Show HN: DAC – open-source dashboard as code tool for agents and humans

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57 points | by karakanb 3 days ago

10 comments

  • MSaiRam10 17 minutes ago
    Semantic layer + validation is the interesting part imo, everything else is table stakes. would lead with that
  • hasyimibhar 1 hour ago
    Why not use Vega-Lite[0]? It’s my go-to data viz DSL with Claude.

    [0] https://vega.github.io/vega-lite/

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    • karakanb 58 minutes ago
      There are quite a few libraries for charts and visualization, there are not as many for actually combining many of them with layouts, different components and including the actual implementation of the backend. Dac aims to provide all that as a standard and an implementation.
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      • hasyimibhar 1 minute ago
        I mean that's what the Vega team is doing no? They are building the standard grammar (Vega-Lite), along with an implementation (Vega). And they are already quite established with rich ecosystem, and supports a ton of components[0]. The only thing missing is that it expects a CSV or inline data source. But it's probably not too hard to build an extension that connects to a data warehouse with an SQL query.

        [0] https://vega.github.io/vega-lite/examples

  • lexh 3 hours ago
    Consider adding that snazzy gif in the README to the docs landing page. I went straight to the docs and then hunted for a screenshot to no avail.
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    • karakanb 3 hours ago
      That's a great idea, will do very quickly, thanks!
  • 5-0 3 hours ago
    DaC might be more distinguishable from DAC, although the context obviously also helps readers telling them apart.

    Yours sincerely, came here for another DAC

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  • crefiz 2 hours ago
    I reckon this is a simplification of existing BIAC tools (eg, https://github.com/lightdash/lightdash)
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    • karakanb 1 hour ago
      Partly, yes. It is a simplification with the perspective that the agents would be the primary builders.
  • SomeHacker44 2 hours ago
    The blurb about this is repeated several times but it is unclear to me what it actually does.
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    • karakanb 2 hours ago
      You write a few lines of YAML or JSX and you get a dynamic, interactive dashboard out of it. Do you have any suggestions on how to make it simpler?
  • MuffinFlavored 1 hour ago
    Might want to add how this compares to other products in the space.

    Some that come to mind that are potentially tangentially related/similar:

    https://github.com/evidence-dev/evidence

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