Why do you "hate" it? (such a strong word!) My only complaint is that I need to invalidate the connection every time I don't query anything for a few minutes, otherwise the next query hangs for like 50 seconds. But apart from that, I think it's great, especially for a free product. And the project is very active, it gets a new release about every 15 days.
I have NOT come across connection invalidation problem though.
Sounds like you messed up the connection settings, I have never had this problem using DBeaver for years across companies.
If not, you need some sort of admin interface (could be a couple forms) to address this properly so invalid data can't be plopped in OR any changes should be documented and sent to someone technical even if it's a typo fix. It seems fun and easy but production data isn't something you should wrap in an excel interface and give to any and everyone. $600 a year so your boss can update names and dates is kinda hard to justify as well.
As others mentioned, our current pricing is in line with higher tiers of other internal tools, mostly geared towards startups with revenue or funding. We're hoping to add cheaper (and free!) plans moving forward once we validate that we can make money from SMBs.
Early customers are using the product for customer support, order management, basic analytics dashboards, data entry. Good mix of technical and non-technical users within teams.
And dashbase looks like a well done product for a new project - what does you stack looks like frontend and backend ?
And have to agree with others that dashbase is pricey though!
It will be nearly impossible to convince management to pay $600 per year.
Can you tell about usecases of your early users who are paying for this ?