ChartDB Cloud
Data
database diagramming
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How HN took it
QuietFewer than 5 comments about the project
1 positive, 2 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 0 critical, out of 4 comments about the project.
Execution: 1 for, 0 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Looks good and easy to use for importing schemas
From 2 comments
Pretty. The question I have is this, and don’t attack me for asking, but do people still produce database diagrams for use at work? I thought we had abstracted this by using…
reactordev on HNBeen using ChartDB recently and it’s been quite good for my use case. I’m on Supabase, and found that the Supabase built-in ERD viewer kind of breaks down once you go past like…
benocodes on HN
Objections
Doubts that teams still produce database diagrams given ORMs and DDD
From 2 comments
Pretty. The question I have is this, and don’t attack me for asking, but do people still produce database diagrams for use at work? I thought we had abstracted this by using…
reactordev on HNonly for learning for industry???? let me create an ERD for my 10th SaaS tools that need generic auth and payment, nope
tonyhart7 on HN
Requests
Diff between dev diagram and live database
From 1 comment
Been using ChartDB recently and it’s been quite good for my use case. I’m on Supabase, and found that the Supabase built-in ERD viewer kind of breaks down once you go past like…
benocodes on HN
Support for .dot files
From 1 comment
Any thoughts of supporting .dot files?
gcanyon on HN
Questions
How the AGPL license applies to pre-CLA contributions and whether the cloud product is open source
From 1 comment
I'd love to hear more about your experience with AGPL licensing and building a cloud/SaaS product later. It looks like you introduced a CLA four months ago, but have a lot of…
evanelias on HN
Alternatives named
Lucidchart
From 2 comments
We do at my team. I do not work on the Backend side, but I help in designing the DB schema. Whenever I am thinking of new features to be developed, or when engineers are…
andersonklando on HNIf I recall, Lucidchart allows up to 15 "shapes. > Also, Lucidchart is just draw.io fyi - you don't need a license unless you need the file sharing aspect, and I feel like it…
andersonklando on HN
dbdiagram.io
From 1 comment
We do at my team. I do not work on the Backend side, but I help in designing the DB schema. Whenever I am thinking of new features to be developed, or when engineers are…
andersonklando on HN
Supabase built-in ERD viewer
From 1 comment
Been using ChartDB recently and it’s been quite good for my use case. I’m on Supabase, and found that the Supabase built-in ERD viewer kind of breaks down once you go past like…
benocodes on HN