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by mritchie712 1972 days ago
I like it. Do you support WebSQL?

One category of apps I think would be interesting is caching SaaS data locally to make for fast search. e.g. Intercom is painfully slow, I want an extension that caches recent Intercom data for fast search and messaging.
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mritchie712 1972 days ago
We made this extension recently. It lets you query data in any `<table>` in any open Chrome tab. Pretty nuts what you can build with extensions vs. a standard web app. Good luck!

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/sqanything/naejbcf...

https://doc.seekwell.io/sqanything

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kkevv 1971 days ago
Woah that's amazing! I thought the name SeekWell was familiar, I think we used your SQL -> GSheets integration before!
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mritchie712 1971 days ago
Cool, curious, what company were you at?

Good luck with the new thing!

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Glench 1971 days ago
awesome! Have you considered taking payments? I recently made a browser extension payment system that you don't even need to run your own server to use: https://extensionpay.com/
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kkevv 1970 days ago
This is cool, extremely relevant now that Google removed payments for extensions!

We are free during the developer preview/beta and plan to have a really generous hobby tier. We are rolling our own Stripe integration down the road for enterprise users!

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kkevv 1971 days ago
Ohh, We haven't tried WebSQL yet with our builder, but from a quick Google search it seems possible!

Another route is to use something like http://alasql.org/ to cache data in localstorage so you can query it instantly. Would a search UX be better, or a text box to directly write SQL over your data?

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mritchie712 1971 days ago
Yeah, we use alasql in the app I linked to below. It's amazing! Also supports querying CSV's, Excel, Sheets, etc. Pretty amazing package.
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