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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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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 genera…

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

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All of my jobs big (1k+ engineers) and small (me), the BE engineers had read access to most databases. The larger companies have some access controls, but if you needed access, it was almost always given.

Would you mind chat about how you guys manage access? We are building something in the access management space. Would love to get some feedback!

At Grab, we have an internally built system (that I think is backed by Active Directory and leverages experience from ppl from okta).

As a "requestor", I choose from a list of services, then I select which role I want, then there are meta attributes (like which country's data I want to access, etc.). This then lets me oAuth into the internal app with a JWT. My access is time limited (max of 90 days or only 2 hours).

As a data owner and EM, I approve requests for services and data that I own.

As an service creator, I have to register the service in the tool, provide all of my various roles and configurations.

This system works with both internal and external authorizations. Like if I need prod AWS write access.

It doesn't cover all data (some tools have similar internally built systems), but we will eventually migrate everything to it.

This is probably all I have time to share.

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

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This is strong evidence that I am not the user & the pricing may indeed stack up. A good response for sure.

Actually looking into it - I still think it's way off. Looking at DataGrip for example, it's only cost comparable if you want the ultra-comprehensive version for connecting to multiple database types (otherwise it's 3x more expensive). And DataGrip is clearly only intended for professional DBA's or something close. This is intended to business-users. There's also going to be crazy price pressure from GPT4 tools in th…

Could be, but if you look at Preset, you are dealing with honestly a parity product as far as I can tell.

> There's also going to be crazy price pressure from GPT4 tools in this segment.

Not really, error rate must = 0 for database tools.

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