Data Analysis for Startups — Free SQL Tool, No Infrastructure

Early-stage startups don’t need a $50K/year analytics platform. You need to query CSVs from Stripe, your CRM, and your product database. PondPilot does that for free, in your browser, with zero infrastructure.

Zero Cost, Zero Infrastructure

PondPilot is free and open source. There’s nothing to deploy, no database to manage, no seats to pay for. Every dollar you save on tools is a dollar for building product.

The Startup Analytics Workflow

  1. Export data from your tools (Stripe, HubSpot, Mixpanel, your database) as CSV
  2. Open PondPilot
  3. Drop the files in and query with SQL
-- Monthly revenue from Stripe export
SELECT
  strftime(created, '%Y-%m') as month,
  SUM(amount / 100.0) as revenue,
  COUNT(*) as transactions
FROM stripe_charges.csv
WHERE status = 'succeeded'
GROUP BY month
ORDER BY month;

Join Data Across Tools

Open your Stripe export alongside your CRM export and answer questions neither tool can answer alone:

SELECT
  c.plan_name,
  COUNT(DISTINCT c.customer_id) as customers,
  SUM(s.amount / 100.0) as total_revenue
FROM crm_customers.csv c
JOIN stripe_charges.csv s ON c.stripe_id = s.customer
GROUP BY c.plan_name;

Better Than Spreadsheets

Your co-founder’s Google Sheet with 47 tabs and broken VLOOKUP formulas is not a data strategy. SQL is readable, reproducible, and scales to larger datasets.

Privacy for Sensitive Business Data

Revenue numbers, customer lists, user metrics — startup data is sensitive. PondPilot processes everything locally in your browser. No SaaS vendor gets access to your business metrics.

When You Outgrow PondPilot

Eventually you’ll want dashboards, scheduled reports, and a proper data warehouse. That’s fine. PondPilot is for the phase where you need answers and don’t have infrastructure. The SQL skills you build here transfer directly to dbt, BigQuery, or whatever you adopt next.

Start Now

Open PondPilot and analyze your startup’s data today.

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