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Show HN: Outerbase Studio – Open-Source Database GUI
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Re: Show HN: Outerbase Studio – Open-Source Database GUI
#132For 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.
> browser based For whatever reason, this is the main limiting factor, local software can already be really good, for example: • DBeaver - pretty nice and lightweight local tool for a plethora of databases https://dbeaver.io/ • DataGrip - commercial product, but you'll feel right at home if you use other JetBrains products https://www.jetbrains.com/datagrip/ • HeidiSQL - haven't really used this myself but the versio…
There is also an old school browser based phpMyAdmin
Re: Show HN: Outerbase Studio – Open-Source Database GUI
#133lets swap out pgadmin for this
replicate all its functionality, then imma stick this on all our production servers
yeeeeeeeah boooooiiiiii
Re: Show HN: Outerbase Studio – Open-Source Database GUI
#134We currently use Metabase for SQL reporting, so I've been looking for something to allow actually changing values for a while. That being said, I don't think I would want to touch this. Reading through the code, it looks like a) it doesn't actually use transactions which I just find mind blowing and b) the first two files I looked at (api/database) has the schema for a database defined twice so already I worry about…
I thought Metabase can change values?
Re: Show HN: Outerbase Studio – Open-Source Database GUI
#135Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
It seems odd that there is nothing like Access (or the other couple if similar DB tools that were around in the heyday of Access and before), but I think it is because the demand is relatively small. I've seen several projects start in that direction then pivot elsewhere or just die an unsupported death. I think the problem is that demand/interest is not sufficient to keep a self-hosted project going, nor monetisable…
> It seems odd that there is nothing like Access
There are many commercial services and tools. Like Notion and Airtable and all their clones. For more advanced users and usecases there are those like Metabase, Retool and all their clones. But they are more focused on specific domains. And today it's quite easy to just barf up some CRUD-interface with webstack, especially now that AI is good enough for simple stuff.
Re: Show HN: Outerbase Studio – Open-Source Database GUI
#136For 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.
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Re: Show HN: Outerbase Studio – Open-Source Database GUI
#137We currently use Metabase for SQL reporting, so I've been looking for something to allow actually changing values for a while. That being said, I don't think I would want to touch this. Reading through the code, it looks like a) it doesn't actually use transactions which I just find mind blowing and b) the first two files I looked at (api/database) has the schema for a database defined twice so already I worry about…
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Re: Show HN: Outerbase Studio – Open-Source Database GUI
#138Are you planning to release any 'end-user' features such as reports and dashboards? BI tools like Metabase already offer capabilities for SQL queries and database exploration, so I wonder what additional features or advantages your tool might provide to distinguish itself in the market.
Small typo in the footer - 'Compilance' (error report: https://triplechecker.com/s/345418/studio.outerbase.com)
Re: Show HN: Outerbase Studio – Open-Source Database GUI
#139Earlier quoted context omitted.
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?
Databases are B2B products, not consumer products. They are commercially useful only when placed in the context of some larger business process (e.g. tracking customers/orders/goods/users/batches/events/patients/filings etc.).
Re: Show HN: Outerbase Studio – Open-Source Database GUI
#140Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why not closer to dozens of dollars like for ecommerce, so about annual revenue per customer?
Databases are B2B products, not consumer products. They are commercially useful only when placed in the context of some larger business process (e.g. tracking customers/orders/goods/users/batches/events/patients/filings etc.).
We're talking about database viewers/editors, not databases in general. But also databases are used plenty in consumer products, e.g., some sqlite file that stores your app's config
And these are consumers:
> definitely lots of devs who want easy DB access and would pay