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1ilit··on Ask HN: Does anyone enjoy work anymore?
I do most of the time. I work for at a startup plus have my own big side project, most things are fast-paced and AI fits well with the load and the pace. I still get the high when building big features, it's different but still gives me the kick
1ilit··on Show HN: DrawDB – turn any live database into an ER diagram with one query
Try it at https://www.drawdb.app/editor, then File > Import from database.

Happy to hear your feedback

1ilit··on Ask HN: Do you have side-projects that generate >$500 revenue/month?
I have https://www.drawdb.app/ a database diagram editor. It generated a bit more than half of my 9-5 salary this month. ~3 years open-source and 3 months of building pro and now trying to figure out all the non-development parts of running it. Fingers crossed this month wasn't an outlier
1ilit··on Show HN: Capo-S3 – a typed, async-first S3 client for Python
yaay! love seeing fellow armenians:)))
1ilit··on My accent costs me 30 IQ points on Zoom. So we built an ML model to fix it
On-device CPU inference is the real flex here. Optimization probably mattered as much as modeling.
1ilit··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2025)
drawDB - a database diagram editor

https://github.com/drawdb-io/drawdb

Added version control last month, now working on generating migrations based on the versions

1ilit··on Show HN: DrawDB – open-source online database diagram editor (a retro)
>the app asked me for access to read text and images of my clipboard yeah, that's the browser asking for permission to read and write to the clipboard

>it seems like your app can read anything of my clipboard at any time only when you paste, the app reads the latest entry in your clipboard, and only if it is a valid json object of a table, note, or subject area, it gets imported

just using the clipboard api: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Clipboard_A...

1ilit··on Show HN: DrawDB – open-source online database diagram editor (a retro)
thanks! would love to connect
1ilit··on Show HN: DrawDB – open-source online database diagram editor (a retro)
good point
1ilit··on Show HN: DrawDB – open-source online database diagram editor (a retro)
>If 100 people per month can pay 50$, that's 5k which is very nice for a side project!

sounds too good to be true xd

>For myself, I absolutely would love this as a Django plugin!

after migrations, will be adding orms. or some plug in system for anyone to add whatever they want. don't know how but would be a fun feature to work on

1ilit··on Show HN: DrawDB – open-source online database diagram editor (a retro)
i had a buy me a coffee link for a while. then idk what got into me and i starting feeling bad for the $20 someone donated
1ilit··on Show HN: DrawDB – open-source online database diagram editor (a retro)
yep, parser issues. will report it, thanks for letting me know
1ilit··on Show HN: DrawDB – open-source online database diagram editor (a retro)
where i'm currently based, every single cent that can be considered income is tracked and taxed. plus i would have to declare its origin. so there's definitely some legal set up before monetization
1ilit··on Show HN: DrawDB – open-source online database diagram editor (a retro)
yeah, we call our end-of-year 'summaries' 'retros' at work, i put it there without even thinking
1ilit··on Show HN: DrawDB – open-source online database diagram editor (a retro)
hehe mine was up and running way before theirs. but we have diverged quite a bit. might be biased but i think mine is easier to jump right in. mine is more like the draw.io of database editors while theirs is the miro, yk?
1ilit··on Show HN: DrawDB – open-source online database diagram editor (a retro)
appreciate it!
1ilit··on Show HN: DrawDB – open-source online database diagram editor (a retro)
appreciate it!
1ilit··on Show HN: DrawDB – open-source online database diagram editor (a retro)
thank you!

regarding the sql import, it breaks because of the parser. i'm using a 3rd party parser to parse sql and pull out everything needed for the diagram. i'll report it to them, thanks for letting me know

1ilit··on Show HN: DrawDB – open-source online database diagram editor (a retro)
Coming... https://imgur.com/a/U8cbJ5Y. Working on versioning, based on which migrations will be generated.
1ilit··on Show HN: DrawDB – open-source online database diagram editor (a retro)
Thank you! Yeah we don't have views yet, but will
1ilit··on Show HN: DrawDB – open-source online database diagram editor (a retro)
Thanks! No library. Just svg, foreign objects, and event listeners
1ilit··on Show HN: Make SVGs interactive in React with 1 line
been there, done that
1ilit··on Show HN: Make SVGs interactive in React with 1 line
looks cool, you should probably gitignore some of the dirs there though
1ilit··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025)
Have been building drawDB[1] for a while now. It's a database schema visualizer. Currently working on adding support for oracle databases. Wrote a parser[2] to allow importing from oracle sql. Have been struggling with motivation though, the pieces are pretty much there but I've been procrastinating on putting it all together. This has been my main side project for almost 2 years now.. I miss the feeling of novelty.. but can't come up with something worth building..idk

[1] https://github.com/drawdb-io/drawdb

[2] https://github.com/1ilit/oracle-sql-parser

1ilit··on Show HN: Visualize database schemas with a single query
Reminds me a lot of my drawDB: https://www.drawdb.app/. *Not a shameless plug, actually*
1ilit··on Ask HN: How much do you spend on hosting? Share traffic/user metrics
It's https://www.drawdb.app/. It blew up after I opensourced it. I got lucky it got picked up on hackernews and twitter
1ilit··on Why we picked AGPL
None. I made it for people to use and open sourced for people to see and contribute. I just don't want someone else to sell it. That's it.
1ilit··on Why we picked AGPL
I totally get this. I recently changed the license on my project from MIT to AGPL after getting a dm from someone interested in buying the project. I make absolutely no money at the moment, if anything I'm paying out of pocket for the domain, and don't think will any time soon. My only goal was to protect the project from getting commercialized by someone else. I've gotten questions about it and have been questioning whether I got too scared that someone might monetize what I worked so hard on.
1ilit··on Ask HN: How much do you spend on hosting? Share traffic/user metrics
I have a project that has the frontend hosted on Vercel and a small simple service on Render both on the free plans. Vercel analytics is off at the moment because I've hit the limit for the free plan, but as of last week we got 1600-1700 unique visitors daily on average. In the last 30 days, my deployment has had 1.6 million edge requests and consumed about 146GB for fast data transfer. You can probably get away with the free plans for a moderate amount of traffic and then scale as needed.
1ilit··on Ask HN: What projects are you working on?
I'm working on https://github.com/drawdb-io/drawdb trying to optimize the editor and have it lag less when the number of tables increases. Also have some highly requested features I'd like to implement before launching on Product Hunt.

Then I wanted a change of pace and started on something so ambitious that it's stupid... I'm trying to make a web browser from scratch I guess. So far tokenizing the html is going fine but I'm not sure how far I'll be able to get.

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