Live data from Hacker News

Show HN: Micasa – track your house from the terminal

micasa.dev

171–180 of 230 posts

Re: Show HN: Micasa – track your house from the terminal

#171

I found a bug. In the docs ( https://micasa.dev/docs/guide/dashboard/ ), it says "Active Projects: 2" but should say "Active Projects: 20".

Projects have statuses, and not all of those statuses are active. Some projects are in the planning phase, for example.

Re: Show HN: Micasa – track your house from the terminal

#173
post #149

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Good question. Do you have a screenshot you can share?

Literally almost every frame of the gif on your landing page: title, type, project, etc.

Hard to balance the terminal font size, page styling, and desire to show something.

I decided that truncation was better than sacrificing font size or spending eternity noodling on page styling.

All ears if you've got any ideas.

Re: Show HN: Micasa – track your house from the terminal

#174
post #153
post #134

Earlier quoted context omitted.

FileMarker Pro had a dedicated server product (FileMaker Server) that you could use for multi-user access. Claris still sells it: https://www.claris.com/filemaker/ Microsoft Access was strictly file based. You could drop the .mdb/.accdb file on a SMB share and it would support basic concurrency via lock files. However, you could also swap out the internal database engine (Jet) with anything else via ODBC, so your Acc…

I know a dude who runs his business off of FileMaker and even does work for his customers building them FileMaker stuff. He loves it. I should probably give it a shot.

[dead]

Re: Show HN: Micasa – track your house from the terminal

#176

This is quite cool. Makes me philosophical: isn't it odd, that this is like an Excel template? Like a "domain model" template? In this case, presented nicely in a TUI that makes basic CRUD workflows work. Most SaaS companies are just that: 1) Curated domain model (stored in their cloud db) 2) Some way for users do to almost raw CRUD on the tables 3) Curated high-level domain specific workflows that do n CRUD calls un…

Back at a job I had in ~2008 we built a library to convert an Excel spreadsheet into a fully functional web based configurator. I've talked about it here previously[1].

I have always thought that it was a missed opportunity that we'd never reused it nor turned it into any sort of SaaS. It seems to me like such an obvious and easy way to let your clients define their own business logic without having to maintain it yourself.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20793043

Re: Show HN: Micasa – track your house from the terminal

#177

This is quite cool. Makes me philosophical: isn't it odd, that this is like an Excel template? Like a "domain model" template? In this case, presented nicely in a TUI that makes basic CRUD workflows work. Most SaaS companies are just that: 1) Curated domain model (stored in their cloud db) 2) Some way for users do to almost raw CRUD on the tables 3) Curated high-level domain specific workflows that do n CRUD calls un…

Web UI's for power tools are generally not a good idea. A browser will always have limitations and not quite reach the level of e.g. a TUI. On the other hand, TUI's as you point out has some serious limitations on its own.

So the answer is native app - I think what the world need is a super fast native spreadsheet that is NOT Excel. Kinda like a combination of Excel, TUI, and MS Access in one. Fast like Numbers.app, not sluggish like Excel is.

I'd use that. But it needs to have a keyboard centric operation, and be faster and a very solid, near industrial design, no "the latest flavor of someone's Figma design". I'm having a tough time explaining this.

What do you guys think?

Re: Show HN: Micasa – track your house from the terminal

#178

This is quite cool. Makes me philosophical: isn't it odd, that this is like an Excel template? Like a "domain model" template? In this case, presented nicely in a TUI that makes basic CRUD workflows work. Most SaaS companies are just that: 1) Curated domain model (stored in their cloud db) 2) Some way for users do to almost raw CRUD on the tables 3) Curated high-level domain specific workflows that do n CRUD calls un…

dBase was the gold standard for this back in the 80s, early 90s. Great tool. Both the "dev" part and how it could be made available to non developers. The freedom of spreadsheets when developing and the constraints of a TUI (or just UI in those days) for users.

Maybe we need a new dBase.

Re: Show HN: Micasa – track your house from the terminal

#179

This is quite cool. Makes me philosophical: isn't it odd, that this is like an Excel template? Like a "domain model" template? In this case, presented nicely in a TUI that makes basic CRUD workflows work. Most SaaS companies are just that: 1) Curated domain model (stored in their cloud db) 2) Some way for users do to almost raw CRUD on the tables 3) Curated high-level domain specific workflows that do n CRUD calls un…

dBase was the gold standard for this back in the 80s, early 90s. Great tool. Both the "dev" part and how it could be made available to non developers. The freedom of spreadsheets when developing and the constraints of a TUI (or just UI in those days) for users.

Our ERP is dBase+SQL server with Harbour executables, until I don't move all the database to SQL server it will be like that

Re: Show HN: Micasa – track your house from the terminal

#180
This is really cool. At the moment we use a Trello board to track all of our house jobs, projects, reminders and issues. Then we have Home Assistant for all of our sensors and such.

My only concern about something like this is the WAF. My wife uses Trello. She would likely not use terminal. Also she only uses a phone so lack of mobile app or website is another blocker.

But it’s a cool app

Post reply on HN