> We use dbeaver internally (and we hate it).

Why do you "hate" it? (such a strong word!) My only complaint is that I need to invalidate the connection every time I don't query anything for a few minutes, otherwise the next query hangs for like 50 seconds. But apart from that, I think it's great, especially for a free product. And the project is very active, it gets a new release about every 15 days.

Not the best editor for schema design I would say. MySQL workbench is great in that respect. Wish something of that sort existed for other dbs.

I have NOT come across connection invalidation problem though.

> I need to invalidate the connection every time I don't query anything for a few minutes, otherwise the next query hangs for like 50 seconds

Sounds like you messed up the connection settings, I have never had this problem using DBeaver for years across companies.

I'm CTO of a very early stage startup and $50/mo to allow my CEO to read and edit the database is an easy decision.

This is a half-joke of a comment, but I would pay $50/month to a product that could explicitly prohibit the CEO from editing the production database.

I saw this immediately after submitting my comment above and I was like why would you want to give such access to someone who is more than likely non-technical. I can't see any pros from this unless it's locked to read only mode but then at $50 you're just paying for an excel view into your app.

In a startup, are you sure you like to spend 600 bucks on a db edit tool - what stage is your startup ?

I disagree, speaking on production data, if your CEO is technical enough they should be able to do this (for whatever reason they have).

If not, you need some sort of admin interface (could be a couple forms) to address this properly so invalid data can't be plopped in OR any changes should be documented and sent to someone technical even if it's a typo fix. It seems fun and easy but production data isn't something you should wrap in an excel interface and give to any and everyone. $600 a year so your boss can update names and dates is kinda hard to justify as well.

The stack is Node.js with Express and React. We use Sequelize to handle database connections.

As others mentioned, our current pricing is in line with higher tiers of other internal tools, mostly geared towards startups with revenue or funding. We're hoping to add cheaper (and free!) plans moving forward once we validate that we can make money from SMBs.

Early customers are using the product for customer support, order management, basic analytics dashboards, data entry. Good mix of technical and non-technical users within teams.

Wow how can you hate DBeaver. Do you even write SQL?