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Thank you! I hope it will capture your interest with new features in the future.

In my opinion that's not good advice. Over the past 11 years this domain already built up some domain reputation and incoming links. Changing the domain for no good reason won't help with people understanding the use case of the site.

The domain doesn't really matter so much as you can see with "replit.com", "chatgpt.com" or "stripe.com" which don't explain anything either.

If you want to invest time I'd suggest:

- Clean up design (Remove multiple disclaimers, side bar etc.)

- Add h1/h2 that instantly explains what this is about

- Have a list of simple examples that can be executed, not just "select * from demo"

- If you want to increase traffic, take a look at "site:sqliteonline.com" on Google. There's currently only 14 pages indexed, so lots of low hanging fruits to optimize. Could also be extended by having pages dedicated to examples or a topic that people can land on if they search for things like "left join sqlite" etc.

- Change site title from "SQL Online AiDE - Next gen SQL Editor | SQL Compiler" to something explaining what this is about.

Thank you, unfortunately, almost zero.

Current Firefox on Linux. This is the console message:

downloadable font: Glyph bbox was incorrect (glyph ids 33 55 62 81 82 83 84 87 88 89 90 112 119 120 123 139 159 162 164 166 178 184 185 217 218 272 273 274 275 279 281 284 290 291 292 309 310 319 321 323 326 329 330 331 332 333 334 339 341 347 349 351 352 353 354 357 358 361 366 367 370 371 414 431 436 444 445 458 460 464 465 483 505 508 511 514 516 517 518 520 521 538 539 546 568 574 579 580 585 586 594 596 599 602 603 616 618 622 627 629 630 633 634 638 643 645 651 654 665 675 685 686 688 691) (font-family: "FontAwesome" style:normal weight:400 stretch:100 src index:1) source: https://sqliteonline.com/fonts/fontawesome-webfont.woff2?v=4...

using deprecated parameters for the initialization function; pass a single object instead sog3.js:2251:21

Uncaught (in promise) ReferenceError: RTCPeerConnection is not defined <anonymous> https://sqliteonline.com/f/agw31.0.26.min.js:49 async* https://sqliteonline.com/f/agw31.0.26.min.js:87 async* https://sqliteonline.com/f/agw31.0.26.min.js:89

For me: Try queries without the hassle of setting up a database. Learn SQL. Experiment. Etc.

It's clear that the tool is highly useful to the people who use it.

That being said, I feel like I'm dumped into the playground without understanding what I am playing with. A few short paragraphs, examples, screenshots, explanations, ect, would go very far.

> You can <core value proposition>

It may be difficult to briefly describe all the website’s capabilities right now, but the key features include:

  * Federated queries across external and internal data sources.

  * Using query history as a source for new requests.

  * Collaborative access to databases — both server and local, with structure synchronization.

  * Automatic chart generation based on queries.

  * And much more, including hidden features that are not yet easy to summarize.

Agree with your edit saying that there should be a landing message that gives a quick overview. But with in a few moments I was able to see that you can create a database and then start inserting tables/records into it. Seems like a pretty good tool to learn how to create and manage a database without the hassle of having to download sqlite and start testing commands that might be new to you in the CLI

As an educator I would've loved to have this last time I was teaching SQL.

1: No install

2: Ephermal (just reload if you've messed up?)

3: Good syntax highlighting

4: Visual UI to navigate the model

Why to pay for it though? That's a harder nut to crack, the UI is quite nice compared to many I've seen so maybe sell as an addon for those that provider hosted databases, collaborative spaces or as a desktop app. No obvious slam dunks though.

I would have loved this 25-years ago during university.

Would have made homework (and just learning) significantly easier.

Yup, I think it would be a big help if the home page ('/') was a landing page explaining who it's for and why, and why. Is this for students? For prototyping? For quick analysis? Sample data? Importing real data? Use cases are key.

And then have a big hero button leading to the the actual tool ('/app' or '/playground' or whatever). Maybe preloaded with different sample data depending on the use case.

Right now, being dumped into a complicated interface with zero explanation is very confusing. (None of this is to criticize the project itself, just to help identify it to the people who might find the most value in it!)

At first I thought that was about SQLite development itself

I assume this is because sqliteonline is using the sqlite library, not running the literal sqlite command line application. Per item 7 in the faq (https://sqlite.org/faq.html), the way to get that info would be to run something like the following:

SELECT * FROM sqlite_schema WHERE type='table' ORDER BY name;

The website does seem to correctly return the names/schemas of whatever tables you've created if you run the command above, but the editor (incorrectly) adds red squigglies around the command, since I guess it doesn't realize this is allowed.

P2P “Share/Collaborate” mode: the UI text and toasts (“Share”, “Close connect”, “connected”, “No connected.”) plus e.rtc.user strongly suggest a feature where someone “hosts” a DB and others connect directly to run queries/see results live.

Thank you. Our entire life is but a moment: something disappears, and something new emerges.

I have heard something like “lottery factor” as a more pleasant term. Though personally bus doesn’t bother me.

11k daily users is very good even without this so-called "product mindset"!

Thank you! I will strive to improve the interface and make it more intuitive.

It’s possible you’re not the target audience?

No, please. Don't inflate the team to something that would need investors. It's cool that an alter-Web can exist without 10 person teams.

And what currency is it in? Seems so odd to not put it in dollars or euros.

And FURTHERMORE, the $ sign is incorrectly to the right of the numbers. It should be $10. Personally, this shows such a lack of product thinking, and simply hacking away at a tool instead of delivering a service.

Could you please advise where the issue might be?

Or use the latest llms for translation

I aim to make the product convenient and as straightforward as possible. It's better to extend its use when needed than to worry about when to stop.

Sure it is. A subscription's defining trait is continuity of access contingent on periodic renewal, whether manual or automatic. People subscribed to things way before online payments or even credit cards were common. A modern, if niche, example is Tarsnap.com. Once in a while, I get an email from Colin telling me to pay up if I don't want my backups deleted.

Use Shift + Enter to run the script.

Some things in life are just not that serious. People can have passion projects they plan on going nowhere.

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