<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: ibains</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=ibains</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2026 01:51:00 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=ibains" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ibains in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2025)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Prophecy.io | Think Cursor for Data Analysts | US (onsite SF, remote)
 Prophecy is used by data engineers in the largest enterprises (SeriesB, $120M raised). Our new product for data analysts is agentic and multi-modal (docs, low-code, code).
- AI Research Engineer - AI Agentic Software Engineer
Looking for top tier AI engineers who are excited to ship products at tremendous pace
email me - raj at prophecy dot io</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2025 15:19:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44171024</link><dc:creator>ibains</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44171024</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44171024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ibains in "Prophecy – a replacement for modern data stack, raises Series B"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Prophecy.io will be the way everyone does data transformation soon, just a zero compromise solution that beats legacy ETL and code by miles</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 11 Oct 2023 16:39:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37846738</link><dc:creator>ibains</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37846738</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37846738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ibains in "FedNow Is Live"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yes, but in addition to being ACID compliant (serializable ANSI), you need to support a million transactions per second - it’s not just about data size.</p>
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<p>Why is this just not ETL, why do you need anything here? There is no new category or product needed here.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 08 Jul 2023 19:39:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36647985</link><dc:creator>ibains</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36647985</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36647985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ibains in "Langchain Is Pointless"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That’s assuming you’re not using low-code. There are inbuilt connectors to read data, transform data, read/write to pinecone, make api calls to LLMs. It is much faster to prototype with Prophecy.io</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 08 Jul 2023 19:26:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36647847</link><dc:creator>ibains</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36647847</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36647847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ibains in "Langchain Is Pointless"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It is pointless - LlamaIndex and LangChain are re-inventing ETL - why use them when you have robust technology already?<p>1. You ETL your documents into a vector database - you run this pipeline everyday to keep it up to date. You can run scalable, robust pipelines on Spark for this.<p>2. You have a streaming inference pipeline that has components that make API calls (agents) and between them transform data. This is Spark streaming.<p>Prophecy is working with large enterprises to implement generative AI use cases, but they don’t talk so much on HN.<p>Here’s our talk from Data+AI Summit: Build a Generative AI App on Enterprise Data in 13 Minutes <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1exLfT-b-GM">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1exLfT-b-GM</a><p>Here’s a blog/demo 
<a href="https://www.prophecy.io/blog/prophecy-generative-ai-platform" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.prophecy.io/blog/prophecy-generative-ai-platform</a>...</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 08 Jul 2023 17:08:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36646360</link><dc:creator>ibains</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36646360</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36646360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ibains in "LlamaIndex: Unleash the power of LLMs over your data"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yes but this is just ETL - LlamaIndex and LangChain are re-inventing it - why use them when you have robust technology already?<p>1. You ETL your documents into a vector database - you run this pipeline everyday to keep it up to date. You can run scalable, robust pipelines on Spark for this.<p>2. You have a streaming inference pipeline that has components that make API calls (agents) and between them transform data. This is Spark streaming.<p>Prophecy is working with large enterprises to implement generative AI use cases, but they don’t talk so much on HN. Here’s our talk from Data+AI Summit:<p>Build a Generative AI App on Enterprise Data in 13 Minutes<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1exLfT-b-GM">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1exLfT-b-GM</a><p>Here’s a blog/demo<p><a href="https://www.prophecy.io/blog/prophecy-generative-ai-platform-applications-on-enterprise-data-built-in-hours" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.prophecy.io/blog/prophecy-generative-ai-platform...</a></p>
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<p>A lot of B2B startups can technically the cloud API to provide value added applications to Enterprises, but often the banks and healthcare companies will not want their data running through startups pipes to OpenAI pipes.<p>We provide a low code data transformation product (prophecy.io), and we’ll never close sales at any volume, if we have a to get an MSA that approves this. Might get easier if we become large :)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 11 May 2023 18:37:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35906359</link><dc:creator>ibains</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35906359</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35906359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ibains in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2023)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Prophecy (prophecy.io) | ML Engineer | Palo Alto, CA<p>Work on LLMs and Knowledge Graphs fir English -> ETL data pipelines<p>You should have previous experience in NLP and solid programming. Shipping a project from scratch is important.<p>If you have only worked at large companies on tuning a small cog, it will not work<p>reach out to raj@</p>
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<p><a href="https://www.prophecy.io/blog/announcing-prophecy-3-0-low-code-sql-transformations" rel="nofollow">https://www.prophecy.io/blog/announcing-prophecy-3-0-low-cod...</a></p>
