Hi HN, I'm Dave the founder of Chartio (YC'10 now Atlassian Analytics), announcing today dbt Charts, an open source YAML dialect and tool for declaring and rendering dashboards.
When making dashboards with claude or other agents, a lot of free-form artifacts are created that makes it hard to audit and scale. dbt Charts is a simple YAML dialect that declares and renders a chart (think markdown but for dashboards). Along with dbt its Apache 2.0 and launched today.
We hope this language + AI help make the BI space more open with dashboards as concise auditable code. Would love any thoughts and feedback.
fletchrichman•42m ago
This looks great can’t wait to try it out
marojejian•25m ago
Nice to see something built for AI that's supporting both openness and interpretablilty.
mollifier14•11m ago
A beacon of hope between all the vibe coded JS slop charts and dashboards! I love that this creates artifacts that are readable, maintainable and reproduce the same dashboard consistently (deterministically!), just with fresh data.
thingsilearned•57m ago
When making dashboards with claude or other agents, a lot of free-form artifacts are created that makes it hard to audit and scale. dbt Charts is a simple YAML dialect that declares and renders a chart (think markdown but for dashboards). Along with dbt its Apache 2.0 and launched today.
We hope this language + AI help make the BI space more open with dashboards as concise auditable code. Would love any thoughts and feedback.