points by tomwphillips 1 day ago | 0 comments
Your comment reminds me of this one about Dropbox: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
As a data generalist in an business, it makes zero sense for me to spend my time building a it tool like Hex when I can buy one and spend my time actually moving the needle on business outcomes.
Just because you can doesn't mean you should.
However, I'd argue that BI tooling could "dissolve away" altogether. As long as you have queryable data, an intermediate BI tool is unnecessary - just one-shot whatever dashboard you're interested in seeing...