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Posted by sqliteonline 1 day ago

Show HN: SQLite Online – 11 years of solo development, 11K daily users(sqliteonline.com)
447 points | 137 commentspage 3
Towaway69 1 day ago|
Great job and many kudos for the determination to maintain a tool for 11 years!

I thankfully have no use for the tool since I no longer have to code SQL - the world is a better place for it.

It raises the question how many more "bus tools"[1] are there? Tools maintained and developed by a single developer with whom, when hit by a bus, the tool would die.

[1] no offence meant but "bus developers" is the term I learnt, it seems a little cruel to speak of folks being hit by buses - is there something better nowadays?

sqliteonline 1 day ago||
Thank you. Our entire life is but a moment: something disappears, and something new emerges.
therealdrag0 1 day ago||
I have heard something like “lottery factor” as a more pleasant term. Though personally bus doesn’t bother me.
qarthandyc 1 day ago||
I'd highly suggest getting a designer, or somehow thinking with more of a product mindset? I fail to understand what it does quickly, which shouldn't happen to a potential customer.
awongh 1 day ago||
11k daily users is very good even without this so-called "product mindset"!
senordevnyc 1 day ago|||
The dev is asking on the site for people to support the development with subscriptions, but they say here they have basically zero subscribers. So 11k daily users hasn't translated to something that people want to actually pay to support. That could change.
SuperHeavy256 1 day ago|||
Imagine how many more users could be using if it had a product mindset.
sqliteonline 1 day ago|||
Thank you! I will strive to improve the interface and make it more intuitive.
alberth 1 day ago|||
It’s possible you’re not the target audience?
anamexis 1 day ago||
I guess if the target audience is people who already know what it is?
alberth 1 day ago||
Devils advocate: when Google launched it was just a blank form field.

Similar to ChatGPT.

But those who knew what it is, their usage is huge.

tantalor 1 day ago||
That's an absurd comparison.

At the time there were dozens of search engines and new ones every day. Everybody knew what search engines were, and what they offered. Google did not invent the form field -> SRP pattern; people were already used to that. Google was able to rise above the field because 1. yes the homepage was nice, but more importantly 2. the results were so much better than competitors.

I don't understand the comparison to SQLite online because what are the well-known competitors, and what is it even trying to do?

Not even going to touch the ChatGPT comparison.

conductr 1 day ago||
This is accurate. Back then nobody went to google and was confused when it was just an input box. They went there already knowing it was a search engine and that search engines needed input. They came back because the results were so good (relative to competitors).

The clean interface just stood out as the other competitors at the time we're bogged down by ads. So a quick loading page in a time of slow internet connections, was a very nice user-centric feature.

maelito 1 day ago|||
No, please. Don't inflate the team to something that would need investors. It's cool that an alter-Web can exist without 10 person teams.
sqliteonline 1 day ago|||
It is quite possible that this will be the case.
igregoryca 1 day ago||||
If you're making enough money, you can hire a designer every now and then to tell you where your UX suffers and how to fix it. No investors necessary.

(or: just solicit feedback in a space frequented by designers, and harness the power of being wrong on the internet ;)

rs186 1 day ago|||
It is very straightforward to hire UX designer in a contract, or even just ask ChatGPT to design an interface that is better than a software engineer's minimum effort (and possibly experience) in UX.
qarthandyc 1 day ago||
And what currency is it in? Seems so odd to not put it in dollars or euros.

And FURTHERMORE, the $ sign is incorrectly to the right of the numbers. It should be $10. Personally, this shows such a lack of product thinking, and simply hacking away at a tool instead of delivering a service.

ezfe 1 day ago||
I mean, it does clearly say it's 1,000₽ which is Russian rubles. Why would the price be listed in dollars if it's not being collected in dollars?
BiraIgnacio 1 day ago||
thank you for doing this, congratulations
aidenn0 1 day ago||
What is it?
TiredOfLife 1 day ago||
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 1 day ago||
Could you please advise where the issue might be?
kijin 1 day ago||
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 1 day ago||
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 1 day ago||
Or use the latest llms for translation
recursive 1 day ago||
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".
jve 1 day ago||
The paid subscription lists this feature:

> No auto-renewal

That's not subscription.

sqliteonline 1 day ago||
I aim to make the product convenient and as straightforward as possible. It's better to extend its use when needed than to worry about when to stop.
ezfe 1 day ago||
The person is saying that the description says "subscription" which by definition automatically renews
dangus 1 day ago||
Not the definition of a subscription. See: magazines, traditionally purchased with one-time annual payments.
ezfe 1 day ago||
Well, those still recur automatically
dangus 1 day ago||
To my recollection, not the old fashioned kind where you send in a check/money order for the annual subscription.
ezfe 9 hours ago||
No, I mean they recur monthly for the prepaid duration. The SQLite online is simply 1 term of access. There's no recurrence of any kind.
encom 1 day ago||
Sure it is. A subscription's defining trait is continuity of access contingent on periodic renewal, whether manual or automatic. People subscribed to things way before online payments or even credit cards were common. A modern, if niche, example is Tarsnap.com. Once in a while, I get an email from Colin telling me to pay up if I don't want my backups deleted.
tonyhart7 1 day ago||
this is fire. I didn't know that it have remote+memory db for testing
gjvc 1 day ago||
suggest adding "execute query on ctrl-return"
sqliteonline 1 day ago|
Use Shift + Enter to run the script.
caohongyuan 1 day ago||
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