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I’m Justin, founder and CEO of Arctype, and we’re very excited to share Arctype with the community. Arctype is a cross-platform GUI (soon to be open-sourced) to manage and query your databases, with built-in collaboration and visualization. It currently supports Postgres, MySQL, and SQLite, as well as newer-generation databases like ClickHouse, PlanetScale, and Yugabyte (and more coming very soon!).\n\nThink of Arctype as “phpMyAdmin meets Postman”. 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What started as a nice to have tool has now turned into a must have for our team in terms of sharing queries, and…",{"value":104,"source":85,"evidence":105},"Offline usage supported",[106],{"id":88,"by":89,"text":90},[108,123,133,137],{"value":109,"source":85,"evidence":110},"Slow, unresponsive, and resource-heavy in use (Electron performance)",[111,115,119],{"id":112,"by":113,"text":114},"31509230","micahjm","I tried Arctype a couple month ago and really liked the UX. Unfortunately, as I used it week after week I kept running into cases where it was really slow or completely…",{"id":116,"by":117,"text":118},"31513277","willhoyle","I found this app a few months ago from another HN comment. Unfortunately it was slow and unresponsive. I started looking for other options and found TablePlus which I’m loving so…",{"id":120,"by":121,"text":122},"31510992","ushakov","> Apps like VSCode and Discord have shown that it’s possible to achieve decent performance the difference is that they have the resources and employ people who work full-time to…",{"value":124,"source":85,"evidence":125},"Sends telemetry and contacts several domains on startup",[126,130],{"id":127,"by":128,"text":129},"31509774","ysleepy","I just downloaded it to try it out but it connects to like 4 domains on startup and after blocking internet access I cannot continue by clicking \"Continue without account\". 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