We built Cursor, but for data transformations (open source)
Details
- External ID
- 47545627
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- We built Cursor, but for data transformations (open source)
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- March 27, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 5
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.1070110701107011
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- creative coding and visual experiments
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- AI feature
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- cursor-like tool for data transformations
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial A VS Code fork or bespoke editor UI paired with an LLM for SQL/Python is achievable, but robust AST parsing, data lineage graph engines, and live query execution sandboxes require deeper systems expertise.
What it would actually take: The architecture involves an Electron/Monaco-based editor or VS Code extension combined with a local LSP server that constructs an in-memory SQL/Python DAG using tools like SQLGlot or DuckDB. The hard part is building reliable semantic diffing and automated data validation test loops across multi-stage transformation graphs without corrupting execution states. A solo vibe coder can build an LLM SQL assistant UI, but reliable interactive lineage execution requires significant compiler and database systems expertise.
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Launched 146 days after the earliest competitor.
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