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rathboma

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Founder of https://beekeeperstudio.io - open source SQL GUI for MacOS, Linux, and Windows.

Data & UX consulting @ https://rathbonelabs.com. Proud dad.

Formerly: Kickbox (acquired), Shoutlet (acquired), Foursquare (alive), Drop.io (acquired)

Founded: 99Inbound (acquired), Beekeeper Data (dead)

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rathboma··on Incident Report: May 19, 2026 – GCP Account Suspension
Yes, I use DO with Hatchbox. It is a perfect combo. Been using for more and more projects.
rathboma··on Incident Report: May 19, 2026 – GCP Account Suspension
Hatchbox + Digital Ocean is an unbeatable combo and provides Railway-like automation with self-owned infra.
rathboma··on Agency Agents – complete AI agency with specialized experts
A complete AI agency at your fingertips - From frontend wizards to Reddit community ninjas, from whimsy injectors to reality checkers. Each agent is a specialized expert with personality, processes, and proven deliverables.
rathboma··on Show HN: Geo Racers – Race from London to Tokyo on a single bus pass
That'd be cool! Or maybe just going to any train/bus station gives you the timetables for all of them, so you don't have to add another thing.

Def ran into issues on my second play - there were no trains from Waterloo, nor any boats from Plymouth or Portsmouth.

Shows a lot of promise. Can't wait for it to improve some of the core systems just a little, will be very addictive.

rathboma··on Show HN: Geo Racers – Race from London to Tokyo on a single bus pass
Some other features I'd love to see: - Ability to check transit timetables without going there - Metros / Tubes / Subways for in-city transit

Hit a wall going to Plymouth when I should have gone to Portsmouth, but had no way to check which one had the ferry I needed.

rathboma··on Show HN: Geo Racers – Race from London to Tokyo on a single bus pass
So cool! Couple of minor bugs - I can click banks / hotels and use them without being near them, also many hotels in ex Paris do not show up as usable, neither does the Paris metro. Still, super fun to play.
rathboma··on I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA
Thanks for answering questions!

Do you think H1B visa holders looking to move to a Green Card (in coordination with their employer) should be concerned about rejected applications or other issues?

rathboma··on Data analytics in *seconds* with Haiku 4.5 and Beekeeper Studio
Available now in Beekeeper Studio, would love community feedback! Been using it today...man it's crazy good.
rathboma··on I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney, who does work for YC and startups. AMA
Thanks for doing an AMA!

Should folks on H1B visas who have an ongoing green card application via PERM be concerned at all?

Would you advise not traveling until the i-495 is filed?

rathboma··on Show HN: DrawDB – open-source online database diagram editor (a retro)
Hey! This is awesome! Great job :-)

I make Beekeeper Studio, another open source db tool (although v different), we started charging for a pro version 2 years ago. Would be cool to connect! I can tell you what we did and what did and didn't work - Matthew (at) beekeeperstudio (dot) io

rathboma··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2025)
Beekeeper Studio - open source database management app - https://beekeeperstudio.io - https://github.com/beekeeper-studio/beekeeper-studio

I need remote part/full time folks to help with the following:

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Marketing / Growth

Write blog posts, email sequences, landing pages, ads, videos, etc. Must be comfortable with Markdown and HTML/CSS. Goal: Help increase signups & conversions, reduce churn.

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Support & QA

Test the application, respond to customer requests, help triage GitHub. Write automated tests. Opportunities to do other stuff like coding / marketing if interested. Goal: Help our releases be rock-solid.

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Location preference: Global! If you're in Latin America I can pay well and that's perfect for timezone overlap.

Ping me: matthew [at] beekeeperstudio.io

rathboma··on Show HN: 2048 turned 10 this year, I built an updated version to celebrate
2048 is fantastic, and going full time on your project is a huge milestone. Congrats!
rathboma··on One-time purchase alternatives to popular subscription tools
Hey! I run Beekeeper Studio.

Here's why I price like I do:

I can't keep the lights on with one time payments, period. I just don't make enough money.

However as a consumer I prefer them.

My compromise is a subscription that provides a permanent benefit after 1 year. Access to any version of the app released in your subscription period. Forever.

I think it's really fair, and when I made the change I saw an immediate uptick in sales.