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<p>are you serious? they invested in US Treasuries, the highest rated and the most conservative asset class.<p>Banks are in the business of lending money to home buyers, etc - how is loaning to the US Govt. criminal?<p>They have a cash crunch due to interest rate rise, and VC slowdown - bad risk management, but everything is above board.<p>Startup lines of credit should not happen from deposits, too risky an asset class</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 12 Mar 2023 07:07:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35117572</link><dc:creator>ibains</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35117572</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35117572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ibains in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2023)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Prophecy.io | Software Architect | Palo Alto, CA<p>Expert in Spark, Spark internals or Expert in Query Compilers.<p>Level variable (2-20 yrs exp), prefer 10+ years<p>Prophecy.io | Data Engineer | Palo Alto, CA<p>Expert in writing Spark code and running Spark at scale with substantial production and performance improvement experience. Work with our customers and help product design.<p>Level variable (2-10 yrs exp), prefer 5+ years<p>send mail to raj@prophecy.io</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2023 18:51:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34221997</link><dc:creator>ibains</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34221997</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34221997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ibains in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2022)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Prophecy.io | Customer Success Director | Palo Alto, CA<p>We’re a game changing low-code data engineering platform, replacing ETL tools and modernizing the modern data stack.<p>You know data engineering well, have excellent customer facing experience (consulting works). You will work with our enterprise customers, coordinating with our strong data engineers to make the customers successful. Be their trusted advisor, no upsell responsibility.<p>email: raj@prophecy.io</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 02 Sep 2022 06:23:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32687242</link><dc:creator>ibains</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32687242</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32687242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ibains in "Six programming languages I’d like to see"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Its not public language, but at Risk Management Systems, I worked on Contract Definition Language- an external DSL for computable insurance, re-insurance contracts. This was used to simulate insurance losses when catastrophic events happen (earthquake, hurricane)</p>
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<p>Thank god solving customer problems has taken over the tech-ceo job, starting with tech is usually a bad idea, even when it is innovative (crypto-ponzi as an example)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 26 Jun 2022 18:53:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31886766</link><dc:creator>ibains</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31886766</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31886766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ibains in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2022)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Prophecy.io | Customer Success Lead | InPerson Palo Alto
We have customers from midsize to Fortune 500 relying on us for Data Engineering. We’re building out our success organization to onboard, enable and guide the customers. We do have a top notch data engineers in the team, need leadership. Level is flexible.<p>send message to raj @ prophecy.io, only primary candidates, thanks!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jun 2022 03:14:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31590905</link><dc:creator>ibains</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31590905</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31590905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ibains in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2022)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Prophecy.io is hiring a technical content writer in our marketing org. Requires data engineering, spark knowledge, good communication and writing skills and desire to move toward product marketing - the most in demand skill right now!
 Based out of our Palo Alto office, full time, good compensation, benefits.<p>send mail to raj @ prophecy.io</p>
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<p>Article URL: <a href="https://www.prophecy.io/blogs/prophecy-seriesa-funding">https://www.prophecy.io/blogs/prophecy-seriesa-funding</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30013658">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30013658</a></p>
<p>Points: 5</p>
<p># Comments: 0</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 20 Jan 2022 19:39:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://www.prophecy.io/blogs/prophecy-seriesa-funding</link><dc:creator>ibains</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30013658</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30013658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ibains in "Using an ETL framework vs. writing yet another ETL script"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>We’re very different from the ETL tools in that we’re bring software development best practices to data.<p>When you do visual drag and drop - prophecy is generating high quality code on git that is 100% open source (spark, airflow), you have tests and CI/CD - so you’re visually doing solid data engineering.<p>You can toggle between code and visual - so if you change the code (some), the visual graph updates - so small edits directly to git don’t break the visual layer.<p>All visual components are generated from a spec - think a Spark function with a some more info. So the data platform teams will create their own library/framework and roll it out to the wider teams. How it works us that in the visual editor, you start with standard Spark library, but can load visual components for delta, or encryption or data quality.<p>Our customers are typically fed up of these ETL tools and moving to us. We can also import the ETL formats (AbInitio, Informatica, …) in an automated way (we reverse engineered their formats and created source to source compilers)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 17 Dec 2021 20:56:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29598244</link><dc:creator>ibains</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29598244</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29598244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ibains in "Using an ETL framework vs. writing yet another ETL script"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Prophecy.io let’s you create visual components from any Spark function. Same with Airflow. So you can use standard components (built-in or your new ones) without being restricted.<p>Founder here - we’re working to solve this exact problem.</p>
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