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Show HN: DrawDB – open-source online database diagram editor (a retro)

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263 points 1ilit | 2 comments | 09 Apr 25 00:20 UTC | HN request time: 0.8s | source

One year ago I open-sourced my very first 'real' project and shared it here. I was a college student in my senior year and desperately looking for a job. At the time of sharing it i couldn't even afford a domain and naively let someone buy the one i had my eyes on lol. It's been a hell of a year with this blowing up, me moving to another country, and switching 2 jobs.

In a year we somehow managed to hit 26k stars, grow a 1000+ person discord community, and support 37 languages. I couldn't be more grateful for the community that helped this grow, but now i don't know what direction to take this project in.

All of this was an accident. But now I feel like I'm missing out on not using this success. I have been thinking of monetization options, but not sure if I wanna go down that route. I like the idea of it being free and available for everyone but also can't help but think of everything that could be done if committed full-time or even had a small team. I keep telling myself(and others) i'll do something if i meet a co-founder, but doubt and fear of blowing this up keeps back.

How would you proceed?

1. pan69 ◴[10 Apr 25 10:04 UTC] No.43642408[source]▶
I really like this app. I tried it out but when I wanted copy and paste the first table I created as a template to create the next table, the app asked me for access to read text and images of my clipboard. I don't really like doing that because it seems like your app can read anything of my clipboard at any time?
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2. 1ilit ◴[10 Apr 25 10:21 UTC] No.43642494[source]▶
>the app asked me for access to read text and images of my clipboard yeah, that's the browser asking for permission to read and write to the clipboard

>it seems like your app can read anything of my clipboard at any time only when you paste, the app reads the latest entry in your clipboard, and only if it is a valid json object of a table, note, or subject area, it gets imported

just using the clipboard api: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Clipboard_A...