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Closed source, non self-hosted in 2026? Nah.

What do you guys have that's better than a self-hosted, open source extensible QA AI tool like Mira?

[1] https://miracode.ai

We built a much simpler alternative to this over complicated mess that is Hex.

If you're interested in using it, you can 1-click deploy.

https://dbpro.app/studio

100%

Needle in a haystack isn't a game. It's a way to stimulate your brain for 30 seconds at best. It's not a game.

I had to re-read it. I thought it was a joke.

These kinds of posts are my absolute favourite thing to read these days.

I'm tempted to create a website curating video game stories like this one.

Agreed. I actually didn't find it buggy when I bought it in 1998. I loved the box art.

I recently went through it from start to finish as an adult and found it an incredible slog to get through. The puzzles, to me, made zero sense, which sucks the fun out of the game because the only possible way to solve them is to just try everything with everything or to look up the solution.

The latest Monkey Island. Now THAT's how you make a point-and-click adventure game!

That is the difference between Gilbert's game design versus Schafer's. I much prefer Gilbert.

I have a love/hate relationship with Grim Fandango.

I love the world, the characters, the music, and the art style. It was so inspiring for me as a child.

I literally hate the puzzles and the gameplay.

Has it happened to you? I had two in one day!

Soon. We're releasing a major update at the end of August and then we'll add support for DuckDB.

I'm working on DB Pro [1]

A modern database client with dashboards, saved queries, workflows, and yes, AI built into it.

I've focused on building brilliant UX over the last year, and it has paid off. I've had two emails saying that they have cancelled their Jetbrains subscription for DataGrip which has been so validating.

It's been a labour of love and I'm super happy to have disrupted even a small part of the ginormous market that is database clients.

[1] https://dbpro.app

Emoji are clear indicators an LLM wrote this post. Ugh.

Unfortunately the Phaser framework has decided to go all-in on this route, and it's really disappointing.

These one-shot products aren't games. They're barely even demos. I don't even know what to call them. For a mature framework like Phaser to sell-out like this and create a vibecoded platform for vibecoded games is shocking.

I never had The Weather Channel growing up, but I get to listen to music inspired by it in this fantastic Vaporwave inspired playlist.

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1rCPATCm4x2l5c5TyzoM54?si=...

Those that did, how true is this music to the original channel's music?

I was inspired by this blog post to write "SQLite is all you need" [1]

I love HN's (healthy) obsession with SQLite. It's brilliant.

[1] https://www.dbpro.app/blog/sqlite-is-all-you-need

Just watch out for their license...

Have you thought about integrating Remotion into this?

Great news. I've found that no UI library comes close to shadcn's quality.

It even looks incredible when building desktop apps. We used it to build DB Pro [1] and the DB Pro website, and everyone compliments us on our design.

I see it becoming the defacto choice for UIs especially when building with agents.

[1] https://dbpro.app

This is just awful. Sorry. The page is so busy. Also, why an ai generated picture of a man on a laptop as the background?

I have so many thoughts but all I can think is this is the epitome of vibecoded slop.

Looking at this makes me think HN is peak design aesthetic.

If you thought that was bad, whatever you do, do NOT click the play button for the 5th step-by-step example: Expressions & Limbs.

I've never, EVER, in 18 years of being in this business, seen a software product demo of an emoji doing THAT before...

I suggest you change the demo.

1. Boys see girl 2. Boys fight over girl

Creator could have chosen literally anything else to represent their product but instead went with an animation of boy emojis fighting over a girl emoji.

Co-creator of Mira [1] here.

This is exactly what we built Mira for. It's self-hosted, bring-your-own-model/BYOK, and most importantly, open source.

You point it at your own API keys (e.g. OpenRouter or a local model) so nothing leaves your infra, and it runs as a code reviewer on PRs.

It's also ridiculously quick at reviewing (benchmarks at ~77s) because your PRs aren't sitting in a queue on a cloud somewhere (alternatives are > 5 minutes)

We're working really closely with our users to build the best possible code reviewer. Feedback and contributions are highly encouraged.

[1] https://github.com/miracodeai/mira

Hey Leynos, we used Claude Sonnet 4.5 and benchmarks we used were the Martian code review bench: https://codereview.withmartian.com/?mode=offline

Building DB Pro [1]

A complete desktop app for browsing and editing your Postgres, MySQL, SQLite data, creating beautiful dashboards, and soon designing automated workflows for repeat tasks.

[1] https://dbpro.app

I've kept a devlog of the last 10 months of building DB Pro, which has been the best way to bring users to the product. I'd highly recommend folks starting a devlog if they can.

That's fine. That's not what I dislike.

What I dislike is "AI SLOP" seems to be the default response to anything remotely creative anymore.