Founder here ... there's plenty of reasons why. > I don't understand why you would ever pay for this? One big one is ease of use and convenience. If you're us

Founder here ... there's plenty of reasons why. > I don't understand why you would ever pay for this? One big one is ease of use and convenience. If you're using a cloud database (Heroku Postgres, Amazon RDS, etc) then JackDB is the fastest and easiest way to start running queries. With Heroku in particular we have OAuth integration so you can list your data sources and connect in just a couple mouse clicks. Add to that additional features like never losing your work (close the browser, reopen it, and keep scrolling your query), sharing SQL among your team, and a full audit trail of all activity and you have a product that people will (and do) pay for. > If you need a web based database gui, what's wrong with the hundreds of free versions? Obviously I might be a bit biased but I think JackDB is the best database GUI there is. We've been using it ourselves to develop JackDB for quite a while now (i.e. dog fooding). > And it comes free with the non scary part of giving someone else your database access. Security is a big deal and there is definitely a trust factor involved in using something like this (or more generally any other cloud data service). We try to be as open as possible about how we handle security and crypto on our site. Still though, when you consider that the vast majority of people using it are already outsourcing the maintenance of their database to a cloud provider the leap of faith to using JackDB isn't as large as you think it is.