1ilit
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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
yaay! love seeing fellow armenians:)))
Posted by
1ilit on Thursday September 03, 2026 @05:56PM
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https://www.drawdb.app/
2 years ago I launched drawDB on here. It was my very first project that I open-sourced and it ended up going kinda viral. A month ago I launched drawDB Pro for solo devs and teams. It was actually my manager that encouraged me to go build it to help with my promotion :3The project has come a long long way. It started as a simple canvas with local storage and now we have proper cloud storage,...
On-device CPU inference is the real flex here. Optimization probably mattered as much as modeling.
>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...
thanks! would love to connect
>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
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
yep, parser issues. will report it, thanks for letting me know
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
yeah, we call our end-of-year 'summaries' 'retros' at work, i put it there without even thinking
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?
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
Thank you! Yeah we don't have views yet, but will
Thanks! No library. Just svg, foreign objects, and event listeners
Posted by
1ilit on Tuesday April 08, 2025 @08:20PM
from the show-hn dept.
https://www.drawdb.app/
One year ago I open-sourced my very first 'real' project and shared it here. I was a college student in my senior year and desperately looking for a job. At the time of sharing it i couldn't even afford a domain and naively let someone buy the one i had my eyes on lol. It's been a hell of a year with this blowing up, me moving to another country, and switching 2 jobs.In a year we somehow...
looks cool, you should probably gitignore some of the dirs there though
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
Posted by
1ilit on Saturday March 29, 2025 @09:39AM
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Posted by
1ilit on Thursday March 20, 2025 @01:34PM
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Hey all! How do you land freelancing gigs? Are you on fiverr, upwork, on anywhere else? How do you get some action?
Posted by
1ilit on Sunday January 19, 2025 @12:52PM
from the show-hn dept.
https://github.com/1ilit/oracle-sql-parser
Needed an oracle sql parser, didn't find one, so wrote one myself
It's
https://www.drawdb.app/. It blew up after I opensourced it. I got lucky it got picked up on hackernews and twitter
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.