Direct SQL Access to Your QuickBooks Data
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Hey guys, I dunno about you but if you have a business and use QuickBooks, the normal API access is pretty cumbersome.So we built a direct SQL layer to a simple model of the ledger. It's nice to have easy fast programmatic access to your books for building internal apps and stuff, not to mention giving agents access. (Agents are really good at SQL, read-only of course.)Along the way, this made us wonder: when does an app or service really need a custom API at all, rather than just exposing data as SQL, which is sorta the lingua franca of data querying. Will more services do this in the future?Curious what you think!
HN · launched Sep 14, 2026 · 5 upvotes (top 87%) · 0 views
Niche: database clients and gui tools · 112 launches, 9 in the last 7 days ▲ +13% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Fintech
- Data infrastructure
- B2B
- Not AI
- Commercial product
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Could you build this?
Partial A basic dashboard connecting to QuickBooks API is simple, but building a read-only PostgreSQL wire protocol server that translates SQL queries into QuickBooks API queries in real time is nontrivial.
What it would actually take: Requires an implementation of the Postgres frontend/backend wire protocol (e.g. via pgproto or custom server in Go/Rust), an SQL parser (like sqlparser-rs or pg_query) that translates ASTs into QuickBooks Online queries or an embedded sync database (e.g. SQLite/DuckDB synced via webhooks), and OAuth handling.
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Competitors mentioned: CDATA, QOBDC, Kipper
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