Launch HN: Castodia (YC W20) – Populate Google Sheets from databases

Hey HN, we’re Jimmy and Ayazhan, founders of Castodia ( https://www.castodia.com ). We help pull data from databases directly into Google Sheets. It’s basically a live database connector for Google Sheets that allows for data refreshes. Before we started working on this, we were working on an idea around data pipelines. It didn’t take off so we had to pivot mid-batch. We had less than 1 month to do user interviews, build our product, get it approved, and launch it. To start with, we knew we wanted to stay in the data space. We spent the first week talking to over 30 people at different companies. In those conversations, we noticed that sales, marketing, and operations teams constantly need to ask developers to help them export data from the database and often have to submit follow-on data requests because they forgot to add a dimension needed for analysis (they often do this by

Kind

startup

Status

Shut down

Inventor

jimmyechan

Ended

2020

Source

hackernews