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Open Source Database Designs
✓ verifiedFreemium
Online database-design tool with sample schemas and an AI generator to explore, modify or build database structures visually.
27K visits/mo
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Eraser AI
✓ verifiedFreemium
AI co-pilot for technical diagrams and design docs, with diagram-as-code and integrations for engineering teams.
873K visits/mo41K saves
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Magic Patterns
✓ verifiedFreemium
AI prototyping tool that generates UI matching your design system, letting product teams test features fast.
242K visits/mo3.8K saves
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ShipFast
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One-time-purchase Next.js boilerplate with auth, payments, and email pre-wired so indie developers can launch a SaaS in days.
86K visits/mo
Pricing
No public pricing
Free: $0 (3 files, 3 AI diagrams)
Starter: $15/user/mo billed annually (40 AI diagrams)
Business: $45/user/mo billed annually (250 AI diagrams, SSO)
No public pricing
No public pricing
Starter: $199 one-time (regular $299)
All-in: $249 one-time (regular $349)
ShipFast + CodeFast bundle: $299 one-time (regular $648)
Core features
- ✦Library of sample database designs
- ✦Visual database designer / diagram tool
- ✦AI database generator
- ✦Modify and optimize existing schemas
- ✦SQL script export
- ✦Dialect converters (MySQL/PostgreSQL/MSSQL)
- ✦AI-generated diagrams from prompts
- ✦Diagram-as-code editing
- ✦Markdown design docs
- ✦Eraserbot auto-updating codebase diagrams
- ✦Integrations: GitHub, Notion, Confluence, VS Code
- ✦Export to PNG/SVG/PDF/MD and MCP server
- ✦Natural language to SQL conversion
- ✦AI UI generation from prompts
- ✦Match existing styling and design systems
- ✦Rapid, high-fidelity prototyping
- ✦Live team editing and sharing
- ✦Enterprise security and compliance
- ✦pre-configured Stripe/Lemon Squeezy payment integration
- ✦transactional email setup with DKIM/DMARC/SPF DNS records
- ✦Google OAuth and magic-link authentication
- ✦MongoDB or Supabase database integration
- ✦SEO and blog scaffolding out of the box
- ✦Discord community and public startup revenue leaderboard
Use cases
- →Finding a starting schema for a project
- →Designing a database visually
- →Generating a schema with AI
- →Converting between SQL dialects
- →Create architecture and cloud diagrams fast
- →Write and maintain design docs
- →Keep codebase diagrams up to date
- →Embed live diagrams in Notion/Confluence
- →Generating SQL queries from text descriptions.
- →Prototype new product features
- →Test designs with customers
- →Build design-system-consistent mockups
- →launching a SaaS or AI product without rebuilding common infrastructure
- →skipping repetitive auth, payment, and email setup work
- →building unlimited personal or client projects from one license
- →learning full-stack SaaS development via the bundled CodeFast course
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