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Congrats on launching, but this feels like an uphill climb to get paying customers. You need to find the intersection of potential customers that know SQL but don't want to use one of the open source options. (perhaps data analysts working in restricted environments where the only option is a web browser)

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this is a tarpit idea I've fallen into multiple times. It's really hard to make money from a desktop SQL client, let alone now that DuckDB has a good, free UI.

Can you use that with for instance a postgres server? I thought it would only work with DuckDB (sqlite?) databases.

Yes, DuckDB has a postgres extension which works via libpq.

Other extensions include but aren't limited to: MySQL, AWS, Azure, Excel, Iceberg, JSON

https://duckdb.org/docs/stable/extensions/postgres.html

As OSX user... if there is a nice pristine OSX app (like Postico) I will pay for it even if theres a free version (easily, hands down) if the UI/UX is nice, and pro version has extra features. So I'm definitely someone who would pay.

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