AI is turning schema design from a scribble into a deployable toolbelt. The buzz isn’t just chat anymore—you’re seeing real-world pipelines that generate schemas, parse exports, and power self-hosted search from natural language.
• db-thing — a schema designer that orchestrates with Tambo AI and uses Gemini 2.5 to generate the actual schema when you request one. It’s all built on Next.js, Tailwind CSS, and TypeScript, showing how AI orchestration layers meet data modeling [1].
• ChatExport Structurer — turns ChatGPT/Claude exports into queryable SQL, parsing 70k+ messages and delivering a simple open-source CLI for analysis. It’s a clean bridge from messy chat history to a structured database [2].
• Rust-based personal document server concept — designed for multilingual, OCR-enabled indexing and search. It envisions axum, tokio-cron-scheduler, SQLx, Lapin, and RabbitMQ handling jobs, with PostgreSQL, tsvector, and Tantivy powering search. Language detection (Lingua) and translation (Argos Translate), plus document extraction (Apache Tika, Tesseract), tie it all together [3].
• Flamehaven FileSearch — a self-hosted RAG semantic search stack that’s production-ready. It players Python, FastAPI, and SQLite storage, with Gemini embeddings and a REST API, proving you can deploy solid semantic search without bulky vector DBs [4].
Closing thought: 2025’s AI tooling is lowering the barrier from idea to deployed data tooling—from schema generation to queryable exports and self-hosted search.
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Building a database design tool with Tambo and Gemini 2.5
AI driven database design tool using Tambo AI and Gemini 2.5 to generate schemas from natural language for developers
View sourceShow HN: ChatExport Structurer – parse ChatGPT/Claude exports into queryable SQL
Converts JSON chat exports to SQL databases for querying; useful for building knowledge bases, archiving conversations; open source CLI tool
View sourceAsk HN: Seeking advice on designing a personal document server
Explores local DB stack choices (PostgreSQL tsvector vs Tantivy), indexing, language detection, and grouping for a multi-language doc server.
View sourceProduction-ready, self-hosted document search with SQLite, Python SDK, REST API; Gemini embeddings; 5-minute setup; Docker-ready; vendor lock-in-free.
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