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Products that do what Widen – Open-source Mac Postgres GUI with local or cloud text-to-SQL does
Github: https://github.com/betocmn/widen I was paying for DataGrip for several years as my desktop database GUI but if I wanted text-to-SQL with LLMs I'd have to pay even more on top. So I decided to build my own and I've been using it for a few weeks now. At any time I'm usually working with 3 to 6 databases, and having them set up in something like Conductor (for parallel agentic coding), but for Postgres databases, lets me quickly start a session, ask questions to my database in plain English, get a data export, move on and close the session. It's been working well and…
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Postgres GUI using the LLM already on your Mac. Free, open-source native macOS database GUI using Apple's on-device Foundation Model for text-to-sql. - betocmn/widen
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Hi HN, Over the past year, I’ve been building a native MacOS Postgres client for my personal use. While there are plenty of existing clients, I built this because: - No open-source Postgres client matched the smooth UX of tools like Sequel Pro/SequelAce (for MySQL). - I missed the satisfaction of long-term product ownership and iteration—recent work has me jumping between projects. - I’ve been using Postgres more lately and wanted to get hands-on to deepen my knowledge. I also wanted a playground to experiment with client features that would help me on day-to-day. Some I have…
2025 · github.com
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I've already posted yesterday, but I'd really love to get comments, any kind of questions, suggestions and help would be greatly appreciated as it's an Open Source project of mine (and was for others during my studies at the University of Konstanz 6 years ago). Since then I spent countless ours to bring forth the idea of a versioned storage system, especially well suited for analytical tasks for timd-varying data. Especially I'd love to discuss what documentation you need, which next steps are necessary (JSON, Cloud...), API additions or changes... I've updated the README quiet a bit, such…
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2016 · torodb.com
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"Can you check if this user is on the premium plan?" "I have a support ticket on Mr.Bean, saying he cannot login... Can you have a look?" "How many subscriptions did we have today?" ... As senior SWE at Twenty.com (open source CRM), I had these quite often. Every day I needed to check something in Postgres, I had to wait 30 seconds for DBeaver to load or fight pgAdmin's UI. So I built Paul. Yes our database configuration has too many schemas (3000 schemas) for those clients, but still, it was not Postgres fault. Only the client that couldn't handle it. Paul is a native macOS app, light…
Apr 2026 · guillim.github.io
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Hi HN, there’s a distinct lack of modern self-hosted scale-out query engines. A lot of the innovation in the last 10 years has been in SaaS-only systems. That’s also been true for Firebolt until now. We’re now taking the radical step of offering our query engine as a Docker image that’s free for commercial use without any real restrictions on what you can use it for (basically everything except competing with our SaaS offering). There are helm charts and docker compose files in the repo as well to help you get started. The focus of Firebolt is on low-latency, high-concurrency analytics like…
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Hey HN, We’re the co-founders of Swiftgum (swiftgum.com), an open-source platform that ingests and normalizes documents from virtually any platform, ready for your favorite LLM. Swiftgum lets you connect various data sources like Google Drive and Notion, transform the data into markdown, and load it into your vector database of choice, such as Postgres, Supabase, Milvus, or Weaviate. Why We Built It Building a basic RAG system is easy—just embed your documents and query them with an LLM. But for enterprise or multi-user scenarios, you quickly run into challenges: Data sources are messy.…
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2015 · sqlbolt.com
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For the past 10 years at Timescale (now Tiger Data), I've been been watching developers make mistakes in database design: forgetting to index foreign keys, creating case-sensitive email lookups, using arbitrary VARCHAR limits. And I've seen the pain and frustration when there is major downtime and botched migrations fixing things. AI coding could have made this better but is only making things worse. It's infuriating. So, I (along with my awesome team at Tiger Data) built an MCP server that auto-injects Postgres best practices into AI context to help. The biggest innovation: our…
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We just launched a small project I'm really proud of — a turbo Database MCP server! https://centralmind.ai - Connect your database to Cursor or Windsurf in just a few clicks. - Chat with PostgreSQL, MSSQL, ClickHouse, Elasticsearch, and more. - Query huge Parquet files instantly with DuckDB in-memory mode. - No downloads, no setup headaches. Short video: https://youtu.be/BboQtxen9tA Built on top of our open-source MCP Database Gateway: https://github.com/centralmind/gateway Note: You’ll need to provide connection strings to your databases. For…
2025 · centralmind.ai
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What started as a Claude Code experiment turned into a browser-native SQL workbench I now use daily. Runs DuckDB WASM entirely in your browser. No backend, no installation, no signup. - Query local files (CSV, Parquet, Excel) – data never leaves your machine - Handles 100M+ rows, 50GB+ files in a browser tab - Full UI: Monaco editor, schema explorer, spreadsheet-style results grid - Share SQL via URL – anyone can run your query instantly - BigQuery connector built-in (Snowflake coming) v0.2 – actively developing. Feedback welcome. GitHub (MIT):…
Dec 2025 · sql.dbxlite.com
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Hi, we're the creators of Five, the fastest way to go from database or REST API to web GUI. We automatically translate your data structure into a fully responsive web GUI. Our platform gives you the ability to model a MySQL database, write SQL queries, add business logic and integrations through JavaScript or TypeScript functions and launch a multi-user web app to the cloud in a single click (dev, test and prod environments included). Typical use cases for us are building a database admin panel, REST API GUI or any kind of bespoke business software. I'm posting a link to a code-along…
2024 · five.co
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