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Re: Show HN: Dropbase – Build internal web apps with just Python

#101

This is interesting, congrats! I'd really like to try it on my own, without booking a demo. Is it possible somehow ? Thank you!

Thanks! Yes, absolutely! All HN readers can try without booking a demo. Get an account here: https://docs.dropbase.io/setup/ and then follow instructions for local development setup here: https://docs.dropbase.io/setup/developer

Re: Show HN: Dropbase – Build internal web apps with just Python

#103

This is interesting, congrats! I'd really like to try it on my own, without booking a demo. Is it possible somehow ? Thank you!

Thanks! Yes, absolutely! All HN readers can try without booking a demo. Get an account here: https://docs.dropbase.io/setup/ and then follow instructions for local development setup here: https://docs.dropbase.io/setup/developer

Thank you so much, I'll try it !

Re: Show HN: Dropbase – Build internal web apps with just Python

#104
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yes, that’s us. glad to see you remember our previous iteration :) internal app builder is certainly a challenging market to break into, but we believe we have something interesting to offer and are quite optimistic about our approach. were you a customer of the previous dropbase version (csv to database)? thanks again for your interest, it is always appreciated!

I was hoping you were the hardcore techno label. What a pivot!

Ha! What a pivot that would have been! And the story behind it!

Re: Show HN: Dropbase – Build internal web apps with just Python

#105
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Pretty darn critical! I built a service a few years ago to scrape natural gas volumes from different refineries and my client wanted that data plotted over time. Another project collected and displayed wellhead pressure data. Oh yeah, maps are also super important, and being able to overlay different statistics and or graphics over them.

thank you for sharing! i think we'll get there eventually and add components beyond tables, such as charts and maps. current focus is to get the table+sidebar experience right first. the thing that differentiates us from dashboarding tools is that with us an end user can trigger a task that gets or acts on data (as opposed to rearrangement of existing data on ui). could you elaborate on cron jobs being a pain point?…

> could you elaborate on cron jobs being a pain point? would you use it as a scheduled task to fetch/prepare data before user logs in or let users schedule jobs on their own to run async? any use cases you could share?

Sure, I've used cron jobs to collect data, send reports, and check if any users should receive push notifications or alert emails.

The pain point is that celery can be a little tricky to configure when you're working with docker-compose. It works, but if I had to re-figure everything out again, it would take me a while.

Re: Show HN: Dropbase – Build internal web apps with just Python

#106

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Pretty darn critical! I built a service a few years ago to scrape natural gas volumes from different refineries and my client wanted that data plotted over time. Another project collected and displayed wellhead pressure data. Oh yeah, maps are also super important, and being able to overlay different statistics and or graphics over them.

Hi - sorry for the random note - but would you mind chatting about this?

Sure, what do you want to know? We can also take this discussion to email or mastodon or whatever.

Re: Show HN: Dropbase – Build internal web apps with just Python

#107

Chainlit is my new favorite Python webapp framework, it’s especially geared toward UI for LLM chat apps. (It has nothing to do with LangChain fortunately, though it does support it and the name probably is inspired by it). There are unique challenges in making a decent looking chat app. State management is one such. Streamlit’s approach is to rerun the script on every action, which means your code needs to be aware o…

Looks interesting! I'll check it out. We don't currently focus on chat apps and don't have a chat component yet so it'd be significantly harder to do this.

Re: Show HN: Dropbase – Build internal web apps with just Python

#109
post #18

How would you compare this to tools like Budibase?

I wouldn't. Budibase looks like a no-code tool and we are code-centric. I saw in your profile that you are the cofounder of Budibase - perhaps you can confirm my understanding.
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