform, and we're excited (and nervous) to be posting this on HN.Dataform is a platform for data analysts to manage data workflows in cloud data warehouses such as Google BigQuery, Amazon Redshift or Snowflake. With our open source framework and our web app, analysts can develop and schedule reliable pipelines to turn raw data into reliable datasets they need for analytics.Before starting Dataform, we managed engineering teams in AdSense and led product analytics for publisher ads. We heavily relied on data (and data pipelines!) to generate insights, drive better decisions and build better products. Companies like Google invest a lot to build internal data tools for analysts to manage data and build data pipelines. In 5 minutes I could define a new dataset in SQL that would be updated every day and then use it in my reports.Most businesses today are centralising their raw data into cloud data warehouses but lack the tools to manage it ef…