Replace Power BI with Apache Superset
Plus: Hob - Open-source, and on device alternative to Claude Cowork and C….
Morning, builders. This week we’re replacing Power BI — your dashboards & BI. Below are the 2 open-source tools that do the job, ranked, with how hard each is to run. Then: what builders shipped this week. Every item links to its source.
Replace this subscription: Power BI
It’s your dashboards & BI. Here’s what you can run instead:
- 01Apache Superset
Enterprise-ready data exploration and visualization.
★ 75.4k · Open source · effort: an ops project - 02Metabase
Questions and dashboards for everyone in the company.
★ 50k · License unclear · effort: an afternoon
What builders shipped
Hob - Open-source, on device alternative to Claude Cowork and ChatGPT
- The story
- 173 points and 43 comments on Hacker News · github.com.
- The signal
- open sourcealternativelocal-first
Harvey raised 500M for legal AI, I built the same and open sourced it
- The story
- 69 points and 38 comments on Hacker News · github.com.
- The signal
- open source
How this was made. Replacement: one subscription per week, rotating through every product in the catalog with at least two open-source replacements, tools ranked by GitHub stars. Stories: Hacker News and Lobsters posts from the past seven days that clear an engagement floor and carry a build-it-yourself signal, ranked by points × signal strength. Climbing: stars gained over seven days from nightly GitHub snapshots.