#DataCollie Day by day Guided by Leo’s Interaction Design Philosophy, I decided to make a subtraction: - Remove the toolbar from table panel. - Remove New Table from the table right-click context menu. #BuildInPublic

#DataCollie Day by day 🧩 Removed the DDL preview toolbar. Actions moved to the context menu. Why: 1. A cleaner, calmer UI 2. Non-frequent actions should stay out of sight 3. One action, one clear entry point When the work starts to feel like subtraction,I know I’m getting close. #BuildInPublic

#DataCollie Day by day 🚀 Got the Trigger UI done in the table designer today, with trigger metadata now loading properly. #BuildInPublic

While everyone is busy building thin GPT wrappers, I’m engineering the professional workstation for the next decade of AI data.

I’m feeling a real sense of urgency for #DataCollie. The future is clearly in Vector DBs, visualizing similarity and vector search is the must-have for AI infrastructure. Yet, here I am, stuck on MySQL. It’s a race against time, but I know where I need to be. Get it done.

#DataCollie daily progress Tonight, I added support for loading trgger metadata into table structure designer and showing it in a table pane. #buildinpublic

#DataCollie daily progress Just added support for loading table foreign key metadata directly into the designer form. #buildinpublic

#DataCollie Day by day Yesterday, i added a new tab view that lets you browse foreign key constraints at the schema level. Hopefully, it makes the db structure esaier to understand and reduces mental overhead. #buildinpublic

#DataCollie Day by day This week was hectic, but I still wrote a bit of code every night. no broken context. Finally finished the foreign key design form in the table schema designer tonight. #buildinpublic

#DataCollie One Step a Day It’s Saturday. I woke up earlier than on a workday and felt that “being woken up by a dream” again. In just one morning, I implemented: 1. Editable Column Name field in the table. 2. An Add button that inserts a new Index Column.

#DataCollie Daily Progress Worked overtime until 8 p.m., got home at 9, and spent 2 hours finishing the feature that loads index metadata into the Index Designer form. Time is like… well, if you squeeze it a bit, you can always find some. #buildinpublic

#DataCollie daily progress Progress has been slow these past few days. However, I’ve rebuilt the UI and interactions for the Index Designer. #buildinpublic #indiedev

#DataCollie Daily Progress Today I refactored the field designer form in the MySQL table schema editor. Switched to a different layout container and finally fixed the occasional dropdown misalignment issue on HDI screens and dual-monitors. #buildinpublic #indiedev

Got home late tonight, didn’t code, just reviewed what I’ve built so far. Looking back, I’ve done something meaningful past year. the best thing about being a developer? You can lose yourself in your own product, no midlife crisis, no emptiness, no loneliness. #DataCollie

For vector databases, GUI client tools are not just productivity aids. It don't just need visualization; the depth and approach of their visualization directly determine how efficiently users can leverage this powerful AI-native infrastructure.

Vector DB clients differ from traditional RDB ones — they run similarity searches and interpret scores, not exact matches. It’s about semantic exploration, not logic filters. The next wave of DB tools starts with native vector support. #DataCollie #buildinpublic

#DataCollie daily progress This weekend, I combined the table data query and table designer into a single tab.More importantly, I set a new rule for the interaction logic: every feature should have only one entry point (except the right-click menu). #buildinpublic #indiedev

Day 512 of building #DataCollie I’ve been struggling with whether to put Query Table Data and Table Structure Design in the same tab or not. Split, merge, split again — at least three times. Starting to feel like I have zero product sense. 😅 #buildinpublic

Day 508 of building #DataCollie Tonight, I implemented the Indexes, Foreign Keys, and Triggers subnodes under the Table node in the data object navigation tree, and fetched their metadata. #buildinpublic #indiedev

#DataCollie A Little Bit Every Day When I'm eating, I don't even watch videos anymore, but instead thinking about how to optimize it, I know: I'm about to start a new round of speeding up! #buildinpublic #indiedev

Day 498 of building #DataCollie making sure everything looks more consistent and setting the stage for future theme switching. #buildinpublic #indiedev

#DataCollie daily grind Wasn’t really feeling it tonight, so I just did some low-effort stuff — tidied up the right-click menu for the table nodes in the data tree.#buildinpublic

#DataCollie daily progress After a two-week break, development on DataCollie resumes today. #buildinpublic

#DataCollie daily progress Pretty sure I’m the worst product manager disguised as a programmer. Build a module → overbuild it → simplify it → scrap it → repeat. It’s basically the infinite loop of shame 😂 #buildinpublic

Keep it going!

