Show HN: Duckle a drag-and-drop visual pipeline designer

Category: devtools

Tags: data-pipeline, etl, visual-studio, duckdb, ai-assistant, local-first

Score: 7.8/10 (Innovation: 7, Technical: 8, Documentation: 8, Utility: 8)

Duckle is an open-source, local-first desktop ETL/ELT studio with a drag-and-drop pipeline designer and a built-in AI assistant that runs entirely on the CPU. It compiles visual pipelines to SQL executed via DuckDB, offering 290+ connectors and 50+ transforms in a single ~65 MB binary. Its innovative combination of on-device AI, visual pipeline editing, and native performance makes it a compelling alternative to cloud-based data tools.

Target audience: data engineers, data analysts, backend devs, data scientists

Repository: https://github.com/slothflowlabs/duckle · Rust · Apache-2.0 · 584 stars

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