What if, instead of sharing files, we shared the buttons that generate those files?

When business people need updated data, they come to data engineers. Data engineers click a button to run a program (a query or script) and then send back a file.

But files are dead artifacts. They are fish. And so business people are always reliant on engineers to pull fish out of the water.

Instead, what if engineers could give people fishing poles? That would relieve engineers from having to click buttons all the time. And it would empower business people to get their data whenever they needed it.

File Sharing vs Button Sharing

This is Dropbox. Dropbox stores files. Files are fish.

This is Flank. Flank stores buttons. Buttons are fishing poles.

With Flank, a user can go into the app, click a button, and pull out a file without the usual steps: 1) business person has to ask an engineer for a favor, 2) engineer has to re-run some program, and 3) engineer has to send a file back.

Let me know what you think!