Show HN: Time Travel with Your SQL

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Post by modelorona » Thu, Apr 10, 2025, 10:48 PM UTC

Hi, my name is Anguel and I am one of the developers of WhoDB (https://github.com/clidey/whodb)

I am not a fan of the dbeaver, beekeeper, adminer, etc experience because they are bloated, ugly, and at best okay but not great.

Hence why I started working on WhoDB.

The approach:

- browser-based (chrome/firefox)

- no bloat

- jupyter notebook-like experience (Scratchpad)

- built-in AI co-pilot with ollama (local) or openai/anthropic

We just shipped query history and replay (time travel?) to the Scratchpad.

Would love for you to check it out and give some feedback aka roast us into oblivion:

docker run -p 8080:8080 clidey/whodb

Food for thought:

1. What's your biggest database pain point?

2. Any killer feature missing from current tools?

Re: Show HN: Time Travel with Your SQL

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Post by cmcconomy » Fri, Apr 11, 2025, 3:45 PM UTC

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Apr 11, 2025, 3:50 PM UTC

cmcconomy wrote: post #2

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Re: Show HN: Time Travel with Your SQL

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Post by neximo64 » Fri, Apr 11, 2025, 3:55 PM UTC

1. The tools are always web based and have a bloated and bad experience as opposed to a complete native app.

2. Charts, easy ability to find the database if there are so many

Re: Show HN: Time Travel with Your SQL

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Post by xnx » Fri, Apr 11, 2025, 3:55 PM UTC

> I am not a fan of the dbeaver, beekeeper, adminer, etc experience because they are bloated, ugly, and at best okay but not great

What you call "bloated", I call "features". What you call "ugly", I call "functional".

Re: Show HN: Time Travel with Your SQL

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Apr 11, 2025, 4:05 PM UTC

xnx wrote: post #5

> I am not a fan of the dbeaver, beekeeper, adminer, etc experience because they are bloated, ugly, and at best okay but not great What you call "bloated", I call "features". What you call "ugly", I call "functional".

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Re: Show HN: Time Travel with Your SQL

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Post by dleeftink » Fri, Apr 11, 2025, 4:11 PM UTC

Cool product.

> No more wasting time crafting complex SQL queries

I always wondered about this sentiment; isn't the time spent crafting complex queries a good thing when trying to understand a problem domain? I.e. incrementally refining your mental model of the data model

Re: Show HN: Time Travel with Your SQL

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Post by jf22 » Fri, Apr 11, 2025, 4:20 PM UTC

xnx wrote: post #5

> I am not a fan of the dbeaver, beekeeper, adminer, etc experience because they are bloated, ugly, and at best okay but not great What you call "bloated", I call "features". What you call "ugly", I call "functional".

I've never made a software usage decision because a product felt "too bloated" for us to use.

Re: Show HN: Time Travel with Your SQL

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Post by rprtr258 » Fri, Apr 11, 2025, 4:26 PM UTC

how did you manage to put

- no bloat

- built-in AI co-pilot with ollama (local) or openai/anthropic

into one list?

Re: Show HN: Time Travel with Your SQL

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Apr 11, 2025, 4:33 PM UTC

jf22 wrote: post #8

xnx wrote: post #5

> I am not a fan of the dbeaver, beekeeper, adminer, etc experience because they are bloated, ugly, and at best okay but not great What you call "bloated", I call "features". What you call "ugly", I call "functional".

I've never made a software usage decision because a product felt "too bloated" for us to use.

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