Hi HN, I’m Ben, one of the founders of Equals. Equals is a new spreadsheet with native connections to databases, data warehouses, and other data sources.

Today, we’re launching a new data source: CSVs. With this release, you can turn any CSV into a mini database, queryable with SQL or our query builder. This lets you use Equals with large internal or public datasets that we don’t have connections to. Once set up you can share your CSV “mini database” with anyone on your team, and upload new versions of the CSV over time.

Under the hood this feature is powered by DuckDB (https://duckdb.org/). We were impressed with performance and with how easy it was to build.

I shared our launch of dashboards (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34805132) a couple of weeks ago. The feedback was super helpful.

We’re still early and would love any feedback from the community.

Ben