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DevTool • SaaS • Productivity
## What is Firepanel?
Firepanel is the admin panel Firebase forgot to build.
The Firebase console works — but it's slow, ugly, and built for setup, not for daily data work. Every Firebase dev I know has the same daily friction: filtering documents is painful, bulk operations don't exist, editing a nested field takes 6 clicks, and on mobile you basically can't.
So I built the dashboard Firebase should have built. Connect any Firebase project in 30 seconds — paste a service account, no code — and start managing your backend the way you always wished you could.
## Why I built it
Two months ago I was wrestling with the Firebase console for a side project and thought "someone must have built a real admin panel for this." A few hours of searching later: nope, nothing modern, nothing developer-grade. Firebase has 3 million developers and the only "admin UI" is a console designed in 2018.
So I shipped one. Solo. In 2 months. With Claude Code doing the heavy lifting on implementation while I made the product calls.
## What's live today
Firestore module — full CRUD, production-grade.
- Neon-style table with column type labels, virtualisation for huge collections, and 36ms-class render performance
- Full keyboard navigation — open, edit, delete, save, undo, all without touching the mouse
- Search, sort, filter, bulk operations, saved views, column management
- Inline editing for primitives, slide-in detail view for complex documents
- Undo on every destructive action — delete a doc, restore it with one click
- Type-aware editors for every Firestore field type: string, number, boolean, timestamp, geopoint, reference, array, map
- GeoPoint visualised on a real map. Reference fields with a smart document picker. Monaco editor for raw JSON edits.
- JSON and CSV export for whole collections or selected rows
- Command palette (⌘K) for every action
Security and trust, by design.
- Your Firebase service account is encrypted with AES-256-GCM the moment you paste it. Decryption only happens server-side when needed.
- Firepanel never stores your actual Firestore data. We read live from your Firebase, pass it to your browser, and forget it.
- One-click disconnect deletes your encrypted credentials immediately
- Honest about what we don't have yet: no SOC-2 certification (we're a private beta), and that's on the roadmap
Billing, docs, the boring stuff that makes it real.
- Free tier for solo devs: 1 project, 3 writes/day, unlimited reads
- Pro at ₹699/mo for unlimited writes and 3 projects
- Team and Business tiers for shared projects
- Full GitBook-style docs at /docs covering every feature
- Razorpay subscriptions for Indian users; global payment support shipping next week
## What's shipping next
- Auth module — manage Firebase Auth users, custom claims, providers, bulk operations
- Storage module — browse Firebase Storage, signed URLs, file management
- AI queries — type "show me users who signed up last week and have premium=true" and Firepanel writes the Firestore query, runs it, shows results
- Role-based permissions and team audit logs — owner / admin / editor / viewer with granular per-collection access
- SSO — for team and business plans
## Who it's for
Indie hackers, mobile app developers, vibe coders, MVP builders, solo founders — anyone who lives in their Firebase data and is tired of the console.
If you use Firebase, please try it and tell me what's broken. I read every email, every comment, every DM. Brutally honest feedback only — it's how the next features get prioritised.
Built solo by Rohan. Live at getfirepanel.com 🔥
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