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Dev tools · March 8, 2023

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Plato – Airtable for your SQL database

Hi! I've been a member of HN for fifteen years so today I'm very excited to share Plato. Plato is an Airtable-like interface for your Postgres or MySQL database. It's an admin panel for devs and non-devs alike to manage your DB. We see teams use Plato for customer support, customer success, ops, etc.. We built Plato because we think more people should be able to build and extend internal tools. We thought it was strange that even though low-code is supposed to democratize development, all of the low-code internal tool builders are marketed to engineers! Airtable is a familiar UI that fits…

Plato – Airtable for your SQL database launched on March 8, 2023 with 100 votes, #578 of 5,007 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches.

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Plato is an Airtable-like interface for managing Postgres and MySQL databases. It serves as an admin panel for both developers and non-technical users to view, edit, and organize database records without writing SQL. Teams use it for customer support, operations, and other internal management tasks. The tool includes visual query controls like filtering, sorting, and column hiding, plus support for database joins through an expansion interface.

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Hi! I've been a member of HN for fifteen years so today I'm very excited to share Plato. Plato is an Airtable-like interface for your Postgres or MySQL database. It's an admin panel for devs and non-devs alike to manage your DB. We see teams use Plato for customer support, customer success, ops, etc.. We built Plato…

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