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New comment by mootoday in "When AI writes the software, who verifies it?"

mootoday — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 05:57:56 +0000

AI of course

New comment by mootoday in "Ask HN: Share your vibe coded project"

mootoday — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 12:57:40 +0000

It's the SQL client I've always wished I had. It's a desktop app, but I made it work in the browser too thanks to DuckDB Wasm.

Show HN: Interactive SQL Tutorial with a visual query builder

mootoday — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 11:03:10 +0000

Hi,

https://seaquel.app/learn-sql is an interactive SQL tutorial with a visual query builder.

JOINs, CTEs, subqueries can be difficult to understand. With the visual builder and SQL editor side-by-side, I hope these concepts are easier to understand.

FWIW, the tutorial is part of Seaquel, the SQL client I've always wished I had. I showed that to HN a few weeks ago.

Curious to hear what you think of the tutorial.

Thanks

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47033598

Points: 2

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New comment by mootoday in "The Last Year of Localhost"

mootoday — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 22:26:46 +0000

And now there's a skill to do just that.

https://cloudrouter.dev/

New comment by mootoday in "The Last Year of Localhost"

mootoday — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 18:45:53 +0000

You don't need a vendor-locked solution for AI agents to work in their own isolated environments :-).

- https://sprites.dev - https://mise.jdx.dev - https://fnox.jdx.dev

Develop a small API that accepts a prompt, starts a sprite sandbox, and then you wait for the AI agent to open a pull request.

I developed that in less than a week and now my client owns the code, can customize it to their needs, and if they want to use a different compute environment, they can with minimal code changes needed.

New comment by mootoday in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026)"

mootoday — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 05:49:59 +0000

https://seaquel.app

Month 2 of building the SQL client I've always wished I had.

One feature I'm especially proud of is the visual query builder. Drag & drop to build SQL queries.

There's also an entire SQL tutorial section for anyone who wants to learn or refresh SQL knowledge.

New comment by mootoday in "Why we built our own background agent"

mootoday — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 16:38:07 +0000

I built something similar after reading the blog post, based on sprites.dev.

A day of work to get the prototype working and a few hours the next day to allow multiple users to authenticate.

It's surprisingly simple.

New comment by mootoday in "Why we built our own background agent"

mootoday — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 16:35:40 +0000

After reading the article, I built a tool like that with sprites.dev. There's a websocket to communicate stdout and stderr to the client.

Web app submits the prompt, a sandbox starts on sprites.dev and any Claude output in the sandbox gets piped to the web app for display.

Not sure I can open source it as it's something I built for a client, but ask if you have any questions.

New comment by mootoday in "Show HN: A vibe-coded database GUI"

mootoday — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 16:15:20 +0000

Yeah, I've noticed similar things with my projects. Hard to avoid these days I think.

Awesome, thanks for being an early adopter!

I got some great feedback already, so I'll continue building it out.

Roadmap: - Release binaries for Intel Mac, Linux, Windows - Add / test support for more database engines - Wrap up the LLM integration

Holidays are coming up, it may be a productive time haha

New comment by mootoday in "Show HN: A vibe-coded database GUI"

mootoday — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 15:26:37 +0000

I'm sure everyone has their own tolerance for what is and isn't maintainable :). For me, not knowing what code exists, where it is, how it fits together, and stuffing it all in one main file feels like a recipe for trouble down the road. Sure, I could probably tell the LLM to split the main file into modules and ask it to refactor code etc.

However, from personal experience I'm a lot more efficient when I use LLMs to help with tedious, boilerplate-like code writing but I remain in control over structuring the project so it's maintainable by more than machines only.

I use LLMs every day to write tests for example, it's a massive time saving and I wouldn't want to write tests manually ever again.

New comment by mootoday in "Show HN: A vibe-coded database GUI"

mootoday — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 15:22:40 +0000

Hey, I did not. As mcbetz mentioned, I tried vibe-coding and anything you see is generated by LLMs. He linked to my blog post where I summarized the journey.

ZenQuery looks nice, I like the focus on supporting regular files.

Show HN: A vibe-coded database GUI

mootoday — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 06:15:14 +0000

Article URL: https://seaquel.app

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46362900

Points: 5

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New comment by mootoday in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)"

mootoday — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 21:46:01 +0000

There we go, all set up!

https://github.com/WebstoneHQ/seaquel

New comment by mootoday in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)"

mootoday — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 03:10:01 +0000

It was frictionless to get everything up and running.

Communication between the frontend and backend is via an `invoke` method, easy as pie :).

It's not open source, but once I get the Apple developer stuff all done, I'll add an auto-update feature and open source it.

New comment by mootoday in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)"

mootoday — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 23:35:28 +0000

A database desktop client, built with Tauri & SvelteKit.

"But there are many already!" I hear the crowd exclaim.

I respond, "Yes, but..."

It's really something I want for myself. Lightweight, as fast as humanly possible, extensible via plugins (in fact the entire app is mostly plugins, with a small core to glue it together), and a tiny bit of LLM (call it AI if you wish) integration to ask questions about the database or generate/review queries.

New comment by mootoday in "Ask HN: Is it worth building a database GUI?"

mootoday — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 06:26:19 +0000

That's how I feel about most visual database clients I've used over the years...

It's something I hear from many others too, hence my interest in trying to build an incredibly fast and lightweight product.

New comment by mootoday in "Ask HN: Is it worth building a database GUI?"

mootoday — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 06:24:59 +0000

Thanks for your insights. What made you stop working on it?

The insomnia creator also has a Tauri http client now called Yaak(.app). A huge inspiration to work on my database client.

Ask HN: Is it worth building a database GUI?

mootoday — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 19:00:01 +0000

I'm considering to develop a database GUI based on either Tauri & Svelte or gpui.rs.

Why? For fun, but if it turns out to become a lifestyle business, even better :-).

No seriously, why? The database GUIs I know are either slow, pricey, or both. They also have so many features, it impacts the user experience.

I want a basic tool where I can view databases, tables, edit data. I also want to integrate a bring-your-own LLM key to ask questions about the database.

Does this resonate with anyone? Would you use it if it existed?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46196221

Points: 2

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New comment by mootoday in "Iced 0.14 has been released (Rust GUI library)"

mootoday — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 04:16:51 +0000

Thank you, I appreciate the in-depth opinion! I think Tauri with SvelteKit is going to be my first prototype, likely followed by gpui because I'm impressed by Zed which is built with gpui.

Also, TIL about PopOS, thank you!

New comment by mootoday in "Iced 0.14 has been released (Rust GUI library)"

mootoday — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 00:38:14 +0000

I recently started to get an interest in writing a GUI with Rust. In particular, a database GUI.

Initially, I thought Tauri with Svelte. Then I learned about gpui (https://www.gpui.rs/) and I'm intrigued.

TIL about iced, which seems to have been around for a while.

Before I embark on building a prototype UI for my app with all three libraries, does anyone have hands-on experience they can share?