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Reventure App: Real Estate Market Intelligence
Reventure is a real estate data analytics platform providing market insights for investors and homebuyers — visualizing price trends, affordability, and market dynamics across US markets. Data-driven real estate analysis accessible to individual investors.
Cube: The Semantic Layer for Data Applications
Cube is an open-source semantic layer for building data applications — it sits between your data sources and your frontend, defining metrics, dimensions, and access control in a single place. Eliminates duplicated metric logic across BI tools, APIs, and embedded analytics.
Numbers Station: AI-Powered Data Stack Automation
Numbers Station is an AI co-pilot for data workers that automates data-intensive workflows — transformations, SQL generation, pipeline building — without requiring Python or engineering involvement. Targets the gap between BI tools and data engineering.
Definite: 10x Faster AI Analytics
Definite is an AI-assisted analytics frontend for the modern data stack — natural language to SQL, auto-generated charts, and collaborative dashboards on top of your existing data warehouse. Positioned as a 10x faster alternative to traditional BI tools like Looker or Mode.
Luabase: Web3 Data Stack
Luabase is a blockchain data platform that ETLs on-chain data into queryable SQL tables — 'we ETL blockchains so you don't have to.' An early attempt to give analysts standard SQL access to blockchain activity without dealing with raw node data.
Unidata: Open Web3 Data Aggregation Protocol
Unidata is an open protocol for aggregating and standardizing user activity data across Web3 — social posts, NFT collections, token holdings, DeFi positions — into a unified queryable graph. Designed as a data portability layer for decentralized applications.
Flipside Crypto — Blockchain Analytics Platform
Flipside Crypto is a blockchain analytics platform providing SQL-queryable on-chain data across Ethereum, Solana, Terra, and other chains. Notable for its bounty model where analysts earn FLOW tokens for producing quality dashboards — crowdsourcing blockchain data analysis.
The StoryGraph — Goodreads Alternative
StoryGraph is a Goodreads alternative built by a Black founder that focuses on mood-based book recommendations and detailed reading stats. It's privacy-respecting, ad-free, and adds reading pace, mood tagging, and pace tracking that Goodreads never bothered building.
The Web3 Index
Web3 Index tracks real protocol revenue and demand metrics across decentralized networks — focusing on fee generation as a measure of genuine usage rather than token price or TVL. A useful signal-vs-noise filter for evaluating which web3 protocols have real economic activity.
Outset Capital: Pre-Seed Funding Data
Outset Capital's data-driven look at pre-seed funding norms — check sizes, valuations, dilution, and round structures. Useful benchmarking data for founders raising their first institutional round.
Data50: The World's Top Data Startups
Andreessen Horowitz's 2022 list of the 50 most important data startups — a snapshot of the data infrastructure landscape at peak cloud/ML investment. Useful map of which companies a16z thought were winning in data tooling, observability, and analytics.
Token Terminal: Fundamentals for Crypto
Token Terminal provides fundamental financial metrics for crypto protocols — revenue, P/S ratios, TVL, and active users — applying traditional equity analysis frameworks to blockchain-native projects. Useful for evaluating which crypto protocols have real business traction.
DEX Metrics — Dune Analytics Dashboard
A Dune Analytics dashboard tracking decentralized exchange (DEX) volume, market share, and activity across major DeFi protocols. The canonical public resource for comparing Uniswap, SushiSwap, Curve, and other DEX activity in 2022.
DeepDAO — Analytics Dashboard for the DAO Ecosystem
DeepDAO is an analytics dashboard and data platform tracking the DAO ecosystem — governance participation, treasury size, token holder counts, and proposal activity across hundreds of DAOs. The go-to resource for DAO-level metrics in 2022.
The San Francisco Rent Explosion
Priceonomics analysis of San Francisco's rent surge in 2013, showing SOMA as the most expensive neighborhood for a 1BR. Documents the housing cost inflection that accompanied the tech industry's concentration in the city.
Git (and Github) for Data
Open Knowledge Foundation's 2013 post on using Git and GitHub for data versioning — exploring whether the version control model that worked for code could work for datasets. An early articulation of what became the data-as-code movement.
Twitter Powers of Ten
Rob Weir's 2011 post using powers-of-ten framing to characterize Twitter's data and scale properties — from individual tweets to the full firehose. A snapshot of the social media scale conversation before big data tooling became mainstream.
Quandl Python API
Quandl's Python API documentation — the quandl Python library that let researchers pull financial and economic time-series data directly into pandas DataFrames with a single function call. The key practical interface for data scientists using Quandl.
Quandl — Intelligent Search for Numerical Data
Quandl is a search engine for numerical data — financial series, economic indicators, and alternative datasets unified behind a single API. In 2013 it was the go-to free source for quantitative researchers who needed structured time-series data without Bloomberg Terminal access.
GitHub Archive: Daily Repo Reports
GitHub Archive's daily repo reports newsletter from 2012 — an early attempt to surface trending repositories and developer activity from the GitHub firehose. A predecessor to the modern 'GitHub trending' feature and developer discovery tools.
You Earn Facebook an Average of $1.21 Per Quarter
TechCrunch's 2012 analysis showing Facebook earned $1.21 per user per quarter — a baseline figure that reframed the product/user relationship. Published just before Facebook's IPO, it crystallized the 'you are the product' critique.
The Top 10 Fastest-Growing U.S. Industries (Hint: Think Hot Sauce)
Washington Post Wonkblog's 2012 list of the fastest-growing US industries, headlined by hot sauce and other food products. A data snapshot of American economic growth patterns in the early 2010s recovery.