ErwinDB, a TUI to view 7k Stack Overflow answers by Postgres expert
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Erwin Brandstetter is a PostgreSQL consultant with ~670k reputation and ~7k answers on Stack Overflow.Over the years, I've lost count of how often I've searched Stack Overflow for a Postgres question and ended up with an answer by Erwin Brandstetter that was exceptionally thorough and clear. I've become a better developer by learning from his responses.ErwinDB lets you browse Erwin Brandstetter's answers offline and search them quickly from a TUI. It includes semantic search, syntax highlighting, one-key opening of links in your external browser, and an "Erwin mode" that prominently highlights his posts.
HN · launched Feb 3, 2026 · 5 upvotes (top 89%) · 0 views
Niche: vertical search engines and directories · 98 launches, 7 in the last 7 days ▼ -46% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Dev tools
- Developer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
Yes It is a straightforward terminal reader app wrapping a static SQLite database or scraped dataset of public Stack Overflow posts.
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Competitors
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Launched 82 days after the earliest competitor.
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