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mikenikles
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About mikenikles
25 years of helping businesses from 0 to 1. Now building my own product to do it all over again, solo.
Excellent developer experience leads to excellent customer experience.
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I did that too[1], twice[2] :-). [1] https://seaquel.app [2] https://github.com/webstonehq/tuxedo
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Comment #48829206
Creator of Orchestrator here. Two things I want to share and ideally get feedback on: 1) Horizontal scaling via workers 2) Flow tasks as executable plugins written in any language …
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Comment #48104360
Thank you for the feedback and bug report! The bug is fixed in version 2026.5.5. I also added a `/` command in a todo's input field to add metadata more visually. There's also a ne…
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Ask HN: Who Uses a todo.txt?
I've gone full circle at least two or three times in my life when it comes to todo apps. Where I end up every time I tried all apps and processes is a todo.txt file, based on the h…
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Comment #47787981
Of course it is :).
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Comment #47758368
A database client better than Datagrip is a tough one, yet I'm attempting to do just that [1] :). I'm in month 4 of development, working on it full-time. [1] https://seaquel.app
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Comment #47746600
Month 4 of building a data management platform called Seaquel [1]. Months 1-3 were about building a desktop client. Now I'm working on a server binary customers can optionally self…
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Comment #47714434
I added an interactive demo to my product's landing page [1], thinking people would prefer that over yet another product video. However, your comment hit me... :-) I'm going to rec…
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Comment #47670315
Oh wait... haha your source doesn't match your professional experience :). My offer still stands though.
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Comment #47670296
How about this counter offer? I give you 50% of the revenue for any sale you make for https://seaquel.app . If you tell me we need a lifetime offer, consider it done.
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Comment #47445696
I'm curious what you think of https://seaquel.app as a DataGrip alternative. It's a project I'm working on to build a database management product I've always wanted. I spend way to…
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Comment #47307690
I build Seaquel, the database client I've always wished I had. It's open source, works offline and doesn't track what you do. It has a visual query builder and separate SQL tutoria…
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Comment #39699983
How does it compare to the existing Devbox project ( https://www.jetpack.io/devbox )? Does Flox have an optional cloud solution as well? Can Flox install specific versions of Nix p…
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Comment #37058618
I've spent the last year managing all my packages with Devbox ( https://github.com/jetpack-io/devbox ). Local dev, cloud dev, CI, production – all with the same config file. Finger…
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Comment #36593411
https://www.mikenikles.com/ Best to follow me on Twitter or Bluesky though for up-to-date full-stack web development opinions.
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Comment #36414907
Local first, cloud optional is the only way (IMHO) we're going to get people off their local laptop development setups. We need to support local dev environments first, with the ex…
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Comment #33912418
What about multi-region for anyone who has a remote team?