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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

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Post by burcs »

AlphaGeekZulu wrote: post #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?)

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 more before launching. If you'd be interested in beta testing that with me would love to chat more!

Re: Launch HN: Outerbase (YC W23) – A new UI and editor for your database

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Post by inssein »

ushakov wrote: post #20
inssein wrote: post #13

Oh 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

I think this was sort of the key issue, it wasn't open source, but the docs / website was. Have been thinking of cleaning it up and open sourcing it.

Re: Launch HN: Outerbase (YC W23) – A new UI and editor for your database

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Post by Whiteshadow12 »

AlphaGeekZulu wrote: post #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?)

Do you generally use Annual Plans or freemium instead? Not the author or affiliated with them.

Re: Launch HN: Outerbase (YC W23) – A new UI and editor for your database

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Post by burcs »

mediaman wrote: post #15

Regarding 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…

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 actually log into Outerbase.

Would that solve your use case?

Re: Launch HN: Outerbase (YC W23) – A new UI and editor for your database

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Post by burcs »

inssein wrote: post #13

Oh 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.…

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 enterprise customers as it's a bigger lift on our end as well.

Happy to hop on a call or zoom or whatever to chat through all the challenges we ran into while building this, would love to hear more about aidmin as well!

Re: Launch HN: Outerbase (YC W23) – A new UI and editor for your database

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Post by toomuchtodo »

burcs wrote: post #24
mediaman wrote: post #15

Regarding 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…

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 actually log into Outerbase. Would that solve your use case?

> Potentially even embedded experiences so you could share reports internally without needing to actually log into Outerbase.

Not OP, but this reminds me of Heroku Dataclips and I think you should strongly consider such a product feature.

https://blog.heroku.com/how-dataclips-power-insights-at-hero...

EDIT: Tremendous! Thanks for the reply!

Re: Launch HN: Outerbase (YC W23) – A new UI and editor for your database

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Post by cmbothwell »

From a quick glance this could be the missing piece for going all in on SQLite for small apps. Most plug-in admins only work with remotely accesible databases like Postgres.

How would that work, does Outerbase run locally on my server instance?

If it had some functionality for backups and a nice Auth story it could really be a good side project secret weapon.

Re: Launch HN: Outerbase (YC W23) – A new UI and editor for your database

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Post by ushakov »

inssein wrote: post #22
ushakov wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

I think this was sort of the key issue, it wasn't open source, but the docs / website was. Have been thinking of cleaning it up and open sourcing it.

Didn't notice there were no sources in the repository, but yes, try again!

Re: Launch HN: Outerbase (YC W23) – A new UI and editor for your database

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Post by ushakov »

brayden_wilmoth wrote: post #16
ushakov wrote: post #11

Can 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!

Downloaded your "native Mac app"

Turns out it's just Electron

Disappointed. Will stick to TablePlus

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