Hacker News: mikenikles

New comment by mikenikles in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)"

mikenikles — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 01:47:31 +0000

Month 4 of building a data management platform called Seaquel [1].

Months 1-3 were about building a desktop client. Now I'm working on a server binary customers can optionally self-host to share dashboards publicly and run workflow automations.

[1] https://seaquel.app/

New comment by mikenikles in "Show HN: CSS Studio. Design by hand, code by agent"

mikenikles — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 06:47:30 +0000

I added an interactive demo to my product's landing page [1], thinking people would prefer that over yet another product video.

However, your comment hit me... :-) I'm going to record a video!

[1] https://seaquel.app

New comment by mikenikles in "Ask HN: How do you handle marketing as a solo technical founder?"

mikenikles — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 03:13:22 +0000

Oh wait... haha your source doesn't match your professional experience :). My offer still stands though.

New comment by mikenikles in "Ask HN: How do you handle marketing as a solo technical founder?"

mikenikles — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 03:09:30 +0000

How about this counter offer? I give you 50% of the revenue for any sale you make for https://seaquel.app. If you tell me we need a lifetime offer, consider it done.

New comment by mikenikles in "Astral to Join OpenAI"

mikenikles — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 20:38:53 +0000

I'm curious what you think of https://seaquel.app as a DataGrip alternative.

It's a project I'm working on to build a database management product I've always wanted.

I spend way too much time obsessing over UX but hope people appreciate it :).

New comment by mikenikles in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)"

mikenikles — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 11:34:14 +0000

I build Seaquel, the database client I've always wished I had. It's open source, works offline and doesn't track what you do.

It has a visual query builder and separate SQL tutorial.

https://seaquel.app

New comment by mikenikles in "Show HN: Flox 1.0 – Open-source dev env as code with Nix"

mikenikles — Thu, 14 Mar 2024 02:19:20 +0000

How does it compare to the existing Devbox project (https://www.jetpack.io/devbox)?

Does Flox have an optional cloud solution as well? Can Flox install specific versions of Nix packages? What about OS-specific dependencies?

I've worked with tools like that for 5 years. Curious to understand what Flox brings to the table that we don't already have.

Goldsky Democratizes Streaming Data for Web3 Developers

mikenikles — Mon, 02 Oct 2023 21:20:20 +0000

Article URL: https://thenewstack.io/how-goldsky-democratizes-streaming-data-for-web3-developers/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37744561

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Today I learned that random people can send you money on PayPal and disputed it

mikenikles — Wed, 16 Aug 2023 05:54:56 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/0xRokku/status/1691541352650272771

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37143329

Points: 54

# Comments: 68

New comment by mikenikles in "PackagingCon – A conference only for software package management"

mikenikles — Wed, 09 Aug 2023 04:14:15 +0000

I've spent the last year managing all my packages with Devbox (https://github.com/jetpack-io/devbox).

Local dev, cloud dev, CI, production – all with the same config file. Fingers crossed my talk submission for PackagingCon gets accepted. It'd be awesome to share this new way of working with a wider audience.

Nixhub: Search Historical Versions of Nix Packages

mikenikles — Mon, 17 Jul 2023 19:27:16 +0000

Article URL: https://www.jetpack.io/blog/introducing-nixhub/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36762800

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Heimdall: Making Operating Flink Deployments a Bit Easier

mikenikles — Mon, 10 Jul 2023 17:05:02 +0000

Article URL: https://sap1ens.com/blog/2023/07/09/heimdall-making-operating-flink-deployments-a-bit-easier/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36669283

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by mikenikles in "Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?"

mikenikles — Tue, 04 Jul 2023 22:39:22 +0000

https://www.mikenikles.com/

Best to follow me on Twitter or Bluesky though for up-to-date full-stack web development opinions.

New comment by mikenikles in "Codespaces but open-source, client-only, and unopinionated"

mikenikles — Wed, 21 Jun 2023 05:55:58 +0000

Local first, cloud optional is the only way (IMHO) we're going to get people off their local laptop development setups.

We need to support local dev environments first, with the exact same config a developer can then move to the cloud.

See https://github.com/jetpack-io/devbox for how this can be achieved and https://www.mikenikles.com/blog/dev-environments-in-the-clou... for my thoughts after 3 years of working in this space.

New comment by mikenikles in "Ending support for self-hosted Gitpod and moving our source to AGPL"

mikenikles — Thu, 08 Dec 2022 19:55:08 +0000

What about multi-region for anyone who has a remote team?

Real-time blockchain data access with Goldsky

mikenikles — Wed, 19 Oct 2022 13:23:14 +0000

Article URL: https://goldsky.com/blog/real-time-blockchain-data-access-with-goldsky

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33261750

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

Full Stack Web Development in the Cloud Course- Svelte, Postgres, Vercel, Gitpod

mikenikles — Mon, 13 Dec 2021 17:00:47 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUzaUJ3gEug

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29541446

Points: 7

# Comments: 0

New comment by mikenikles in "VS Code in the Browser for Everyone"

mikenikles — Tue, 28 Sep 2021 20:26:50 +0000

Hi, Mike from Gitpod here. This project does not use code-server. It is instead a very lightweight server added to the official open source VS Code repo from Microsoft.

We documented this in more detail in the "Source Code Organization" chapter at https://github.com/gitpod-io/openvscode-server/blob/main/doc....

As to where to submit PRs:

- Anything to do with running VS Code in a server context: gitpod-io/openvscode-server

- Anything else related to VS Code: microsoft/vscode

We have no intention of changing VS Code in any way or to add additional features to VS Code itself.

New comment by mikenikles in "Gitpod shipped GitHub a launch cake for Codespaces"

mikenikles — Fri, 03 Sep 2021 23:07:36 +0000

Thanks for the many details! We continue to investigate that...

I noticed the same with the Brave browser a few months ago, but when we dropped Google Analytics it worked with Brave.

Diving deeper into what uBlock Origin does...

Thanks!

New comment by mikenikles in "Gitpod shipped GitHub a launch cake for Codespaces"

mikenikles — Fri, 03 Sep 2021 18:22:24 +0000

That's on me, although I haven't quite figured out what causes it :). It's all static pages.

I'm going to completely remove all Javascript on pages that don't need it, which is most of them.

Investigation continues...