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BYA few months ago, we launched Dives : interactive React data apps that run live SQL queries against your MotherDuck data, built by your favorite AI.
Since then, something pretty cool happened. Folks inside MotherDuck started building Dives for everything : internal metrics, data explorations, quick analyses you'd normally throw into a notebook and forget about. But it didn't stop there. Our customers started building incredible Dives too!
And every time someone shared one internally, the reaction was the same: "Wait, can I send this to someone outside the org?"
Today, the answer is yes. The Dive Gallery is live.
If you missed the original launch, Dives are interactive data applications that live inside MotherDuck. Think of them as lightweight React apps that query your data in real-time using SQL. You just need to prompt what you need through our MCP and the AI will build your dive.
Here's what makes them different from your typical dashboard:
Until now, Dives lived inside your MotherDuck workspace. Great for your team, but not so great when you wanted to show something to the outside world.
The Dive Gallery changes that. You now have two options:
The flow is straightforward:
unrestricted share at creation or alter existing share)When someone opens your Dive link, they see a fully interactive data app. They can click filters, sort tables, drill into charts. The queries run live against the data.
But here's the kicker: the person viewing your Dive from the dive gallery doesn't need to set up anything. No database connection. No credentials. No "please install this driver first." They click the link, and it just works.
You're essentially giving someone a window into your data that they can explore on their own terms, powered by MotherDuck compute under the hood.
Take a look at some of the Dives already in the Gallery:
388M+ total downloads, refreshed every day. Weekly trends, breakdowns by Python version, DuckDB version, OS — all live. This is the kind of data that usually lives in a stale spreadsheet somewhere. Not anymore.
Who said Dives have to be serious? This one is a fun interactive quiz to test your knowledge of DuckDB and MotherDuck — with a bonus "Duck Facts" category for the truly curious. The quiz questions are auto-generated from a MotherDuck table pulling from the docs. Proof that Dives can be anything, not just dashboards.
This one's wild — a full pivot table and dashboarding tool built entirely as a Dive. Pick any table from your databases, drag columns into rows/columns/values, choose your chart type. It's basically a lightweight BI tool running on MotherDuck compute.
Here's a quick demo showing what it looks like to browse a Dive in the gallery, interact with the data, and open the unique full-screen link:
Each of these is a live app. Not just a screenshot! And every single one comes with its own unique URL you can share with anyone.
Want to build your own Dive and share it with the world? Head to MotherDuck, create a Dive, and publish it to the Gallery.
Already built something cool? We'd love to see it. Submit it to the dive gallery!
Browse what the community has built so far at motherduck.com/dive-gallery.
Let's see what you build. 🦆
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