Cloudflare Acquires Outerbase

by soheilpro on 4/8/2025, 11:03:23 AM with 12 comments

  • by rafram on 4/8/2025, 1:11:31 PM

    They really need to focus on making D1 remotely usable for real work [1] before moving to the bells-and-whistles phase.

    [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43572511

  • by spo81rty on 4/8/2025, 1:51:38 PM

    I like Cloudflare. I also feel they are doing too many things...

  • by crowcroft on 4/8/2025, 2:02:50 PM

    Most people are used to connecting to remote DBs over a port/SSH with DBeaver or Table Plus etc.

    Connecting to Sqlite is different to MySQL and Postgres though and can feel a bit weird. If they want D1 to become a big platform something like makes a lot of sense.

  • by wiradikusuma on 4/8/2025, 2:00:48 PM

    I built my app (Show HN at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43483919 ) using Cloudflare for various functions. They seem to nail the services a typical SaaS needs (except email service), but localhost development can be challenging for some newer services.

    Also, their Queues service seems to get stuck randomly, and I need to "flush" it manually from the dashboard.

    But I hope they get better over time. Can't beat the ease of use and the pricing.

  • by solarkraft on 4/8/2025, 5:58:05 PM

    Congratulations! I hope Outerbase Studio will live on, it’s one of the nicest Database management UIs I know.

  • by burcs on 4/8/2025, 4:57:52 PM

    Happy to answer any questions, super excited to be part of the team and help make Cloudflare's developer experience better. Not just bells-and-whistles ;)

  • by knowsuchagency on 4/8/2025, 10:53:28 PM

    Why was this flagged?

  • by phildougherty on 4/8/2025, 1:56:09 PM

    congrats to the outerbase team! they are great people.