liam

I couldn't find many real-world examples of how companies promote their open source projects — so I decided to document what we did. In this post, I share our tactics, what worked, and lessons we learned while growing our OSS project from zero to 3,000 GitHub stars. Repo: https://github.com/liam-hq/liam

Hey HN, I’d like to share Liam ERD, an open-source tool that automatically generates beautiful and interactive ER diagrams from your database schemas (PostgreSQL, schema.rb, schema.prisma etc.). We built it to address the common pain of manually maintaining schema diagrams and to help teams keep their database documentation always up-to-date. Key features: - Beautiful UI & Interactive: A clean design and intuitive features (like panning, zooming, and filtering) make it easy to understand even the most complex databases. - Web + CLI: Use our web version for quick demos on public projects, or the CLI for private repos and CI/CD integration. - Scalable: Handles small to large schemas (100+ tables) without much hassle. - Apache-2.0 licensed: We welcome contributions, bug reports, and feature requests on GitHub. Example: For instance, here’s