As of Now
Builds fake-but-realistic sample data (customers, orders, dates) for demos and testing, and keeps the dates current automatically so old demos never look stale.
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Description
If you've ever run a product demo where every date said "2023" and every fake customer was named "Test User 1", you know the problem: sample data goes stale fast, and building believable fake data by hand takes real time. As of Now solves this by generating realistic, connected datasets — customers linked to orders linked to products — and refreshing the dates in that data automatically so a demo built months ago still shows "yesterday" and "last week" correctly.
As of Now is a no-code demo-data generation platform: you define a data model visually (no SQL required), and it produces relational datasets that stay temporally current across regenerations while keeping consistent IDs and cross-references. Exports are available in XLSX, CSV, JSON, and SQL formats, unlimited even on the free tier. It's aimed at sales teams running product demos, developers prototyping against realistic data, and QA teams needing repeatable test fixtures.
💬 Our review
The short version: if your team keeps hand-rolling spreadsheets of fake customers for demos or tests, As of Now's free tier (3 models, 50k rows, unlimited exports, no card needed) is worth trying before you build another one manually — just know it's still in beta.
Faker and Mockaroo are the obvious comparisons, but both are lower-level — you get random field generators, not a maintained relational model that auto-refreshes its own dates. That auto-refresh is As of Now's actual differentiator: a demo you build once keeps looking freshly-generated forever, instead of visibly aging every time you reopen it. The catch is the roadmap is unfinished — the Pro plan (CLI access, AI-generated long-form text, larger row limits) is listed as "coming soon" rather than live, so anyone needing more than 50k rows or programmatic access today will be waiting on that.
📊 Global score
🤖 AI-enriched data
Plan Gratuit : 0$/mois sans carte bancaire (3 modèles sauvegardés, jusqu'à 50 000 lignes par modèle, exports illimités XLSX/CSV/JSON/SQL). Plan Pro : 19$/mois (à venir — CLI, texte IA, modèles illimités, jusqu'à 250 000 lignes).
Pros
Interface visuelle sans SQL requise
Dates toujours actuelles, régénération automatique
Exports illimités même sur le plan gratuit
Cohérence relationnelle maintenue entre enregistrements
Cons
Encore en phase bêta
Plan gratuit limité à 3 modèles et 50 000 lignes
Plan Pro (CLI, IA) pas encore disponible