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New comment by upmostly in "Do you even need a database?"

upmostly — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 16:40:40 +0000

Seeing the Rust 1M benches were an amazing reminder as to how fast stuff really is.

New comment by upmostly in "Do you even need a database?"

upmostly — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 16:39:12 +0000

100%.

Premature optimisation I believe that's called.

I've seen it play out many times in engineering over the years.

New comment by upmostly in "Do you even need a database?"

upmostly — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 13:51:06 +0000

I'm feel like I could write another post: Do you even need serverless/Cloud because we've also been brainwashed into thinking we need to spend hundreds/thousands a month on AWS when a tiny VPS will do.

Similar sentiment.

New comment by upmostly in "Do you even need a database?"

upmostly — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 13:49:03 +0000

Exactly. And most apps don't get there and therefore don't need it.

New comment by upmostly in "Do you even need a database?"

upmostly — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 13:18:00 +0000

The irony isn’t lost on us, trust me. We spent a while debating whether to even publish this one.

But yeah, the page cache point is real and massively underappreciated. Modern infrastructure discourse skips past it almost entirely. A warm NVMe-backed file with the OS doing the caching is genuinely fast enough for most early-stage products.

New comment by upmostly in "Allbirds, Inc. Announces Expansion into AI Compute Infrastructure"

upmostly — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 12:32:11 +0000

Literally had to check the date with this one.

What?!

Do you even need a database?

upmostly — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 12:26:11 +0000

Article URL: https://www.dbpro.app/blog/do-you-even-need-a-database

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47778086

Points: 290

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New comment by upmostly in "Show HN: boringBar – a taskbar-style dock replacement for macOS"

upmostly — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 05:14:00 +0000

We went through the exact same dilemma with our product [1]. For desktop apps, one-off with a defined support window just feels right.

Users get certainty, and you still have a clear path to future revenue when that window expires.

Subscription makes a lot more sense once you’re in cloud/collaborative territory which we've just entered. Sounds like you landed in a good place with this split.

[1] https://dbpro.app/pricing

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

upmostly — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 17:00:51 +0000

This comment was surprising to me.

I never considered that people want to watch a video in this day and age when they can try the real thing.

Perhaps I've fallen into that trap with the product [1] I'm building. I have a "Live Demo" button on the landing page and thought that would be enough? I'm going to reconsider...

1. https://dbpro.app

New comment by upmostly in "Chess in SQL"

upmostly — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 18:18:30 +0000

Thank you! That means a lot.

New comment by upmostly in "Chess in SQL"

upmostly — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 16:57:25 +0000

Interesting. I'm a big fan of MMORPGs so hearing that this is how they were made is really cool.

I've always wondered what kind of stack games like EverQuest were built on.

New comment by upmostly in "Chess in SQL"

upmostly — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 08:37:52 +0000

I thought about it, but, not surprisingly, that already exists.

https://pypi.org/project/chessql/

New comment by upmostly in "Chess in SQL"

upmostly — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 08:37:19 +0000

Thank you, and thanks for highlighting that. I'll take a look now.

New comment by upmostly in "Copilot edited an ad into my PR"

upmostly — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 06:50:35 +0000

Isn't this the same as

"Sent from my iPhone"?

New comment by upmostly in "Chess in SQL"

upmostly — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 13:28:45 +0000

Author here.

I had the idea of building a working Chess game using purely SQL.

The chess framing is a bit of a trojan horse, honestly. The actual point is that SQL can represent any stateful 2D grid. Calendars, heatmaps, seating plans, game of life. The schema is always the same: two coordinate columns and a value. The pivot query doesn't change.

A few people have asked why not just use a 64-char string or an array type. You could! But you lose all the relational goodness: joins, aggregations, filtering by piece type. SELECT COUNT(*) FROM board WHERE piece = '♙' just works.

Chess in SQL

upmostly — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 13:25:16 +0000

Article URL: https://www.dbpro.app/blog/chess-in-pure-sql

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47562961

Points: 187

# Comments: 47

New comment by upmostly in "Marketing for Founders"

upmostly — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 13:19:25 +0000

Are we, though?

My experience has been almost all positive.

Devs love to give feedback. Devs have decent paying jobs, and therefore money to purchase devtools (ours is $79) Devs love trying out new things and being early adopters.

Why is it a terrible market?

New comment by upmostly in "Marketing for Founders"

upmostly — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 04:45:31 +0000

I'm building and marketing a database client for the last 5 months, and what worked for me was:

1. Keeping a consistent devlog on YouTube. It's the #1 source of traffic.

2. Getting a rank 1, page 1 HN post for a technical blog post related to our product.

3. Word of mouth. It's slow, but it works.

Just thought I'd chip in. The devlogs work the best though. Plus they keep momentum.

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

upmostly — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 04:27:42 +0000

I'm building DB Pro, a better database client.

I just released support for dashboards. I've kept a devlog for the past 6 months.

https://youtu.be/EEA73e6MH1c

And the biggest update is coming soon, DB Pro Cloud, which will let you connect to and manage any database through your browser as well as collaborate with your team.

Imagine Postman but for databases.

https://dbpro.app

Show HN: DB Pro Studio – A self-hosted, collaborative database client

upmostly — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 18:15:27 +0000

Article URL: https://www.dbpro.app/studio

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46992693

Points: 1

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