Show HN: SQLite Online – 11 years of solo development, 11K daily users

Posted by sqliteonline 10/13/2025

Show HN: SQLite Online – 11 years of solo development, 11K daily users(sqliteonline.com)

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BinaryIgor 10/13/2025|

How do you make money?

ray_v 10/15/2025|

Usually people start off by getting a job or apprenticeship. But from there, the sky is the limit! /s

BinaryIgor 10/16/2025||

Oh; I meant on this website, of course :) Not generally in life

TiredOfLife 10/13/2025||

Don't localise messages if you don't have anyone to proofread. Browsers have built in translation nowadays that users can activate if they need.

sqliteonline 10/13/2025||

Could you please advise where the issue might be?

kijin 10/13/2025||

Not the parent, but I see that several messages related to buying a subscription are translated into the locale of my browser. In my language, it just feels a little amateurish. In other languages, perhaps it might contain something totally wrong.

So it will be safer to just use languages you are comfortable with, like English and Russian. Especially on pages that concern money. :)

sqliteonline 10/13/2025||

Thank you. I used an LLM for translation, hoping to achieve a high-quality result and make the service convenient for users. It seems I was mistaken.

dcreater 10/13/2025||

Or use the latest llms for translation

recursive 10/13/2025||

The sufficiently-late LLM seems a bit like a true Scotsman. After your comment, the OP explained that they did, in fact, use an LLM for translation. No info about whether it was "the latest".

sqliteonline 10/15/2025||

Thank you all! Special thanks to those who offered a fresh perspective and helped reveal the project’s challenges.

bilekas 10/14/2025||

> The server is unavailable, contact your network administrator. Please try again in a few minutes.

Also where is it based ? And your payment processor ?

I like to support learning platforms like this financially, when they work of course, but that's going to be a problem if you're based in Russia.

scottmcdot 10/14/2025||

Thanks for tool! I've been using this for conducting interviews.

hoherd 10/13/2025||

I immediately tried to run .schema and a syntax error was returned.

tuveson 10/14/2025|

I assume this is because sqliteonline is using the sqlite library, not running the literal sqlite command line application. Per item 7 in the faq (https://sqlite.org/faq.html), the way to get that info would be to run something like the following:

SELECT * FROM sqlite_schema WHERE type='table' ORDER BY name;

The website does seem to correctly return the names/schemas of whatever tables you've created if you run the command above, but the editor (incorrectly) adds red squigglies around the command, since I guess it doesn't realize this is allowed.

talljohnson1234 10/14/2025||

This is a really nice tool, I use to practise my SQLite.

erickf1 10/13/2025||

This reminds me a lot of RavenDB. I'm impressed.

dsamy 10/13/2025||

Amazing that SQLite Online has survived solo for 11 years. What technical or business pivots have kept it alive (and relevant) across changing web stacks and user expectations?

pdyc 10/13/2025|

wow that's a lot of users, congratulations. It says sqliteonline but it seems you support other db's as well.

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