Looks promising but my biggest gripe is the visuals. Maybe in the future, you could support different themes or skins? It's great to be able to bootstrap a website quickly, but if this is going to be customer facing the design needs some love :)
Anvil: full stack web apps built only with Python
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yes, exactly, they found a way to monetize a product other than their framework, and they used the OSS framework to draw attention to the non os project. Whether that was deliberate or unintentional, I don't know, but it certainly worked out. EDIT: I agree with you that the product is good, and that the communication was excellent, but I disagree that the success of ROR was minor to the success of that company. It br…
But here the RAD is the product. Their end game. Basecamp was the product, and ROR just a by product of it. Complety different.
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#103This looks really really cool. In the 90s we had RAD tools like Delphi or Visual Basic which allow you to create simple apps very quickly. I feel that we are missing RAD on the web these days. There are so many different moving pieces. To do a full modern web app you need to learn different languages and frameworks plus other technologies for hosting such as containers or AWS, etc. That might work for complex apps, b…
Were you at PyCon UK this weekend? Cause you just repeated our pitch, just about word for word :) I started out on QBASIC and Visual Basic, back in the day, and as far as I'm concerned it's practically dereliction of duty that there wasn't something similar available for the web. Eventually, we got fed up enough to go and build it ourselves.
It is really cool to see someone reviving the RAD concept, especially within the Python ecosystem. I was pretty big into Delphi back in the day--even worked for Borland testing it for a bit. I'm looking forward to trying this out.
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#104Looks promising but my biggest gripe is the visuals. Maybe in the future, you could support different themes or skins? It's great to be able to bootstrap a website quickly, but if this is going to be customer facing the design needs some love :)
We already do! Paid users can choose "Assets" in the app browser and edit the HTML/CSS/etc. (You can also check the app out with Git and edit them there.)
We'll also be adding more built-in themes before long :)
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#105What if I want to run my own custom Python server code...say I have some Cythonized modules or C extensions. Do you guys support this model?
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#106Earlier quoted context omitted.
This looks awesome! I am all for automating this stuff. Who do you see as your biggest customers?
This is a really hard question to answer. We've got everyone from scrappy one-person startups building products on Anvil, to larger startups pumping terrifying quantities of money through Anvil apps, to Seriously Large Companies We Can't Name building internal tools with our on-premises version. Right now we're taking it all as it comes, but we never want to lose our focus on accessibility: It's way too hard to build…
Can you give examples of live sites running on Anvil?
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#107What if I want to run my own custom Python server code...say I have some Cythonized modules or C extensions. Do you guys support this model?
Yes, we do! Check out the Uplink: https://anvil.works/blog/uplink
It's a library you `pip install`, which lets you connect Python code running anywhere in the world to your Anvil app. Everything you can do from Anvil server code, you can do from your Python code, wherever it's running. You can define server functions, HTTP endpoints, access data tables, etc.
We have customers controlling IoT devices with it (like that Raspberry Pi video). We also have companies driving big machine learning jobs on EC2 servers with tons of GPUs - but with all the UI and housekeeping in Anvil.
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#108I can't wait to try this out! The introduction video is incredibly compelling and it looks like an amazing product. Nice work!
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#109I am torn: 1. Great idea, just what "we" need in the language we need. (Python cloud RAD). 2. But I don't want to do all this work and be locked into your system forever. I want to be able to run this on Digital Ocean or AWS etc. if I want. I think am open source version where you give people an option of hosting on your site at first would be the best compromise. Please consider it.
From the website, it looks like you can clone the git repo locally, so you would have the code. Now what I want to know through is if that repo contains all the "magic" code that anvil does. You have to upgrade to PRO in order to clone a git repo unfortunately.
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#110i met these guys at pycon. they are very responsive to feedback.
Hello! I don't recognise your username, but might recognise your face. Hope you enjoyed the con :)