Developers struggle to inspect and diagram existing database schemas
As databases grow, developers spend time copying schema details by hand and struggle to turn existing databases into useful diagrams. Some diagram workflows require manual input or omit features such as views, while users specifically ask for SQL import and live database connections. The result is tedious schema inspection and documentation, especially when there are many tables and relationships.
For database developers and application developers. Mentioned from Nov 2017 to Apr 2025 on GitHub, Hacker News and Stack Exchange.
12 different people described this problem in 11 separate discussions.
- Indie fit
- 5.0/10
- Pain
- 5.2/10
- Frequency
- 9.3/10
- Willingness to pay
- 2.9/10
- Momentum
- 5.0/10
- Who pays
- Professionals
- Competition
- High
- Build difficulty
- Medium
What people said
Quoted word for word. Follow a link to read the whole discussion.
There are about 40 tables and 2k columns currently, and I am managing all of these manually, with a lot of hand writing and copying & pasting. Which is slow and very error prone in my opinion, and I guess there will be more tables in the future
As soon as you add postgres SQL import this will be my daily driver! (I've been looking for a tool like this many times)
Build brief
See what to build and who will buy it
- 2 product ideas with the smallest useful version and pricing
- 4 places to find your first customers
- 10 more quotes from people who have this problem
- Current workarounds, existing solutions and risks