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       Show HN: Moose - OSS framework to build analytical back ends with
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       Author : okane
       Score  : 65 points
       Date   : 2025-04-23 16:41 UTC (6 hours ago)
        
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       | vlokshin wrote:
       | Impressive team behind this. Excited to see what they cook up.
        
       | justingdelisle wrote:
       | This is sick, insane shipping speed from these guys
        
       | Callicles wrote:
       | Founder here. Thanks for the interest! We built Moose because we
       | were tired of the complexity involved in setting up and
       | maintaining data pipelines.
       | 
       | What makes Moose different is how it simplifies the entire
       | workflow - from ingestion to processing to serving data through
       | APIs. We've found teams spend too much time wiring together
       | different tools rather than focusing on the actual data insights.
       | 
       | The local development experience was a big focus for us. You can
       | instantly test your changes with real data without waiting for
       | deployments. And we've made sure the same code runs identically
       | in production to eliminate those frustrating "works on my
       | machine" moments.
       | 
       | Happy to answer any questions about our technical approach or how
       | we're handling specific use cases. We're particularly interested
       | in hearing about pain points you've experienced with existing
       | data systems or any feedback you might have on Moose.
        
         | Zephyr314 wrote:
         | Do you guys have examples of people actually using this in
         | production? I'm curious how it scales beyond dev.
        
           | Callicles wrote:
           | We are currently in Production on Boreal
           | https://www.fiveonefour.com/boreal, our hosting solution for
           | Moose with F45 https://f45training.com, a global studio
           | fitness studio brand. We wrote a case study with them here:
           | https://www.fiveonefour.com/blog/case-study-f45. So we Have a
           | 24/7 consumer facing deployment that we have been running for
           | the last 5 months.
           | 
           | We are going towards 1.0 from an API perspective, we have
           | just landed what we internally call DMV2 which is the latest
           | iteration of the abstraction level for the api. Think SST /
           | Terraform CDK vertically integrated for Data.
           | 
           | If you are looking to work with Moose in production we would
           | love to chat with you :)
        
           | f45_greg wrote:
           | Hi Zephyr! I'm the Head of Engineering at F45 Training. We
           | had early access to moose, and we've been using it in
           | production since last year with thousands of our members. We
           | use moose to manage the backend for LionHeart - our heart
           | rate tracking system in studio. We also use Moose's paid
           | hosting service called Boreal. It's a new product so still a
           | bit rough around the edges - but it has scaled really well
           | for us and the 514 Team has been terrific.
        
         | wiradikusuma wrote:
         | Does it support Timescale(DB)?
        
           | Callicles wrote:
           | Not yet, but if you are interested in using we could chat and
           | add support for it. We want to expand support eventually for
           | all major OLAP provider.
        
       | tripti_mishra wrote:
       | Honestly, I was just so over the nonstop ETL and data wrangling
       | grind. I just wanted to build stuff that actually shows results
       | and not waste half my day setting up pipelines. That's how I
       | ended up using Moose in one of my prototypes. It's been awesome
       | seeing it cut through the noise and let me skip the annoying
       | setup so I can get straight to building features that actually
       | matter. Cool stuff - cheers!
        
       | Platanitos wrote:
       | Very cool, going to try this in our next internal build sprint :)
        
       | ariforu wrote:
       | I think Moose is onto something--it simplifies data pipelines by
       | abstracting away the complexity. I really like it. Very clever!
        
       | Zephyr314 wrote:
       | Very cool to see what used to take a team years to build in a
       | simple, intuitive OSS package. Getting a stack like this up and
       | running in 20 lines of python out of the box would have been
       | unthinkable 10 years ago. Congrats to the team. Can't wait to see
       | where you take this!
        
       | tnolet wrote:
       | I'd brand this OS Tinybird.
        
         | Callicles wrote:
         | ;)
        
       | Ankitstwt wrote:
       | Impressive work done by Team!
        
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