I built a Postgres GUI in Swift because existing tools felt bloated
Details
- External ID
- 46562251
- Source
- HN
- Company
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- Product
- I built a Postgres GUI in Swift because existing tools felt bloated
- Website domain
- postgresgui.com
- Launched
- Jan. 10, 2026
- Cohort
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- Upvotes
- 9
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.461133069828722
- Tags
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- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- developer utilities and gaming mods
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- lightweight postgres database gui
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial A clean native macOS UI in SwiftUI is easily vibe-coded, but building a robust, responsive PostgreSQL client with SSH tunneling, connection pooling, and binary protocol parsing has hard low-level edges.
What it would actually take: Built with Swift and SwiftUI for the native macOS UI, integrating with libpq or a pure Swift Postgres driver (like PostgresNIO). The hard parts involve asynchronous query cancellation, managing streaming memory for multi-gigabyte query results without crashing the UI, handling complex Postgres data types (JSONB, geometric, array types), and integrating SSH tunneling (libssh2). Requires a solid understanding of database network protocols and Swift concurrency.
Discussion
2 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Razor SQL
Feature requests: Automatic query history/scrolling through executed queries, Easy rollback to find and re-run previous queries with different parameters
Competitors
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Launched 21 days after the earliest competitor.
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