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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 »

samanator wrote: post #74

I'm running postgres on docker on an ec2 instance and outerbase lets me save the connection but doesn't show any schemas or let me query any tables. I've checked and double checked firewalls to make sure the IP is whitelisted. I'm able to connect with the same setup from my personal computer via psql (with the only difference being the ip whitelisted)by whitelisting it. Hope you get this working or add some improved…

We are looking into this. Apologies for the issue. Plain IP addresses should work no problem. If it helps to connect and debug together feel free to send me an email at - brayden [at] outerbase [dot] com.

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

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Post by LilyFrenchPants »

brayden_wilmoth wrote: post #75
wkdneidbwf wrote: post #62

so outerbox connects directly to the db without using a bridge service like Mode does? meh, i don’t want to allow inbound connections from the internet. i absolutely hate mode, but i liked their bridge connector.

We are working on providing VPN tunnel connections or VPC-to-VPC connections as well, but it's not quite available today. Thanks for sharing this concern with us!

You are going to hit a scaling limit from AWS on the # of VPC your org can have and have at the same time.

LFP

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

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Post by brayden_wilmoth »

e12e wrote: post #83

What is "the app for Mac"? As i understand from other comments, it's not, in fact, on premise?

The Mac app that's referenced is our downloadable Electron application for Mac's. The alternative is to use Outerbase via our website.

In terms of serving Outerbase on-prem, it's an enterprise offering we do support.

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

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Post by bilalq »

burcs wrote: post #65
ushakov wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Downloaded your "native Mac app" Turns out it's just Electron Disappointed. Will stick to TablePlus

Yeah I get it. We wanted to get a local version out there as it's what a lot of people want, but as you can imagine a full native mac app takes a ton of time to deliver. We thought Electron would be a nice interim until we go down the route further. I know Electron doesn't get a lot of love, is it the file size, the UX, or what about it makes it less desirable for you?

FWIW, I'm part of the audience that doesn't mind Electron apps. The reality is that there just wouldn't be as many native cross-platform apps without it. Connecting to a DB running on localhost is something I'd absolutely want to be able to do here (it even addresses access to private network DBs since local tunnels can be setup), and a webapp wouldn't be able to deliver on that. I don't care if it's "full native" or not, so long as it delivers value.

To add on to that, it has not been my experience that fully native apps are guaranteed to be better quality. SequelPro/SequelAce are native, but they definitely feel clunkier than a lot of electron apps. Maybe it's more efficient in RAM and CPU, but when the bulk of the computation happens remotely, I don't really care.

As a potential user, I'd much rather you spend your time delivering support for connecting to DBs on localhost.

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

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Post by gverrilla »

I've been working for 3 years now in a deep tech startup in the agriculture space: we have developed a model, and are running tests with big companies. We rely on a MySQL db for parameters. The core team is me, and 2 of my partners. They are both experts in the field, and don't have much experience with computers, let alone MySQL. Throughout the development of the project, they need to dig into the database to generate reports and also tweak the numbers - it happens all the time. We love your video demo, and would love to use something like this instead of SQL + MySQL Workbench, but there are 2 problems:

1) We are bootstrapping, with low resources, and no income: paying for something like this is not an option - not even if it was 1/10 of the current price.

2) As I said we have data from big companies, so it would only be viable if we could do it all locally (not even sure if that's possible).

With you current business model I think you might perhaps lose a lot of opportunities like us.

Also, it might be a noob question, but it's not clear if we can use this to EDIT data aswell, directly. It's a bit of a pain in Workbench: for instance, if you don't have an AI PK, it won't allow you to edit data after a select statement.

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

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Post by burcs »

Etai wrote: post #86

Great job with the UI. Looks really clean. One concern many data teams might have with this is around how something like verifies that the queries are correct before sharing it with the rest of the company. Have you thought about a solution for that?

Really appreciate it!

So right now a user can create a query, save it, and share it with their teammate for verification. Their isn’t currently a more automated workflow to do this, but it is something we are definitely exploring.

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

#90

Post by burcs »

aarondia wrote: post #87

Congrats on the launch Brandon + Brayden. I'm building something similar over at Mito ( https://www.trymito.io ), although we're Python first instead of SQL first. Would love to hop on a call and learn more!

This looks great! Send an email to brandon [at] outerbase [dot] com and we can find some time to chat.
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