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PgElevator

6 points by leonardopriori ↗ HN
Dissatisfied with pgAdmin, we started to develop a new frontend for PostgreSQL as part of Google's "Angular Attack" hackathon. We would love to have your feedback on it. We are planning on open sourcing it on the following days.

Hackathon's Project Page: https://www.angularattack.com/entries/1965-elevador10

Screencast: http://youtu.be/BzSVDTjphVQ

8 comments

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herbst
Looks nice. A honest question tho, why? What is the use case for such tools? I usually don't want to have non-techs messing around in the DB and for me personally i don't see a benefit to the command line (i actually assume to be able to do way less than on the command line)
andersonsilva
I think it's a pgAdmin like project. It's obviously unfinished (normal for a 48 hours hackathon) but with great potential.
leonardopriori
If you have great experience and knowledge in command line tools, I believe using psql is a good way to go. Psql is a great tool, but I also would like a better gui.
a-saleh
I think such tool is targeted at you if:

a) you are a developer that needs to interact with a database

b) you don't have expertise with that database

i.e: I needed to develop against mongo some weeks ago, I normally don't do that and robomongo was a big help in this regard.

fabhomem
I always wanted a free alternative for pgAdmin. I hope the project continues... in open source.
bigato
Playing devil's advocate here, but why should I waste my time on it if the source code is not even available yet? Please make a 0.1 minimal release with clear and easy installation instructions and show me the code, and I'll be interested. But yeah, looks nice and usable. Hope it succeeds, since pgAdmin4 is taking too long to have any kind of public release.
wayn3
PgElevator should be the name of a chatbot that gives personalized Paul Graham-esque advice in exchange for your elevator pitch.
schappim
That's what I initially thought this was!