Renewal is still opt out though. Defaults matter.

rathboma··on 3K free SVG icons for popular brands
Automatic like for including Beekeeper Studio :-D.
rathboma··on Show HN: A web debugger an ex-Cloudflare team has been working on for 4 years
Hey! I'm Matthew (at) beekeeperstudio.io
rathboma··on Show HN: A web debugger an ex-Cloudflare team has been working on for 4 years
Do you think this would work as a bug reporting solution for a desktop app using electron?

I make beekeeper Studio and struggle with bug reports being very vague

rathboma··on Show HN: Ellipsis – Automated PR reviews and bug fixes
Signed up for Beekeeper Studio, no idea how well it performs for a desktop app written with electron and vue.js, but we'll see!

First two code reviews show no feedback.

rathboma··on Timescale acquires PopSQL
Congrats to the PopSQL team. Similar thing happened to Arctype about a year ago (acquired by ClickHouse), although at a much smaller scale.

Still small, independent, and profitable here at Beekeeper Studio. :-)

rathboma··on Framework Laptop 16 Review
No. It supports s0 sleep, not s3. It's my biggest problem with mine. I lose about 1% per hour.
rathboma··on Beekeeper Studio SQL editor 4.0 – Import. backup, restore, and bigquery
Can you ping me to explain 'not saving your connection by default'? That sounds like a bug or a bad UX decision as it does save in recent connections, even if you don't explicitly save it.

matthew [at] beekeeperstudio [dot] io

rathboma··on Beekeeper Studio SQL editor 4.0 – Import. backup, restore, and bigquery
YES! That's why I built Beekeeper Studio. Still have fond feelings for that app, especially the pancakes logo.
rathboma··on Beekeeper Studio SQL editor 4.0 – Import. backup, restore, and bigquery
They came first, I wouldn't say I copied them, but we both value good UX and app design. I actually copied an old Mac app called SequelPro, which I missed greatly when moving to PSQL and a Linux desktop OS :-).

When I started building Beekeeper there were 0 open source DB apps with good UX, especially on Linux. So that's why it exists.

I now have a paid version to support development as it has grown super quickly over the last 3 years.

rathboma··on Beekeeper Studio SQL editor 4.0 – Import. backup, restore, and bigquery
Thanks so much for using my app! <3
rathboma··on Beekeeper Studio SQL editor 4.0 – Import. backup, restore, and bigquery
I have a 40% off sale right now, which means its $51 for a year, if you cancel right away you still get lifetime access and 1 year of software updates.

I think that's a pretty fair price, but always happy to get more pricing feedback.

rathboma··on Beekeeper Studio SQL editor 4.0 – Import. backup, restore, and bigquery
It does! If it doesn't thats a bug, please file a ticket :-)
rathboma··on Beekeeper Studio SQL editor 4.0 – Import. backup, restore, and bigquery
Please use DBeaver, MySQL Workbench, or Navicat side by side with Beekeeper Studio and I think you'll understand how my UX philosophy differs.
rathboma··on Beekeeper Studio SQL editor 4.0 – Import. backup, restore, and bigquery
Oh, yeah sorry for the terrible title :-/.
rathboma··on Beekeeper Studio SQL editor 4.0 – Import. backup, restore, and bigquery
Hey! I'm the creator of Beekeeper Studio.

It's a similar value proposition as VSCode/Sublime Text vs IntelliJ. If you are in a database all day and need a big beefy IDE, Beekeeper Studio isn't for you.

I built Beekeeper Studio because I wanted an easy to use and intuitive GUI. I'm not a DBA, so using DBeaver or DataGrip required me to basically re-learn the whole app every time I used it, which I didn't have the patience for.

Hope that helps add some context :-)

rathboma··on Beekeeper Studio SQL editor 4.0 – Import. backup, restore, and bigquery
I made Beekeeper Studio because the lack of a good SQL editor on Linux drove me crazy. TablePlus is great on MacOS, but when I started it didn't even have a Linux version.

I have full feature parity across all OSes, which I'm pretty proud of as a one-man team (although I do have some AMAZING part time help)

rathboma··on Beekeeper Studio SQL editor 4.0 – Import. backup, restore, and bigquery
Thank you for using my app :-).
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