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Re: Show HN: Arctype, a cross-platform database GUI for developers and teams

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There's a million fancy looking database clients, and yet I'm still using the crappy built-in MySQL Workbench that crashes if you look at it the wrong way. Why? Because I need to be able to do more than just run queries. I need to be able to manage users & permissions, see the current server configuration, kill connections from other clients if necessary, etc. The collaboration features are a nice touch, that certain…

I'm a big fan of Navicat, been using it for years.

https://www.navicat.com/en

Re: Show HN: Arctype, a cross-platform database GUI for developers and teams

#22

>“Why is Arctype built using Electron?” Have you considered transitioning to something that uses the system WebView like Tauri or NeutralinoJS? If you did, what were the blockers?

System Webviews are not a replacement for what Electron provides.

I will, once again, link to the comment on this very site from a Slack engineer who explained why they moved from system provided Webviews to Electron: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18763449

Re: Show HN: Arctype, a cross-platform database GUI for developers and teams

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post #17

There's a million fancy looking database clients, and yet I'm still using the crappy built-in MySQL Workbench that crashes if you look at it the wrong way. Why? Because I need to be able to do more than just run queries. I need to be able to manage users & permissions, see the current server configuration, kill connections from other clients if necessary, etc. The collaboration features are a nice touch, that certain…

MySQL Workbench is indeed a mess. If you're on a Mac, Sequel Ace (formerly Sequel Pro) is great and has all the features you mentioned.

Re: Show HN: Arctype, a cross-platform database GUI for developers and teams

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I just downloaded it to try it out but it connects to like 4 domains on startup and after blocking internet access I cannot continue by clicking "Continue without account". I downloaded 240MiB, it shouldn't need to download any more stuff to run. arctype.com, intercom.io, sentry.io and s3.amazonaws.com. These all happen while the window isn't even loaded on first start. I get that I'm not entitled to anything, but je…

After you create an account or click "continue without an account", all errors/crash reporting can be turned off from the Settings page. In the future, we'll add an option to turn this off in the initial page.

Re: Show HN: Arctype, a cross-platform database GUI for developers and teams

#25
I found out about Arctype a while ago when I started writing for their blog about SQL, a topic I really enjoy. I'd recommend checking out their product if you spend a lot of time in SQL databases: it has tons of cool features, a nice flow & layout, and it might just be your thing.

Re: Show HN: Arctype, a cross-platform database GUI for developers and teams

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post #17

There's a million fancy looking database clients, and yet I'm still using the crappy built-in MySQL Workbench that crashes if you look at it the wrong way. Why? Because I need to be able to do more than just run queries. I need to be able to manage users & permissions, see the current server configuration, kill connections from other clients if necessary, etc. The collaboration features are a nice touch, that certain…

MySQL Workbench is indeed a mess. If you're on a Mac, Sequel Ace (formerly Sequel Pro) is great and has all the features you mentioned.

+1 for Sequel Ace. It's fantastic.

Re: Show HN: Arctype, a cross-platform database GUI for developers and teams

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Neat product. I think that dynamic UIs for general purpose databases is an underexplored space, I'm happy to see another entrant. How does it compare to Ultorg [0] [1]?

[0]: homepage: https://www.ultorg.com/

[1]: 10m video: https://www.hytradboi.com/2022/ultorg-a-user-interface-for-r...

Re: Show HN: Arctype, a cross-platform database GUI for developers and teams

#28
I think it's a bit weird to compare yourself to Postman rather than Metabase which is in your space. However Metabase is fully about visualization instead of editing data directly, which is extremely dangerous on a tool like this.

How focused are you on providing top notch visualizations such as maps with pins using OSM or custom GeoJSON maps, and other more dynamic type of data vis?

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