Looks like a good idea. Any reason you didn't use React native?
Show HN: SnapQL – Desktop app to query Postgres with AI
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#22Looks like a good idea. Any reason you didn't use React native?
Not really - I had some previous experience with electron and wanted to finish the core feature set in a few hours, so just went with what I already know.
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#23Are there plans to support other LLM sources, in particular ollama?
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#24What's the underlying model to enable this ?
Currently OpenAI 4o
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#25Am I misunderstanding something? How is this "Everything runs locally" if it's talking to OpenAI's APIs?
What I meant was that it isn't a web app and I don't store your connection strings or query results. I'll make this more clear
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#27Earlier 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.
The first doesn't have good UX and the second isn't open source. SnapQL is both :) But I'll find new ways to differentiate for sure, it's part of the fun of building.
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#29Looks useful! And the system prompt didn't require too much finessing. I wonder how it would work with some later models than gpt-4o as in my own dabbling around gpt-4o wasn't quite there yet and the latest models are getting really good. 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... ).
Appreciate the input! I'd love to be able to support more models. That's one of the issues in the repo right now. And I'd be more than happy to welcome contributions to add this and other features
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#30awesome work nick, literally been asking for a vibe coding SQL interface for months
thanks Jaimin. happy you finally found what you were looking for :D