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Have you thought about solving the problem from a different direction? Providing a read-only, sanitized clone of the database that can be accessed outside of th
by gerad 4y ago
Have you thought about solving the problem from a different direction? Providing a read-only, sanitized clone of the database that can be accessed outside of the core application code?
Seems like that could kill more birds with the same stone?
- hexedpackets 4y agoWe have thought about that! It's a nice approach for some use cases but having just a read-only copy ends up being pretty limiting. Often people using internal tools (particularly customer success) needs to modify some fields in a record but shouldn't have unrestricted access to everything. We've found that being able to protect specific fields instead of the entire database gives a lot more flexibility.
- pistoriusp 4y agoThat's exactly what we're doing at https://www.snaplet.dev https://www.snaplet.dev, I would love to chat with the founders about offering generated production accurate snapshots for developers to code against for users of their proxy!
- nogenhat 4y agoAre you looking for investment? Happy to close the deal, love that idea so much and trust the co-founders redwoodjs ;-)
- pistoriusp 4y agoUnfortunately not anymore, we have a great set of people backing us, but thanks for the vote of confidence. As an aside: Not exactly sure why the parent is getting down voted.
- hodgesrm 4y agoYeah, that's wierd. I just upvoted you to compensate.
- pistoriusp 4y ago
- dang 4y agoIt's common for startups to hijack competitors' launch threads. Some readers find that distasteful; perhaps that's why there were downvotes. I'm not saying that your post was such a hijack, but it's difficult to interpret these things accurately, so any post of this kind will always land on a spectrum of responses.
- pistoriusp 4y agoIndeed, but IMHO they're very different products if you understand the positioning, which I guess is hard to guage.
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- debussyman 4y agoHappy to chat anytime! You can reach me by email (ryan at [ourdomain]) or book directly on my cal - https://calendly.com/ryan-jump/yc-founder-meeting https://calendly.com/ryan-jump/yc-founder-meeting We've peeked at Snaplet in the past, and :heart: your design aesthetic
- pistoriusp 4y agoThanks! I'm just about to catch a flight, but will reach out when I get back to the land of the living!
- debussyman 4y agoSounds good, travel safe
- acrefoot 4y agoTonic.ai seemed to fit that bill, but we ended up rolling our own ETL job due to cost concerns, and some security preferences for a simple to audit tool to do this. tonic.ai does it on-the-fly, which was merely a nice-to-have for this use case.