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Show HN: SnapQL – Desktop app to query Postgres with AI

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104 points nicktikhonov | 1 comments | 20 Jun 25 11:08 UTC | HN request time: 0.269s | source

SnapQL is an open-source desktop app (built with Electron) that lets you query your Postgres database using natural language. It’s schema-aware, so you don’t need to copy-paste your schema or write complex SQL by hand.

Everything runs locally — your OpenAI API key, your data, and your queries — so it's secure and private. Just connect your DB, describe what you want, and SnapQL writes and runs the SQL for you.

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sgarland ◴[20 Jun 25 23:36 UTC] No.44333123[source]▶
Genuinely do not understand the point of these tools. There is already a practically natural language to query RDBMS; it’s called SQL. I guarantee you, anyone who knows any other language could learn enough SQL to do 99% of what they wanted in a couple of hours. Give it a day of intensive study, and you’d know the rest. It’s just not that complicated.
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1. v5v3 ◴[21 Jun 25 08:43 UTC] No.44335820[source]▶
In a business, a management decision maker has to rely on a Db analyst if any query they have cannot be answered by any front end tool they have been given. And that introduces latency to the process

A 100% accurate ai powered solution would have many customers.

But can this generation of llms produce 100% accuracy?