psequel
Appeal to Open Source
As a heavy user of the app (throughout every day) I'd like to make an appeal to reconsider making this an open source project. I believe this project has a lot of potential and I think that if it is opened up to the community it would speed development, growth, and maturity.
As a user of Sequel Pro, a user of Postgres, and a Swift developer, I'd love to help with this project as I believe this could be the defacto go-to program for Postgres on the Mac.
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You could consider monetizing the prepackaged / ready-to-download version but keep the source open and allow developers to build it themselves. I've noticed a few Mac Apps that have taken that approach.
Just wanted to support the idea and wish you all the best for finally making decent looking and working (even with bugs) tool. Will repeat my question here: is there like a good reason for not making it Open Source? I totally respect this decision, and accept it whatever the reason is, just curious.
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@psequel I already tried to contact you by e-mail, but got no response at all.
Please let community developers help to make this awesome tool better, rather than letting the the number of bugs increase without any fixes...
It does not need to be fully open-source: just start with letting a few other developers work on this project, or go for the solution @mihow suggested.
As a heavy user of this app and Sequel Pro. I saw Sequel Pro tried to add PostgreSQL but already 10 years ago. I read the Sequel Pro code and know that they need to make a lot of refactoring to make PostgreSQL possible.
A small project like Sequel Pro and PSequel should have a donation button to support developer but seems it's not enough (based on standard salary and I calculated all the donation of Sequel Pro).
So a few months ago I decided to start my dev tool named TablePlus (https://tableplus.io). Basically, it's free and no limit trial time for a basic user, and an upgrade plan for the paid user who wants to support me (permanent license - one time purchased).
I know it's not right to post the tool here because this place belongs to PSEquel, but I think it would be better if there are somebody takes the responsibility seriously for the project like this. Somebody can spend all the time to add new features and fix bugs (TablePlus shipped more than 300 changes in 5 months based on users feedback).
(if everybody disagrees I will remove my comment)
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If anyone is looking for an open-source alternative, https://github.com/Paxa/postbird is quite good. It is an electron app with a clean code base and is being actively maintained.
@boblauer An issue with electron/JS apps still is the performance and integration. Compared to a native app (which is why we like psequel), others often have weird integrations, bad performance or are really bulky. (i.e. the ones based on Java, or WxWidget, even most Qt apps) While electron apps aren't bad by definition, they are not as good as native apps for intense use. (at least not for me)