For analytical purposes, this text-to-SQL is the future; it's already huge with Snowflake (https://www.snowflake.com/en/engineering-blog/cortex-analyst...).
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#12Re: Show HN: SnapQL – Desktop app to query Postgres with AI
#13I was looking for something like this that supports graphs.
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#14If you can do this, can't you create a read-only user and use it with a database MCP like https://github.com/executeautomation/mcp-database-server ? Am I missing something?
You can set up an MCP and use it in your existing AI app, but is afaiu the first open source standalone app that gives you a familiar interface to other SQL workspace tools. I built it to be a familiar but much more powerful experience for both technical and nontechnical people.
I wish you luck in refining your differentiation.
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#15Re: Show HN: SnapQL – Desktop app to query Postgres with AI
#16Am I misunderstanding something? How is this "Everything runs locally" if it's talking to OpenAI's APIs?
[0]: https://github.com/NickTikhonov/snap-ql/blob/409e937fa330deb...
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#17Re: Show HN: SnapQL – Desktop app to query Postgres with AI
#18Am I misunderstanding something? How is this "Everything runs locally" if it's talking to OpenAI's APIs?
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#19Am I misunderstanding something? How is this "Everything runs locally" if it's talking to OpenAI's APIs?
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
You can set up an MCP and use it in your existing AI app, but is afaiu the first open source standalone app that gives you a familiar interface to other SQL workspace tools. I built it to be a familiar but much more powerful experience for both technical and nontechnical people.
There are competitors with a GUI too, such as https://www.sqlchat.ai/ and https://www.jetbrains.com/datagrip/features/ai/ I wish you luck in refining your differentiation.
> I wish you luck in refining your differentiation. Can't agree more with you. It's about distribution (which Snowflake/Databricks/... have) or differentiation.
Still, chatting with your data is already working and useful for lots.