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Thanks for catching this, should be fixed. It was a PNG because I forgot to compress it after making the image!

Hi HN! We just shipped the public beta of the hosted version of Mathesar, our open source “intuitive spreadsheet UI, full PostgreSQL power” project. Until now, using Mathesar meant…

If you like Mathesar’s approach but need to work with MySQL, FDWs would let you connect a MySQL database to Mathesar for data entry and querying. This could be useful if you also h…

As a side note, we _are_ considering adding support for other database backends through Postgres foreign data wrappers: https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Foreign_data_wrappers . If …

NocoDB is a universal database GUI that supports multiple backends, while Mathesar is Postgres-only but deeply integrated with its native features, like using Postgres roles and pr…

Thank you! Where would you need to hide these fields? If you had some time, it would be great if you could make a GitHub issue with more details about your use case! https://github…

I think they're pretty different use cases. LibreOffice Base and Kexi are desktop database frontends focused on local databases, while Mathesar is web-based, self-hosted, can be co…

We don't have the capacity to do that internally, but we were thinking about having a "Community Guides" section of our docs where people could contribute guides to setting up Math…

Just a heads-up, I’m opinionated on this! Every app has some terminology you need to learn to use it effectively, we just think that terminology should actually map to how database…

Ultorg is awesome! Eirik (Ultorg's founder) and I compare notes every once in a while. :)

If you're referring to the line count being omitted here: https://github.com/mathesar-foundation/mathesar/graphs/contr... , please submit your feedback to the GitHub product team, …

Well, we're a nonprofit, we don't have investors :) Also, I'm pretty sure any investor who cared about commit counts would be a terrible investor.

Yep, AGPL can run alongside proprietary services without issues, and if you host it without modifications, you don’t have to share anything. But if you modify it and make it availa…

Thank you! And yeah, I understand your gripe. The tagline is meant to convey the general idea of "editing data in a table UI without a lot of clicks or keystrokes" in the fewest nu…

Yeah, I understand why that would be a concern. For what it's worth, our schemas are completely isolated and never touch any other data. We use them to store our DB functions and c…

We don't have any ability to customize UIs yet, although we're certainly open to feature requests. We do have a "Record Page" for each individual record that shows a tabular view o…

I think it was termites. But they built a huge spaceship.

Mathesar doesn’t cache any database state, it always reflects the live structure of the database. If you run migrations through SQLAlchemy or Django, Mathesar will just show the da…

sixdimensional covered this pretty well, but just to reiterate, I believe DBeaver is primarily a desktop app aimed at a technical audience. Mathesar is web-based and designed to ha…

Never give up, never surrender!

Here's some background info on our current funding: https://mathesar.org/blog/2024/03/28/mathesar-foundation-ann... We're working on multiple options for sustainability, both the t…

Yep, Mathesar is GPLv3, not AGPL, so there’s no issue running it alongside proprietary services. Companies can absolutely use Mathesar as a standalone service in their stack withou…

This is one of the things we're actively considering working on soon! It's mentioned in the "What's next?" section of our beta release announcement: https://mathesar.org/blog/2025/…