burcs

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by burcs 3y ago
This is really cool, just played around with it a bit but excited to do a deeper dive later. Nice work guys!
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by burcs 3y ago
Yeah, I have never liked that you choose what you are querying before you select the source. I think the formatting here is so much more intuitive.
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by burcs 3y ago
This is a bad take. It's like paying people based on years of experience vs. talent and output.
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by burcs 4y ago
Hey sorry I missed this one earlier, so right now it doesn't work locally, but definitely something we're exploring. Also how would you want backups to work? Would you want us to store those for you? Or I guess if it was local wou
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by burcs 4y ago
This looks great! Send an email to brandon [at] outerbase [dot] com and we can find some time to chat.
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by burcs 4y ago
Really appreciate it! So right now a user can create a query, save it, and share it with their teammate for verification. Their isn’t currently a more automated workflow to do this, but it is something we are definitely exploring.
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by burcs 4y ago
That's a fair comment, If anything them not being locked down makes access to databases easier to connect to Outerbase. I agree that users should learn SQL, even when you use EZQL it returns the actual SQL in a fully-editable IDE that
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by burcs 4y ago
Yeah we had a windows version as well, it was a bit buggy so we decided to launch without it. I'm curious why does use case sound niche? We love to think that giving everyone access to data is a pretty big challenge to solve. Is it in
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by burcs 4y ago
Yeah I get it. We wanted to get a local version out there as it's what a lot of people want, but as you can imagine a full native mac app takes a ton of time to deliver. We thought Electron would be a nice interim until we go down the
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by burcs 4y ago
Yeah we have gone back and forth a lot about the open-source route, and still talk about it frequently. Our target audience is non-technical team members so the thought of open-sourcing didn't make a ton of sense from that standpoint.
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by burcs 4y ago
Right now this is a feature we are offering enterprise sized contracts. We have talked a lot about offering a self-hosted version for others as well though. Completely understand the concerns around data security, that's not something
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by burcs 4y ago
One of our founding developers may or may not have helped build that out at Heroku hahaha. Definitely on the roadmap!
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by burcs 4y ago
I love this! You should definitely bring it back to life, but fully understand the side-project burnout, that's what lead us to build this full-time haha. Completely understand the running on own-infra it's something we offer our
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by burcs 4y ago
Great point — I love the idea of creators vs viewers. We are looking into building out a view-only mode that would be much more affordable. Potentially even embedded experiences so you could share reports internally without needing to actua
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by burcs 4y ago
Appreciate that! So we do have a web app, that you can utilize from anywhere, some have even used their phones, not sure I recommend that experience yet though haha. I need to optimize it more. SQLite should work, I just want to test it mor
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by burcs 4y ago
Thank you – it definitely scratched an itch of mine. I knew my way around a lot of the compute from working at DigitalOcean but wanted to make accessing data/databases easier!
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by burcs 4y ago
First off, that might be the best compliment I have received, I love Panic and all that they do. I hear you, you can use us for free if you are a personal user. Meaning one connection, 5 saved queries, and a one dashboard. However, we want
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by burcs 4y ago
Great question! Our focus is making data easily accessible for your team rather than building out internal dashboards. I'm a big fan of Retool and Basedash and love what they have done, but there's still some initial learnings the
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Launch HN: Outerbase (YC W23) – A new UI and editor for your database
185 points by burcs 4y ago|112 comments
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by burcs 4y ago
We're building www.outerbase.com to support this use case. We're in the latest YC batch and are hoping to do a launch HN in the near future, but would love to hear your thoughts on what we've built if you are up for checking
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by burcs 4y ago
I completely agree, there are enough PaaS out there that run containers, that are much better starting out points, that is until you need and can afford all the intricacies of k8s.