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Cloudflare Acquires Outerbase

by soheilpro on 4/8/25, 11:03 AM with 12 comments

• by rafram on 4/8/25, 1:11 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 4/8/25, 1:51 PM

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

• by crowcroft on 4/8/25, 2:02 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 4/8/25, 2:00 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 4/8/25, 5:58 PM

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

• by burcs on 4/8/25, 4:57 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 4/8/25, 10:53 PM

  Why was this flagged?

• by phildougherty on 4/8/25, 1:56 PM

  congrats to the outerbase team! they are great people.