The way I think about it is: these are just APIs and data sources. I fetch the data, and then I want to pipeline it and structure it in my own little database, in a way that makes sense to me. Then I can enrich it, expand it, change the schema, query it, build dashboards, apps, whatever (freedom...).
The problem is that every time I started doing this I'd end up yak shaving for days. Which DB? Where do the pipeline files live? How do I productionise cron jobs? I want to make it operational via API and MCP (agentic-friendly semantics built in). Essentially, my vision is to have a dedicated app for each of my departments, but doing this every time is a massive pain, even with a boilerplate.
So... me and my bro built Loony.dev, which is essentially a CLI optimised for your Claude agent, and it does all of this out of the box. Just bring your data sources - deploy your env variables to Loony, and it can pull the data, build the pipelines, set the update schedules and build agentic-ready views with MCP / REST-API out of the box.
Would love to know if this resonates with anybody else? Feels like I was running into this issue every other week and I just gave up because it felt like I was building another tiny startup each time.