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Rustable is an open source database client built in Rust

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HN · launched Nov 3, 2026 · 27 upvotes (top 26%) · 0 views

Category and tags
  • Horizontal
  • Dev tools
  • Developer
  • Not AI
  • Hobby / open-source project

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Could you build this?

Partial The UI and query workflow are buildable, but a real multi-engine database client needs native wire-protocol drivers, SSH tunneling, safe edit handling and performance work that vibe coding alone won't reliably deliver.

What it would actually take: A real version is a Rust desktop app using an immediate-mode GUI such as egui, with WASM builds for the browser demo. The hard parts are correct drivers for PostgreSQL, MySQL/MariaDB, SQLite and Redis (for example sqlx or native protocol crates), SSH tunnel handling, and virtualized rendering of large result sets. It also needs systems-level Rust experience and platform code signing and notarization for macOS and Windows distribution.

Discussion

20 comments analyzed.

Competitors mentioned: TablePlus, Electron, libui-ng, egui

Concerns raised: not truly native since it uses egui, vibe-coded project, Rust rewrite exists for its own sake, weak justification for existence

Feature requests: use platform-native UI controls, test on Linux and Windows

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 851 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #225 of 852 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 367 days after the earliest competitor.

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