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Re: Ask HN: What are your favorite low-coding apps / tools as a developer?

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Sorry, I'm a bit new to GraphQL. Can you explain why this is more existing than starting a brand new product using plain PostgreSQL? Can you also explain how locked in you are, if you decide you want to migrate away from Hasura, or in general want more flexibility that the use-case of Hasura + ForestryAdmin?

With plain PostgreSQL you have to write your own backend logic to access the database. The whole point of Hasura is exposing your DB via a GraphQL API with some bells and whistles (like authorization). About lock-in... it's open source software, so you're as locked in as you'd be with, say, Rails or Django. It doesn't do anything special to PostgreSQL so you can always rewrite the API later from scratch, or build som…

So it's similar to http://postgrest.org/en/latest/ but for GraphQL, and commercial?

Re: Ask HN: What are your favorite low-coding apps / tools as a developer?

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The main issue with this viewpoint and your (arguably sensationalist) article is that it just finger points & blatantly ignores the reason those protections are in place. The number of people that consider Discord part of their threat model or an actual privacy risk is incredibly tiny compared to the number of users that get inconvenience by mass bot raids & people bypassing IP bans. I help manage a medium-sized Disc…

You're absolutely right when you offer that the majority of people are not directly harmed by practices that are discriminatory. Discrimination is almost always aimed at circumstances that affect a minority of people. It seems that you believe that you benefit from Discord's gatekeeping. I'm glad it seems to be working out for you. If it wasn't, however, how would you know?

Sorry, but no, you don't get to play a discrimination card here, because if we do, we're almost mocking people who are under real discrimination.

You don't agree with Discord's practices and lack of privacy, something which, by the way, I agree with you, and as such, decide not to use it. They are not discriminating against you, you're the one deciding not to use their service. To me, it sounds the same as if you don't like McDonalds because it's unhealthy, then accuse them of discriminating against you because they won't serve you some lean chicken salad.

Re: Ask HN: What are your favorite low-coding apps / tools as a developer?

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post #190

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sorry, I'm a bit new to GraphQL. Can you explain why this is more existing than starting a brand new product using plain PostgreSQL? Can you also explain how locked in you are, if you decide you want to migrate away from Hasura, or in general want more flexibility that the use-case of Hasura + ForestryAdmin?

With plain PostgreSQL you have to write your own backend logic to access the database. The whole point of Hasura is exposing your DB via a GraphQL API with some bells and whistles (like authorization). About lock-in... it's open source software, so you're as locked in as you'd be with, say, Rails or Django. It doesn't do anything special to PostgreSQL so you can always rewrite the API later from scratch, or build som…

With some frameworks (i.e. ASP.NET core) you already have authentication and authorization middleware if you need them and you can use an ORM to map data objects to tables and query the DB with ease.

What benefits would be using the DB over a GraphQL API?

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www.kaholo.io If you're looking to build automation pipelines in simple and fast way, you can use Kaholo.io visual DevOps tool to do that. It is low-code so you have complete flexibility and it doesn't require any unique scripting language.

Great solution for pipelines. Allowed the entire team to be develop pipelines with almost no onboarding

Re: Ask HN: What are your favorite low-coding apps / tools as a developer?

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I'm writing my own low code framework[0], so I'm really interested in this space. Over the past five weeks, I've been compiling a list of the most interesting software in this space. Here's an early draft: "The Low-Code Ecosystem" https://blog.remaketheweb.com/low-code-frameworks-for-buildi... I think there's _a ton_ of amazing tools being developed in this area right now. I'm looking forward to seeing how things dev…

Really a great list. Thanks.

Re: Ask HN: What are your favorite low-coding apps / tools as a developer?

#198

This just launched the other day but I thought it was pretty up there: https://fibery.io We use https://retool.com Honorable mention to my own startup https://flatfile.io if you're trying to skip past the data import problem.

> https://fibery.io

I've clicked through all of their product overviews and I still don't have a clear understanding of what it is.

If it just launched -- have you actually used it enough to get value out of it? The whole point seems to be that it evolves (??) as a company grows but like I said I don't fully get it still.

Re: Ask HN: What are your favorite low-coding apps / tools as a developer?

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www.kaholo.io If you're looking to build automation pipelines in simple and fast way, you can use Kaholo.io visual DevOps tool to do that. It is low-code so you have complete flexibility and it doesn't require any unique scripting language.

I can definitely recommend kaholo ;)

https://kaholo.io/

Re: Ask HN: What are your favorite low-coding apps / tools as a developer?

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post #190

Earlier quoted context omitted.

With plain PostgreSQL you have to write your own backend logic to access the database. The whole point of Hasura is exposing your DB via a GraphQL API with some bells and whistles (like authorization). About lock-in... it's open source software, so you're as locked in as you'd be with, say, Rails or Django. It doesn't do anything special to PostgreSQL so you can always rewrite the API later from scratch, or build som…

So it's similar to http://postgrest.org/en/latest/ but for GraphQL, and commercial?

GraphQL yes. But it's open source under the Apache License, code is in Github:

https://github.com/hasura/graphql-engine/

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