New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: Plato – Airtable for your SQL database

Show HN: Plato – Airtable for your SQL database
39 by mgummelt | 13 comments on Hacker News.
Hi! I've been a member of HN for fifteen years so today I'm very excited to share Plato. Plato is an Airtable-like interface for your Postgres or MySQL database. It's an admin panel for devs and non-devs alike to manage your DB. We see teams use Plato for customer support, customer success, ops, etc.. We built Plato because we think more people should be able to build and extend internal tools. We thought it was strange that even though low-code is supposed to democratize development, all of the low-code internal tool builders are marketed to engineers! Airtable is a familiar UI that fits the relational model well, so we've been inspired by their work. Even the engineers on our team use Plato quite a bit, since it's often easier than spinning up a SQL prompt. Some features: - Postgres and MySQL support - Visual query controls (sorts, filters, hiding columns). No SQL. - Joins by "expanding" foreign keys - Virtual columns for tracking new data - Auto-generated backlinks for one-to-many relationships - Read-only locking for individual tables - Virtual tables for sharing new views with your team Plato today works on databases with a public IP (just whitelist our IP to connect), but we're soon rolling out an on-prem version. We can also set up an SSH tunnel for you if you contact us at team@plato.io. We'd love to hear your feedback! Thanks. - Michael

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