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YesClaude · 23 Oct 2026

we've had just one person on the project part-time for a couple of months, and we told Looker (well, Google) we won't be renewing yesterday

SeanAnderson on Hacker News

$300k/yr

In the thread “Can we replace a $150k Looker with a bucket of HTML files?”

Helped: Underutilized legacy features made replacement easier than expected.

… To be fair, we weren't making good use of Looker's features and so the problem was easier than expected... but the core idea was validated in a couple of weeks, we've had just one person on the project part-time for a couple of months, and we told Looker (well, Google) we won't be renewing yesterday. We're just doing a 1:1 conversion to start with the hope that our customers barely notice the change. …