Widen, a native Postgres GUI using Apple's on-device LLM
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HN · launched Aug 16, 2026 · 9 upvotes (top 47%) · 0 views
Niche: database clients and gui tools · 112 launches, 9 in the last 7 days ▲ +13% · Explore this niche →
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- Commercial product
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Could you build this?
Yes Building a native macOS GUI for PostgreSQL (using SwiftUI and libpq) that interfaces with Apple's local LLM APIs via Foundation/MLX is well within the scope of AI-assisted development.
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Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 1978 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #966 of 1979 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 290 days after the earliest competitor.
- SereneUI · hn · 2026-05-07 · 16 upvotes · similarity 0.67
- streamgres · github · 2026-10-07 · 97 upvotes · similarity 0.63
- harbor-db · github · 2026-09-14 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.63
- Egres: A Postgres-compatible database for heavy, multi-tenant workloads · hn · 2026-10-27 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- Egres, A Postgres-compatible database for heavy, multi-tenant workloads · hn · 2026-11-01 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- justPostgres · github · 2026-09-09 · 46 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- Pglite-oxide · hn · 2026-04-27 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- PgEdge Control Plane, a declarative API for multi-region Postgres mgmt · hn · 2025-11-19 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.58
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