Simpl.
A pleasant Postgres browser for working with real data
361 followers
A pleasant Postgres browser for working with real data
361 followers
Every Postgres project eventually needs a way to browse production data. You either suffer through ugly, expensive, and overly complex enterprise-grade tools, or build yet another custom admin panel that you need to maintain. Simpl is different. Paste your connection string and instantly get a beautiful, browsable interface. Filter intelligently, follow foreign keys naturally, customize what you see, and share with your team. Built by a solo dev, for solo devs and small teams.
DocsCube
Can this be used locally during development?
Congrats on the lunch!
Liinks
@teon_stamenovic1 currently this is only set up to work with remote databases, but you could use a tool like ngrok to make a local DB accessible remotely. I am starting to look into porting the tool into a desktop app to enable local access though.
@teon_stamenovic1 @charlie_clark If you can reach remote DB why can't you reach local DB ... In the end is just a different ip and port ...
Liinks
@teon_stamenovic1 @valerian_chifu When you connect a database in Simpl, the connection is made from our servers in the cloud, not from your browser. Your local database isn't reachable from the internet since it's behind your router/firewall. To connect a local database, you'd need to expose it via a tunnel (like ngrok) or use a cloud-hosted database instead.
@teon_stamenovic1 @charlie_clark You are right of course ... I thought the server also runs on localhost.
In this case you need some kind of local agent but exposing the port through a ngrok like tool is probably easier.
In this architecture though if you access the client DB from cloud ... this raises a big security problem. The user must have a lot of trust in this app to allow his production DB to be accessed by a 3rd party tool from a cloud he has no control over.
DocsCube
Love the product, is there any way to connect to my self hosted postgres via SSH? I don't see it when trying to connect my database.
Liinks
@ankit_malik6 Hi ankit, at the moment we only support the connection string connections. I'll look into the feasibility of connecting over SSH
Community Figma MCP server
So, we don't need back-office applications anymore?
Liinks
@anton_tishchenko hehe, for 90% of small projects, I'd say not anymore!
this looks really pleasant to use, which is rare for database tools 😄 any plans for team collaboration or shared views?
Product Hunt
Congrats on the launch, Charlie! Tbh, databases scare me and a lot of tools are SO overwhelming, so I really appreciate your approach of keeping things simple. Curious to try this for my next project!
PS. do I spy @Thiings icons 👀
Liinks
@gabe thanks Gabe! You've nailed the reason why I built Simpl. Let me know if you try it out!
PS. You do indeed 🤭 Perfect for demo data!
Browsing real production data is where assumptions usually break and edge cases surface.
We’ve felt how valuable that visibility becomes once agents and automation start depending on live data while building GTWY.
Liinks
@human_gtwy agreed!
Congrats on the launch — love how Simpl removes the friction of building yet another custom Postgres admin UI and gives solo devs a fast, production‑ready way to explore real data
Liinks
@zeiki_yu Cheers!