CRO and Cofounder of Galaxy

Garrett Wolfe  • Peerlist

SummaryGalaxy is the Cursor for SQL, purpose built for software engineers, data practitioners, and more. The Galaxy experience starts with a next-generation SQL editor: lightning-fast, memory-light, and packed with practical features - AI copilot, collaborative sharing &amp; permissions, and top notch security. To start, we’re focused on perfecting the daily workflow of writing, running, and collaborating on SQL in a modern editor experience.Pain Points:We built Galaxy after drowning in the same set of headaches:<ol><li>Queries everywhere – SQL lives in Slack, BI folders, dusty Git repos, and copy-pasted Notion pages.</li><li>Never-ending data requests – because no one can find (or trust) the right query, engineers and analysts still field endless one-offs.</li><li>LLM Roulette - Generic ChatGPT answers miss schema nuance, and letting non-technical users paste SQL from a chatbot is a compliance nightmare.</li></ol>The collaborative editor is just the beginning. From it we’re building a unified data platform that will:<ol><li>Version &amp; Govern every query, dataset, and dashboard in one searchable hub.</li><li>Serve Data Anywhere by turning approved queries into live APIs, webhooks, and notebooks.</li><li>Empower Everyone with trusted building blocks—so business users can self-serve without derailing engineers.</li></ol>Think of it as “data-platform-in-a-box”: start with the editor you already love, grow into the full stack when you’re ready.FeaturesGalaxy’s base product - the SQL editor, has been reimagined from the ground up to be modern, lightning fast, and not eat your computer’s memory / battery. It is a beautiful desktop app (with a cloud offering for those who like web). We’ve reworked parameterization, auto-complete, and even table metadata to make data discovery and analysis much more reliable and convenient for developers.Galaxy’s AI copilot is context-aware - meaning you can write complex SQL queries accurately, optimize queries, change queries when the underlying data model changes, and even chat directly with your database to learn about it.Galaxy Collections - allow users within the same Workspace to create an organized view through which they can share and collaborate on queries of the same type, project and more. Collections also enable teams to “Endorse” queries so that a team know when a query has been endorsed as correct by the relevant stakeholders. This removes the needs for teams to share SQL queries in Slack, Notion, GSheets, etc.Galaxy also has modern access controls and security - meaning things like permissioning and user types, run / edit history, read / write access and more are all accessible and within reach.RoadmapDown the line, Galaxy will enable teams to run lightweight visualization out of the box, run recurring workflows, and even serve as a data cataloguing tool.IntegrationsGalaxy connects to all major databases (PostgreSQL, Snowflake, MySQL, and more coming soon), and integrates with tools like GitHub, Slack, Notion, and Airtable. We're adding support for webhooks, REST APIs, and dbt sync in the near future.