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Re: Show HN: Outerbase Studio – Open-Source Database GUI

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drewp wrote: post #4
burcs wrote: post #2

Happy to answer any questions around this! As far as next steps we are going to be adding in more database support as well as bringing in some of Outerbase Cloud's AI features.

Are there comparisons to related projects somewhere? E.g. I've use DBeaver before. Is there some reason I should try Outerbase next time?

I put together this in related to our cloud offering, it's still somewhat relevant for Outerbase Studio even though some features are different:

https://www.outerbase.com/blog/the-5-best-database-managemen...

Our goal is to make data accessible through good user experiences and focus. Whether that is being able to spin up a local database directly from the app, or simply making the query experience as intuitive as possible, we are really pushing on making the database usable.

Re: Show HN: Outerbase Studio – Open-Source Database GUI

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stronglikedan wrote: post #3

I downloaded it, fired it up locally, was presented with a login screen , closed it, and uninstalled it. Sorry, but I don't log into local software.

Sorry I am assuming you downloaded our cloud based client, which yes is a bit different, here is the correct download link for our open-source client:

https://github.com/outerbase/studio-desktop/releases

Apologies for the confusion here!

Re: Show HN: Outerbase Studio – Open-Source Database GUI

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Post by nandosobral03 »

burcs wrote: post #12
nandosobral03 wrote: post #9

The mac desktop icon looks huge compared to the standard macOS apps

Whoops I'll get that updated, for some reason it didn't crop the bounding box when I exported it!

Thank you! I've tried using outerbase within turso for my last few proyects and the experience has been great. Looking forward to using the app

Re: Show HN: Outerbase Studio – Open-Source Database GUI

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Post by teddarific »

i hate working with DBs via command line, so this looks really cool. curious if your product resonates with a specific segment of developers, e.g. frontend vs backend? Hoping this can entirely replace me needing to do anything DB related in the comamnd line...

Re: Show HN: Outerbase Studio – Open-Source Database GUI

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Post by burcs »

kiwicopple wrote: post #8

congrats on open sourcing i didn't try it locally yet but it looks like the cloud version can create SQLite databases inside the browser? Assuming the open source version does too, can you also "connect" to those databases somehow?

Thank Paul — Supabase has always been such a huge inspiration for us!

Yes you can spin up sqlite directly in the browser, and on the local studio version you can actually spin up both MySQL and Postgres instances. You have to have docker running as well, and we will automatically spin up the containers for you, making it a completely hands-off experience!

You can connect through them instantly through the GUI without needing to configure anything. We are actually going to be releasing something later this week that will really help with the local dev story by making those local databases accessible from the web

Re: Show HN: Outerbase Studio – Open-Source Database GUI

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Post by burcs »

johtso wrote: post #5

Outerbase Studio is great! Been happily using it to experiment with queries over my Turso database, and see how many rows are being read when optimising. Excited to hear that some AI stuff is going to be brought over, currently do a lot of switching back and forth with ChatGPT, and having your database schema automatically be part of the prompt would be great. I'm guessing visualisation stuff is going to stay part of…

Thank you Johtso! Glad you have been enjoying it :)

Yeah definitely it's been a challenge to think about how we want to bring it over, probably going to do a bring your own key experience for the AI that way we're not eating the costs on an open-source project. Have been thinking about bundling a Llama type experience as well, but I'm not sure if people would want that, would you?

Yeah for now it is, although we've talked about also releasing a lightweight version of that haha!

Re: Show HN: Outerbase Studio – Open-Source Database GUI

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Post by burcs »

johtso wrote: post #7
drewp wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are there comparisons to related projects somewhere? E.g. I've use DBeaver before. Is there some reason I should try Outerbase next time?

Don't think DBeaver supports libsql databases? I think the goal here is to be able to working with Turso / Cloudflare D1 databases etc.

Yeah that's been another big part of this too, making sure it's a simple way to support these new and lightweight but powerful databases!

Re: Show HN: Outerbase Studio – Open-Source Database GUI

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Post by burcs »

teddarific wrote: post #15

i hate working with DBs via command line, so this looks really cool. curious if your product resonates with a specific segment of developers, e.g. frontend vs backend? Hoping this can entirely replace me needing to do anything DB related in the comamnd line...

Yes! I too am not a huge command line fan (unless it's git for some reason), my background is actually in design so it was really painful trying to access DBs at first and the only options were the CLI or tools that look like they were built 20 years ago.

That was actually the catalyst for creating Outerbase! We have all types of people using us today, honestly we resonate really well with anyone who needs access to a DB. Frontend folks love us because we're a more modern way to do it and we line up really well with other modern frontend stacks, backend folks like us because we are really focused and make it straightforward to manage your data, and non-technical teams love us because they can actually get the data they need without needing to be a DBA.

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