[gerad]

Have you thought about solving the problem from a different direction? Providing a read-only, sanitized clone of the database that can be accessed outside of the core application code?

Seems like that could kill more birds with the same stone?

[hexedpackets]

We have thought about that! It's a nice approach for some use cases but having just a read-only copy ends up being pretty limiting. Often people using internal tools (particularly customer success) needs to modify some fields in a record but shouldn't have unrestricted access to everything. We've found that being able to protect specific fields instead of the entire database gives a lot more flexibility.

[acrefoot]

Tonic.ai seemed to fit that bill, but we ended up rolling our own ETL job due to cost concerns, and some security preferences for a simple to audit tool to do this. tonic.ai does it on-the-fly, which was merely a nice-to-have for this use case.

[pistoriusp]

That's exactly what we're doing at https://www.snaplet.dev, I would love to chat with the founders about offering generated production accurate snapshots for developers to code against for users of their proxy!

[debussyman]

Happy to chat anytime! You can reach me by email (ryan at [ourdomain]) or book directly on my cal - https://calendly.com/ryan-jump/yc-founder-meeting

We've peeked at Snaplet in the past, and :heart: your design aesthetic

[pistoriusp]

Thanks! I'm just about to catch a flight, but will reach out when I get back to the land of the living!

[debussyman]

Sounds good, travel safe

[nogenhat]

Are you looking for investment? Happy to close the deal, love that idea so much and trust the co-founders redwoodjs ;-)

[pistoriusp]

Unfortunately not anymore, we have a great set of people backing us, but thanks for the vote of confidence.

As an aside: Not exactly sure why the parent is getting down voted.

[dang]

It's common for startups to hijack competitors' launch threads. Some readers find that distasteful; perhaps that's why there were downvotes.

I'm not saying that your post was such a hijack, but it's difficult to interpret these things accurately, so any post of this kind will always land on a spectrum of responses.

[pistoriusp]

Indeed, but IMHO they're very different products if you understand the positioning, which I guess is hard to guage.

[hodgesrm]

Yeah, that's wierd. I just upvoted you to compensate.