Max Musing

When I notice a project dragging, my reflex is always to cut scope. Trim the feature down, ship the smaller version, get something out the door instead of polishing the grand plan forever.

And usually that's the right call. Most of the time I was building more than the problem actually needed, and cutting it loose feels great.

Side note: We're live on Product Hunt today with our Slack Data Agent!

Export to Excel

You can now export to Excel (.xlsx) anywhere you could already export data. Charts, tables, markdown tables, and in-browser record views all get a native Excel option right alongside CSV, so the data you pull out of Basedash lands in a real spreadsheet formatted columns and all instead of a raw text file you have to clean up first.

A question we get from customers (and occasionally from investors) is why we don't expose a model picker the way Cursor does.

The short answer is that we're building for a different user. Cursor's users are developers; picking between GPT-5 and Claude is a meaningful choice they're equipped to make. Our users include CFOs, sales leaders, customer success reps. For them, model choice is friction at best, and at worst a new vector for self-doubt. A marketing director second-guessing a revenue number because they're not sure whether they picked the right model is exactly the failure mode we're trying to design out of analytics.