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TamedTable: Open-Source AI ETL With a Forkable Spec

TamedTable is an open-source LLM harness for data ETL built using AI. The full specification is on GitHub, letting you regenerate or fork the entire codebase.

TamedTable is an open-source LLM harness for data ETL. You describe your pipeline in plain English; it handles extraction, transformation, and loading.

  • Repo: github.com/ZSvedic/TamedTable — full specification included
  • Show HN: posted by ZeljkoS, 7 points, 4 comments
  • Built with AI: the entire spec is shared so you can regenerate or modify the codebase to your needs
  • Live site: tamedtable.com

The meta angle is the real draw. The developer shared the full specification on GitHub, meaning you can feed it back into an LLM and regenerate the tool — or fork the spec and adapt it for your own data pipeline. This is vibe coding applied to data infrastructure: the spec is the source of truth, not the code.

It sits in a growing lane of AI-driven data tools. Dataherald AI tackled natural-language-to-SQL on Show HN in 2023 with 215 points. TamedTable’s differentiator isn’t the ETL capability — it’s the open, regenerable spec that lets you fork the entire project from its specification.

NOTE

Show HN engagement was thin — 7 points, 4 comments. Treat this as an early-stage experiment, not a production-ready ETL platform.

Repo: github.com/ZSvedic/TamedTable. Live tool: tamedtable.com.