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Show HN: Interactive SQL Tutorial with a visual query builder

2 points·by mootoday·vor 5 Monaten·0 comments

Show HN: A vibe-coded database GUI

seaquel.app
5 points·by mootoday·vor 7 Monaten·11 comments

Ask HN: Is it worth building a database GUI?

2 points·by mootoday·vor 7 Monaten·4 comments

Ask HN: What kind of TUI would you use if it existed?

1 points·by mootoday·vor 8 Monaten·6 comments

Instead of paternity leave, they ended my contract

bsky.app
3 points·by mootoday·vor 8 Monaten·1 comments

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mootoday
·vor 4 Monaten·discuss
AI of course
mootoday
·vor 5 Monaten·discuss
https://seaquel.app/

It's the SQL client I've always wished I had. It's a desktop app, but I made it work in the browser too thanks to DuckDB Wasm.
mootoday
·vor 5 Monaten·discuss
And now there's a skill to do just that.

https://cloudrouter.dev/
mootoday
·vor 5 Monaten·discuss
You don't need a vendor-locked solution for AI agents to work in their own isolated environments :-).

- https://sprites.dev - https://mise.jdx.dev - https://fnox.jdx.dev

Develop a small API that accepts a prompt, starts a sprite sandbox, and then you wait for the AI agent to open a pull request.

I developed that in less than a week and now my client owns the code, can customize it to their needs, and if they want to use a different compute environment, they can with minimal code changes needed.
mootoday
·vor 5 Monaten·discuss
https://seaquel.app

Month 2 of building the SQL client I've always wished I had.

One feature I'm especially proud of is the visual query builder. Drag & drop to build SQL queries.

There's also an entire SQL tutorial section for anyone who wants to learn or refresh SQL knowledge.
mootoday
·vor 6 Monaten·discuss
I built something similar after reading the blog post, based on sprites.dev.

A day of work to get the prototype working and a few hours the next day to allow multiple users to authenticate.

It's surprisingly simple.
mootoday
·vor 6 Monaten·discuss
After reading the article, I built a tool like that with sprites.dev. There's a websocket to communicate stdout and stderr to the client.

Web app submits the prompt, a sandbox starts on sprites.dev and any Claude output in the sandbox gets piped to the web app for display.

Not sure I can open source it as it's something I built for a client, but ask if you have any questions.
mootoday
·vor 7 Monaten·discuss
Yeah, I've noticed similar things with my projects. Hard to avoid these days I think.

Awesome, thanks for being an early adopter!

I got some great feedback already, so I'll continue building it out.

Roadmap: - Release binaries for Intel Mac, Linux, Windows - Add / test support for more database engines - Wrap up the LLM integration

Holidays are coming up, it may be a productive time haha
mootoday
·vor 7 Monaten·discuss
I'm sure everyone has their own tolerance for what is and isn't maintainable :). For me, not knowing what code exists, where it is, how it fits together, and stuffing it all in one main file feels like a recipe for trouble down the road. Sure, I could probably tell the LLM to split the main file into modules and ask it to refactor code etc.

However, from personal experience I'm a lot more efficient when I use LLMs to help with tedious, boilerplate-like code writing but I remain in control over structuring the project so it's maintainable by more than machines only.

I use LLMs every day to write tests for example, it's a massive time saving and I wouldn't want to write tests manually ever again.
mootoday
·vor 7 Monaten·discuss
Hey, I did not. As mcbetz mentioned, I tried vibe-coding and anything you see is generated by LLMs. He linked to my blog post where I summarized the journey.

ZenQuery looks nice, I like the focus on supporting regular files.
mootoday
·vor 7 Monaten·discuss
There we go, all set up!

https://github.com/WebstoneHQ/seaquel
mootoday
·vor 7 Monaten·discuss
It was frictionless to get everything up and running.

Communication between the frontend and backend is via an `invoke` method, easy as pie :).

It's not open source, but once I get the Apple developer stuff all done, I'll add an auto-update feature and open source it.
mootoday
·vor 7 Monaten·discuss
A database desktop client, built with Tauri & SvelteKit.

"But there are many already!" I hear the crowd exclaim.

I respond, "Yes, but..."

It's really something I want for myself. Lightweight, as fast as humanly possible, extensible via plugins (in fact the entire app is mostly plugins, with a small core to glue it together), and a tiny bit of LLM (call it AI if you wish) integration to ask questions about the database or generate/review queries.
mootoday
·vor 7 Monaten·discuss
That's how I feel about most visual database clients I've used over the years...

It's something I hear from many others too, hence my interest in trying to build an incredibly fast and lightweight product.
mootoday
·vor 7 Monaten·discuss
Thanks for your insights. What made you stop working on it?

The insomnia creator also has a Tauri http client now called Yaak(.app). A huge inspiration to work on my database client.
mootoday
·vor 7 Monaten·discuss
Thank you, I appreciate the in-depth opinion! I think Tauri with SvelteKit is going to be my first prototype, likely followed by gpui because I'm impressed by Zed which is built with gpui.

Also, TIL about PopOS, thank you!
mootoday
·vor 7 Monaten·discuss
I recently started to get an interest in writing a GUI with Rust. In particular, a database GUI.

Initially, I thought Tauri with Svelte. Then I learned about gpui (https://www.gpui.rs/) and I'm intrigued.

TIL about iced, which seems to have been around for a while.

Before I embark on building a prototype UI for my app with all three libraries, does anyone have hands-on experience they can share?
mootoday
·vor 7 Monaten·discuss
My personal favorite to keep an eye on is https://www.gpui.rs/.

It's what Zed(.dev) is based on. While not quite ready for prime time from what I understand, if Zed is the reference implementation, I'm sold!
mootoday
·vor 8 Monaten·discuss
I'm working on https://pipestack.dev, a workflow automation platform where you bring your own code - as Wasm Components.

Think n8n, but you bring your own code and optionally even your hardware to execute pipelines.
mootoday
·vor 8 Monaten·discuss
Ooooh... you just gave me an idea :). A TUI for http://todotxt.org/.

That way, there's no lock-in and people can easily use their existing todo.txt to try the TUI.

I'm looking for a TUI idea to explore Ratatui, so maybe this is it right here!