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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 brayden_wilmoth »

brap wrote: post #42

This is very cool, one usecase I definitely see for this is letting PMs get the answers they want without bothering eng. I would even take this further and hide the SQL altogether, and make this accessible via Slack/Teams bot.

Maybe the largest core beneficiary from a tool such as Outerbase are in fact product teams. That's where we know at larger companies pain is felt.

We do have a Slack integration that isn't launched YET but is in internal testing to be released soon. Glad to hear this feedback and know we're on the right track with thoughts here!

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

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Post by brayden_wilmoth »

bsid wrote: post #49

Connected my database and it's not showing anything, also no error messages in the UI, some 406s in the dev console. would be interested to try it out

Good to know! Can take a look at the fact no error messages were surfaced to help identify the problem. If you want to hop on a call together and figure out the issue email me at - brayden [at] outerbase [dot] com - and I'm happy to hop on and get this working for you.

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

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Post by brayden_wilmoth »

chrisgat wrote: post #53
bsid wrote: post #49

Connected my database and it's not showing anything, also no error messages in the UI, some 406s in the dev console. would be interested to try it out

Same here. Trying to connect to a local db if that matters.

At the moment we only support hosted databases and nothing from the local machine but we are working on adding support for this really soon! It's been much requested.

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

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Post by kgodey »

samanator wrote: post #41

Will this be the interface that I need? Mathesar ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34999774 ) was the last one I tried out but it couldn't support more than 250k rows without crashing and required foreign keys in order to infer relationships. Otherwise it's exactly what I want. An Excel/Airtable interface around a raw database connection. How does Outerbase compare? Edit: Mistypes

Mathesar core team member here. I don't want to distract from Outerbase's launch, but if you have time, would you be able to open an issue for the crash at https://github.com/centerofci/mathesar? We're still in alpha and relying on people checking out the project to report problems like these so we can fix them.

Also, relationships without foreign keys is on our roadmap: https://github.com/centerofci/mathesar/discussions/2276

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

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Post by bsid »

brayden_wilmoth wrote: post #52
bsid wrote: post #49

Connected my database and it's not showing anything, also no error messages in the UI, some 406s in the dev console. would be interested to try it out

Good to know! Can take a look at the fact no error messages were surfaced to help identify the problem. If you want to hop on a call together and figure out the issue email me at - brayden [at] outerbase [dot] com - and I'm happy to hop on and get this working for you.

update: user error on my part, thanks for the help!

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

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Post by brayden_wilmoth »

kgodey wrote: post #58

Congratulations on launching! I run an open source project solving similar problems, and would love to compare notes sometime.

Absolutely. Feel free to reach out to us and we would love to connect & compare notes :)

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

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Post by systems »

colesantiago wrote: post #3

Great launch guys! What is the difference between Retool, Basedash and Outerbase other than they are all funded by YC?

what is basedash, and what is "an admin panel", i visited their site and google for like 10 minutes and still no clue what this is

retool is a rad platfrom, i found it when i was looking for an MS lightswitch replacement, so its clear what it is

also outerbase is a bit strange, its a cloud db interface and the download link is for mac (not windows, mac) , the use cases seem very particular (niche) to me

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