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mikenikles

43 karmajoined 12 lat temu
Building seaquel.app - Database Management, Reimagined.

25 years of helping businesses from 0 to 1. Now building my own product to do it all over again, solo.

Excellent developer experience leads to excellent customer experience.

Submissions

Show HN: Orchestrator – a single-binary workflow orchestration tool

github.com
1 points·by mikenikles·6 dni temu·1 comments

Show HN: Tuxedo – A fast, keyboard-driven terminal UI for todo.txt

github.com
5 points·by mikenikles·2 miesiące temu·3 comments

Ask HN: Who Uses a todo.txt?

4 points·by mikenikles·2 miesiące temu·4 comments

comments

mikenikles
·6 dni temu·discuss
Creator of Orchestrator here. Two things I want to share and ideally get feedback on:

1) Horizontal scaling via workers 2) Flow tasks as executable plugins written in any language

Horizontal scaling via workers The `orchestrator` binary either runs fully standalone (with the UI, scheduler, executor, etc) or as a worker that connects to a binary that runs in server mode. The latter allows horizontal scaling by simply starting the binary in worker mode on any machine.

Flow tasks as executable plugins written in any language There's a http plugin I provide by default (others to come depending on demand). Any other task type is a separate plugin executable that provides a manifest that declares the UI elements and plugin execution code. The server (or workers) communicate with plugins over a small newline-delimited JSON protocol on stdin/stdout. Not as fast as in-process, but extensible without any code modifications in Orchestrator.
mikenikles
·2 miesiące temu·discuss
Thank you for the feedback and bug report! The bug is fixed in version 2026.5.5.

I also added a `/` command in a todo's input field to add metadata more visually. There's also a new `:` command palette.
mikenikles
·3 miesiące temu·discuss
Of course it is :).
mikenikles
·3 miesiące temu·discuss
A database client better than Datagrip is a tough one, yet I'm attempting to do just that [1] :).

I'm in month 4 of development, working on it full-time.

[1] https://seaquel.app
mikenikles
·3 miesiące temu·discuss
Month 4 of building a data management platform called Seaquel [1].

Months 1-3 were about building a desktop client. Now I'm working on a server binary customers can optionally self-host to share dashboards publicly and run workflow automations.

[1] https://seaquel.app/
mikenikles
·3 miesiące temu·discuss
I added an interactive demo to my product's landing page [1], thinking people would prefer that over yet another product video.

However, your comment hit me... :-) I'm going to record a video!

[1] https://seaquel.app
mikenikles
·3 miesiące temu·discuss
Oh wait... haha your source doesn't match your professional experience :). My offer still stands though.
mikenikles
·3 miesiące temu·discuss
How about this counter offer? I give you 50% of the revenue for any sale you make for https://seaquel.app. If you tell me we need a lifetime offer, consider it done.
mikenikles
·4 miesiące temu·discuss
I'm curious what you think of https://seaquel.app as a DataGrip alternative.

It's a project I'm working on to build a database management product I've always wanted.

I spend way too much time obsessing over UX but hope people appreciate it :).
mikenikles
·4 miesiące temu·discuss
I build Seaquel, the database client I've always wished I had. It's open source, works offline and doesn't track what you do.

It has a visual query builder and separate SQL tutorial.

https://seaquel.app