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Also, why using this vs creating a desktop app? (There are ways to create GUI desktop apps in Python)
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thanks for the feedback! i'm curious, how critical are graphs for your internal tools and what are some examples of their use?
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.
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?
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i second that. for external-facing tools, you probably want something custom, branded, and more flexible. when it comes to internal tools, you typically want something quick to get the job done. at dropbase, our focus was on enabling developers to get stuff done efficiently. we noticed that for 90% of internal tool use cases, you only need a table and modal to get user input. so we focused on developing those. while…
Are you aware how most companies external apps look like? Here's how: They don't. What you compete with, what you have to beat, is not "something custom branded and more flexible". It's nothing at all. Cutting yourself out of that market with a tool that would easily be powerful and user friendly enough to fill this gap does not make any sense to me, if that is in fact your true reason. (And also I don't understand h…
What makes a web app "internal"? Does it mean it's just made to be run on localhost? Does it mean it would not run on a server? How so? Also, why using this vs creating a desktop app? (There are ways to create GUI desktop apps in Python)
What makes a web app "internal"? Does it mean it's just made to be run on localhost? Does it mean it would not run on a server? How so? Also, why using this vs creating a desktop app? (There are ways to create GUI desktop apps in Python)
I normally understand internal to mean an internal corporate application used by the employees.
the goal of internal apps is to optimize tasks that are tedious and time consuming, but not too common for an off-the-shelf product to be available.
since the internal apps aren't the main product developers work on in a company, they prefer to build them quickly with minimal resources.
internal tools usually run on a server, as does Dropbase
Did you guys pivoted Dropbase from CSV analytics to internal app builder? Interesting move. Internal.io just sunsetted. Maybe Dropbase has what it takes and finding its P/M fit.
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!
At my company we have recently started using NiceGUI which is a python wrapper for quasars+tailwind and seems like a very similar product. I’ve found it has a great level of abstraction that enables you to do Python only web App development without too much magic, but also lets you sprinkle in some CSS and javascript if needed.
Looks cool! I think there is a huge need for tools like this, especially as AI turns more subject matter experts into programmers who can code a bit of python. At my company we have recently started using NiceGUI which is a python wrapper for quasars+tailwind and seems like a very similar product. I’ve found it has a great level of abstraction that enables you to do Python only web App development without too much ma…
what kind of apps are you building with it?
I've built multiple internal tools like those in the example section, and even with a solid framework like react-admin, one of the first requests you're going to get from internal stakeholders is tweaks to the UI.
It's a myth that internal users aren't as demanding as external stakeholders. If anything, they can be more pushy.
I would not want to launch an internal tool, except as an engineering-only POC, unless customizing the frontend were at least as easy as customizing the backend.