#DataCollie daily progress Cleaned up the right-click menu on data objects tonight. When I first started last year, I crammed in way too many options. Now it’s all about trimming things down—feels like a new phase of development. Release day’s getting closer! #buildinpublic

#DataCollie daily progress Went with a “less is more” vibe and gave the main UI layout and interactions a refactor. #buildinpublic

@datacollie daily progress The AI Assistant journey is a long march — today it’s just a button : ) Next up, text-to-SQL will be on the roadmap. #buildinpublic

#DataCollie daily progress Tonight I added a feature: whenever I delete a table in the table view, its node in the left-hand data tree gets deleted too. #buildinpublic

Wrapped up the core features of the table designer. Also refined the table deletion confirmation flow tonight. Really happy with the progress. #buildinpublic

#DataCollie Daily Progress Tested the display on a 27-inch screen, looks pretty good. #buildinpublic

#DataCollie daily progress Wrapped up the top-right notification module tonight—just need to add auto-close next.Calling it a day, see you tomorrow! #buildinpublic #indiedev

#DataCollie daily progress Retweaked the style and tip message of the script error dialog today. That’s it for now, moving on to next feature. #buildinpublic #indiedev

#DataCollie daily progress Tonight’s 2-hour coding battle: 🐛 MySQL create-table script executor ⚔️ Error dialog implementation 🏆 Victory is mine Logging off. Tomorrow’s another round. #buildinpublic #indiedev

#DataCollie daily progress Spent the weekend building the feature to generate MySQL DDL from the table structure designer. #buildinpublic #indiedev

#DataCollie daily progress Nasty bug tonight: when TableView shows a vertical scrollbar inside a complex layout, it redraws and messes up the data view.After hours of digging, wrapping the table in a ScrollPane did the trick. Smooth and stable now. #buildinpublic #indiedev

#DataCollie daily progress Adapting to different database features is the toughest challenge for DataCollie. I've spent two weeks working on the table designer for MySQL, making steady progress, but there’s still a long way to go. #buildinpublic #indiedev

💻 Been chiseling away at this table column design window pixel by pixel… ended up working till 2 AM again. 😩 I’m so jealous of those devs who build a web app in 1 hour and launch an app in 3 days. Am I just out of touch? 😂😂😂 #DataCollie #indiedev #buildinpublic

🏡💻 #DataCollie Daily Progress Today I locked myself in and finally finished the UI for adding new columns in the MySQL Table Designer. Tomorrow, I’ll work on data binding between the UI and backend, and generating basic DDL scripts. #buildinpublic #IndieDevs

#DataCollie Daily Progress Tonight I started working on the UI for adding new columns in the MySQL table designer. #buildinpublic #indiedev

#DataCollie Daily Progress Today I woke up naturally at 10am and spent 2 hours coding. I added a banner to the Create MySQL Schema window to make it look less plain and boring. #buildinpublic #indiedev

#DataCollie Daily Progress Tonight I finished the feature to load the list of supported storage engines from a MySQL instance, enabling dropdown selection in the table designer page. #buildinpublic #indiedev

#DataCollie Daily Progress Today I finished the basic structure for the Table DDL Generator. It reminded me of an old saying in computer science:"Every problem can be solved by adding another layer of abstraction.If it doesn't work, add one more." #buildinpublic #IndieDevs

#DataCollie 日拱一卒 今天完成了对新建和修改表的UI和后台数据模型的统一。明天可以开始根据表结构的UI操作生成对应的DDL脚本，这个模块的开发似乎也快进入里程碑了。#buildinpublic #indiedev

#DataCollie has improved the module for displaying table structure DDL scripts through various adjustments and optimizations. #buildinpublic

The first MySQL release of DataCollie is almost ready. Looking forward, I’ve reprioritized the roadmap: Support for emerging databases such as Milvus, TDengine, and StarRocks will come before traditional databases — to fill the tooling gap in these fast-growing ecosystems. #buildinpublic #indiedev

#DataCollie Making Daily Progress Tonight, I defined the right-click context menu on the Table node of the #DataCollie data object navigation tree. #buildinpublic #indiedev

#DataCollie Fini les hésitations — chaque onglet de la console de script prendra en charge le changement de connexion. La zone centrale de la barre d’outils principale affichera clairement la connexion active, avec la possibilité de personnaliser la couleur de surbrillance. #buildinpublic #indiedev

#DataCollie DevLog Taking shape. Diving deeper. #buildinginpublic #indiedev

#DataCollie Tonight I added a new feature: when editing a connection, the app will now check if the connection is currently open. If it is, the connection will be closed first before opening the edit window. #buildinpublic #indiedev