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

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Post by eviks » Thu, Dec 05, 2024, 4:23 AM UTC

eirikbakke wrote: post #73

slaucon wrote: post #59

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Yeah, my last company paid for a subscription to this. Enjoyed using it. Don’t think there’s a massive market, but definitely lots of devs who want easy DB access and would pay $5/month.

The average true cost to acquire a single customer is in the hundreds of dollars, to pay for sales & marketing labor, advertising etc. So $5/month is nearly equivalent to "free" from a business perspective. https://firstpagesage.com/marketing/average-cac-for-saas-bus...

Why not closer to dozens of dollars like for ecommerce, so about annual revenue per customer?

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

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Post by maxloh » Thu, Dec 05, 2024, 4:38 AM UTC

It would be great if we could self-host it with pre-defined credentials (perhaps using an .env file). This would be useful for demo projects with Docker Compose.

For production use, we'll need some form of OAuth support, or users will have to implement their own authentication gateway in front of the Studio server.

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

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Post by hahn-kev » Thu, Dec 05, 2024, 4:48 AM UTC

I'd love to try it out, but I get an error about an invalid URL in the console when I try to open a database. Also it does not support Firefox

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

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Post by anon291 » Thu, Dec 05, 2024, 4:58 AM UTC

j1mmie wrote: post #29

For years I've wondered why a general purpose, high quality, good UX, browser based DB browser has not existed. I've implemented 3 such (not general-purpose) browsers in my career. But I'd be really happy to stop doing that and use this instead. I would love to see a Firestore driver implemented (maybe I'll take a crack at it some day), as I'm stuck in GCP land for the time being.

Seriously... not only a browser but also something akin to access. It's crazy to me that it's 2024 and no/low code tools online are all still worse than MS access.

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

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Post by pkphilip » Thu, Dec 05, 2024, 5:50 AM UTC

Good project. The only thing I don't like about it is the dependence on Electron.. because it slows down everything.

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

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Post by 8mobile » Thu, Dec 05, 2024, 5:55 AM UTC

Congratulations on your work! I tried Outerbase Studio and really appreciate the clean and visually appealing design. However, I noticed that it occasionally slows down during use. Looking forward to seeing future updates to make it even smoother!

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

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Post by evantahler » Thu, Dec 05, 2024, 6:05 AM UTC

j1mmie wrote: post #29

For years I've wondered why a general purpose, high quality, good UX, browser based DB browser has not existed. I've implemented 3 such (not general-purpose) browsers in my career. But I'd be really happy to stop doing that and use this instead. I would love to see a Firestore driver implemented (maybe I'll take a crack at it some day), as I'm stuck in GCP land for the time being.

SequelPro for me!

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

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Post by tangoman » Thu, Dec 05, 2024, 6:19 AM UTC

burcs wrote: post #68

d0100 wrote: post #67

Would be nice to have an option of choosing a "compact" interface When you contrast web UI with native GUI, the realspace you lose in the web accumulates fast All that padding makes it hard to see the actual information, especially for power users Compare this with Navicat, or even DBeaver, their native tabs, buttons and cells are almost half the height of Outerbase Studio GUI

This is great feedback thank you, we will work on adding in a compact mode!

totally agree with this comment, a desktop UI should give me all the screen real state I can get, waste as little as possible in empty space.

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

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Post by ibrothergang » Thu, Dec 05, 2024, 6:33 AM UTC

Great, I'm going to try it

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

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Post by giancarlostoro » Thu, Dec 05, 2024, 6:35 AM UTC

Brian_K_White wrote: post #71

giancarlostoro wrote: post #6

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I saw that it was AGPL licensed, which was odd to me for something that's supposed to be a client. I don't like the AGPL license because of how overbearing it is, I avoid downloading AGPL'd software, unless its a pure compiled binary. I am probably a little too strict about software licenses, but I rather always have the freedom to keep any forks to myself, don't force me to share code for my one-off project.

AGPL does not prevent anything that anyone has any right to want. The more someone cries that agpl (or gpl3, or gpl-any) is "overbearing", the more they expose how they wish they could steal. You can't say one without saying the other, they are the same statement. And it's an extra level of amazing to need to steal something that's already free. You can absolutely not only use agpl software, for free, you can even se…

I mean I just avoid the software altogether, and yes I would rather pay for proprietary software than use a license that could somehow wind me up in any sort of lawsuit should I ever make similar software. No thanks.

People say that but I remember when Mongo changed their license to some custom one that was similarish to AGPL and it didnt even matter because China just does not care.