Can this connect to private/internal databases?
Launch HN: Outerbase (YC W23) – A new UI and editor for your database
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Re: Launch HN: Outerbase (YC W23) – A new UI and editor for your database
#12Looks promising, and approaching the quality of Panic's Mac products. But then I saw it's subscriptionware. Nope. I don't use subscriptionware for my personal computing. And the billion-dollar healthcare company I work for doesn't do software subscription unless you're Microsoft, or similarly indispensable. Startups need not apply. At least the pricing is clear and mostly visible, except for the enterprise tier. Much…
Can you describe how this software could sustainably be developed to serve you, and where you would fit in to that ecosystem?
How would someone who makes software to help you interact with your database and write queries using AI buy food and pay rent, if they didn’t already have money?
Are you implying that if their software was open source, with a self-hostable version, you would use that, and contribute back to the community, which would provide them some service value?
Re: Launch HN: Outerbase (YC W23) – A new UI and editor for your database
#13Oh man I kind of built something like this. I took the project down because I got semi-burned out while also having a full time job. I have a video still up at https://github.com/aidmin-io/docs. Feedback on HN was that companies wouldn't trust it unless they could run it in their own infra, but clearly there is a huge need with BaseDash and now another similar company funded by YC.
Re: Launch HN: Outerbase (YC W23) – A new UI and editor for your database
#14- Fantastic concept, looks absolutely promising!
- I never do monthly subscriptions!
- I never do Mac-only!
- SQLite missing for now (and I wonder how it would be accessed by Outerbase?)
Re: Launch HN: Outerbase (YC W23) – A new UI and editor for your database
#15Regarding pricing: do you offer monthly subscriptions for "view-only" users?
Here's my use-case. I am fine paying $50 a month for someone to make dashboards, create queries, etc.
However, that's too much (and significantly above other tools) for the "users" of the product: for example, salespeople who I would like to enable to see what products their customers have used. I'd expect something in the 10-20 range per head per month for them, in exchange for more limited functionality.
Some companies solve for this by charging for "creators" (dashboard designers, the people who set up the database connection, or run more custom queries) versus viewers. This encourages broader adoption within a company. $50/mo for any type of user is pretty steep.
Re: Launch HN: Outerbase (YC W23) – A new UI and editor for your database
#16Can this connect to private/internal databases?
Currently we allow databases to whitelist our IP address and access from anywhere.
For internal databases we do offer VPN and on-prem (Dockerized) solutions for our enterprise customers.
Private databases that are on localhost we don't _currently_ support on our native Mac app but it's on our roadmap!
Re: Launch HN: Outerbase (YC W23) – A new UI and editor for your database
#17Regarding pricing: do you offer monthly subscriptions for "view-only" users? Here's my use-case. I am fine paying $50 a month for someone to make dashboards, create queries, etc. However, that's too much (and significantly above other tools) for the "users" of the product: for example, salespeople who I would like to enable to see what products their customers have used. I'd expect something in the 10-20 range per he…
This is the major problem we have with Retool. We have a handful of creators and hundreds of end-users (customer service, sales) where we're paying $50 each. Will inevitably tip the balance back to building these high usage apps by hand.
Re: Launch HN: Outerbase (YC W23) – A new UI and editor for your database
#18This is awesome—I love that you're building a tool that makes something that was previously scoped to a 'developer' tool available for regular users. Something like this for querying internal data would be a gamechanger for folks who struggle with SQL but need user insights!
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!
Re: Launch HN: Outerbase (YC W23) – A new UI and editor for your database
#19Looks promising, and approaching the quality of Panic's Mac products. But then I saw it's subscriptionware. Nope. I don't use subscriptionware for my personal computing. And the billion-dollar healthcare company I work for doesn't do software subscription unless you're Microsoft, or similarly indispensable. Startups need not apply. At least the pricing is clear and mostly visible, except for the enterprise tier. Much…
Can you describe how this software could sustainably be developed to serve you, and where you would fit in to that ecosystem? How would someone who makes software to help you interact with your database and write queries using AI buy food and pay rent, if they didn’t already have money? Are you implying that if their software was open source, with a self-hostable version, you would use that, and contribute back to th…
By selling perpetual per-seat licenses and an integration contract, same as everybody else who works with corporations. It’s not exactly novel. Software existed before subscriptions.
I don’t think the GP comment mentioned open source in any way.
Re: Launch HN: Outerbase (YC W23) – A new UI and editor for your database
#20Oh man I kind of built something like this. I took the project down because I got semi-burned out while also having a full time job. I have a video still up at https://github.com/aidmin-io/docs . Feedback on HN was that companies wouldn't trust it unless they could run it in their own infra, but clearly there is a huge need with BaseDash and now another similar company funded by YC. HN Post: https://news.ycombinator.…
Why not restart your project? What are you scared of? HN comments? No funding?
As an open-source solution you can a have higher chance of succeeding and a higher retention rate than proprietary ones. You can raise a seed round just as they did
Feel free to e-mail me, I have sold a open-source startup in the past and co-founded another last year