5 engineers on Hacker News describe using dbt first-hand: 2 endorse it, 0 regret it, 2 are mixed.
“For the last two years I've been using dbt for some ETL work. It is quite useful, but at the same time quite ugly and clunky.”
mixed · production · 2 yr · andness · 2022-12-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using dbt for achieving the same goals and it's honestly been a bliss.”
endorse · production · larve · 2022-12-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“dbt's biggest strength is that you can incrementally expand it to fill the gaps in your existing solution”
mixed · production · NortySpock · 2022-12-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“DBT is amazing and I can't recommend it highly enough!”
endorse · production · mjirv · 2019-11-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We run dbt on-prem. Worst that could happen is we don't get any more free updates.”
neutral · production · globular-toast · 2025-10-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?