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Show HN: Time Travel with Your SQL

43 points modelorona | 3 comments | 10 Apr 25 22:48 UTC | HN request time: 0.201s | source

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?

1. dleeftink ◴[11 Apr 25 16:11 UTC] No.43655448[source]▶
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

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2. datadrivenangel ◴[11 Apr 25 19:54 UTC] No.43657829[source]▶
Some complexity is accidental (how do I do this gnarly window function and get the 3rd highest value from the previous week this time last year except on the first week of the quarter), and some is essential (why is the data like this?).

People confuse the two, and rightfully dislike the former while dangerously resenting the latter.

3. johnthescott ◴[12 Apr 25 05:25 UTC] No.43661584[source]▶
amen. get the schema correct and the gui will follow.