Hacker News: upmostlyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=upmostlyHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Tue, 16 Jun 2026 02:18:30 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by upmostly in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)"]]>Building DB Pro [1]

A complete desktop app for browsing and editing your Postgres, MySQL, SQLite data, creating beautiful dashboards, and soon designing automated workflows for repeat tasks.

[1] https://dbpro.app

I've kept a devlog of the last 10 months of building DB Pro, which has been the best way to bring users to the product. I'd highly recommend folks starting a devlog if they can.

]]>Sun, 14 Jun 2026 20:42:30 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48532436upmostlyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48532436https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48532436<![CDATA[New comment by upmostly in "I Miss Terry Pratchett"]]>That's fine. That's not what I dislike.

What I dislike is "AI SLOP" seems to be the default response to anything remotely creative anymore.

]]>Sat, 23 May 2026 15:58:45 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48248736upmostlyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48248736https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48248736<![CDATA[New comment by upmostly in "I Miss Terry Pratchett"]]>Finished reading the article, having really enjoyed it (I grew up with Terry's books), came back to the HN comments and the top comment is someone ranting "dIS iS aye-EyE sLoP"

What a terrible, terrible timeline we live in now. Seriously. I genuinely hate it.

]]>Sat, 23 May 2026 14:55:59 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48248237upmostlyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48248237https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48248237<![CDATA[New comment by upmostly in "No more JetBrains products for me"]]>We'll add an option in the next version to choose if you want to share usage data.

Stay tuned for v2.1.4, coming this week.

]]>Tue, 19 May 2026 11:36:13 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48191999upmostlyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48191999https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48191999<![CDATA[New comment by upmostly in "No More JetBrains Products for Me"]]>We're building a product [1] to compete with DataGrip, a JetBrains product.

Many people told us we were crazy to compete with such a mature product as DataGrip before we got started.

It has been fascinating to speak to people who use database apps and to learn about their experiences.

Now, we have many, many customers telling us that they have cancelled their DataGrip/JetBrains sub and have switched to using our product, mainly due to speed but also cost.

Their products are really, really slow.

[1] https://dbpro.app

]]>Mon, 18 May 2026 21:13:34 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48185716upmostlyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48185716https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48185716<![CDATA[New comment by upmostly in "How can Apple deal with the memory shortage?"]]>I read this as satire.

]]>Thu, 14 May 2026 06:40:05 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48131893upmostlyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48131893https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48131893<![CDATA[New comment by upmostly in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)"]]>I'm building DB Pro, a modern, beautiful, and now fully self-hosted database client for desktop and web.

Just launched Studio, which is the self-hosted version of DB Pro.

I also keep a devlog. #9 was just published to YouTube.

Self-Host Your Own Database Client | DB Pro Devlog #9 https://youtu.be/MJvSrJGtk70

[1]https://dbpro.app

]]>Sun, 10 May 2026 22:04:29 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48088598upmostlyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48088598https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48088598<![CDATA[Show HN: DB Pro Studio – Self-hostable collaborative database client]]>Article URL: https://www.dbpro.app/studio

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47889807

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

]]>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 13:18:14 +0000https://www.dbpro.app/studioupmostlyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47889807https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47889807<![CDATA[New comment by upmostly in "Show HN: Shader Lab, like Photoshop but for shaders"]]>Honest question: If my web browser struggles to even render the preview, why in god's name would I put any of these presets on a production webpage?

]]>Sun, 19 Apr 2026 18:34:20 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47826487upmostlyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47826487https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47826487<![CDATA[New comment by upmostly in "Game devs explain the tricks involved with letting you pause a game"]]>One of my favourite things of being on HN is reading comments like this. Namely, devs who worked on games I played growing up. I absolutely love hearing stories from their past about little technical nuances like this comment. The more technical / specific, the better.

I'd honestly love to compile a book of "war stories" told by devs like netcoyote.

Maybe I will.

Net, if you're interested, hit me up.

]]>Sun, 19 Apr 2026 17:24:12 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47825920upmostlyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47825920https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47825920<![CDATA[New comment by upmostly in "Do you even need a database?"]]>Seeing the Rust 1M benches were an amazing reminder as to how fast stuff really is.

]]>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 16:40:40 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47781625upmostlyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47781625https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47781625<![CDATA[New comment by upmostly in "Do you even need a database?"]]>100%.

Premature optimisation I believe that's called.

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

]]>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 16:39:12 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47781602upmostlyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47781602https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47781602<![CDATA[New comment by upmostly in "Do you even need a database?"]]>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.

]]>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 13:51:06 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47778955upmostlyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47778955https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47778955<![CDATA[New comment by upmostly in "Do you even need a database?"]]>Exactly. And most apps don't get there and therefore don't need it.

]]>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 13:49:03 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47778936upmostlyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47778936https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47778936<![CDATA[New comment by upmostly in "Do you even need a database?"]]>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.

]]>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 13:18:00 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47778568upmostlyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47778568https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47778568<![CDATA[New comment by upmostly in "Allbirds, Inc. Announces Expansion into AI Compute Infrastructure"]]>Literally had to check the date with this one.

What?!

]]>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 12:32:11 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47778143upmostlyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47778143https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47778143<![CDATA[Do you even need a database?]]>Article URL: https://www.dbpro.app/blog/do-you-even-need-a-database

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

Points: 310

# Comments: 298

]]>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 12:26:11 +0000https://www.dbpro.app/blog/do-you-even-need-a-databaseupmostlyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47778086https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47778086<![CDATA[New comment by upmostly in "Show HN: boringBar – a taskbar-style dock replacement for macOS"]]>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

]]>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 05:14:00 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47747849upmostlyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47747849https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47747849<![CDATA[New comment by upmostly in "Show HN: CSS Studio. Design by hand, code by agent"]]>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

]]>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 17:00:51 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47706175upmostlyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47706175https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47706175<![CDATA[New comment by upmostly in "Chess in SQL"]]>Thank you! That means a lot.

]]>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 18:18:30 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47604528upmostlyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47604528https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47604528