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

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Post by peschu »

AllanHoustonSt wrote: post #33
paulgb wrote: post #23

Google Sheets can be surprisingly handy as a UI for editing data. For example, I have a job on AWS that scrapes a handful of URLs and snapshots them. Instead of creating a database and hosting it somewhere, or hard-coding them, I put them in a spreadsheet that the AWS job reads at the beginning of every run.

I continually find myself amazed with what people can do with Excel.

haha yeah and I always wonder why especially engineers are so creative in using Excel as a graphics/painting tool :) Looks good, but a nightmare to read in a programmatic way ^^

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

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Post by gavinray »

sneak wrote: post #98
gavinray wrote: post #93

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Tanmai, their CEO, gave a response in the Discord on this question a few weeks ago: "The pricing depends on your team/org: what features you’re using Hasura and the uptime/response SLA that you need. If you have something running with Hasura already feel free to setup a chat with the team to get a sense of the pricing. However we will have something launching for self-serve style pricing soon for a managed HA / auto-…

That’s a double whammy. I and many others are prevented from creating a Discord account.

Tanmai is on email 24/7, you've honestly got a better chance of reaching him there than on Discord:

tanmaig@hasura.io

I just use Discord because it's immediate feedback.

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

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Post by codeguitardog »

WayScript lets you trigger scripts in Python, SQL, Javascript, etc. It also lets you instantly set up endpoints for 'instant APIs', dashboards, and script automation.

https://wayscript.com

The platform supports complex data structures and is very customizable. It also is community focused and allows developers to contribute scripts, APIs, and other content to the platform.

You can watch a bunch of tutorials on their YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCv1JpM-XII0PMnqoCJfZA2g

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

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Post by splike »

sneak wrote: post #98
gavinray wrote: post #93

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Tanmai, their CEO, gave a response in the Discord on this question a few weeks ago: "The pricing depends on your team/org: what features you’re using Hasura and the uptime/response SLA that you need. If you have something running with Hasura already feel free to setup a chat with the team to get a sense of the pricing. However we will have something launching for self-serve style pricing soon for a managed HA / auto-…

That’s a double whammy. I and many others are prevented from creating a Discord account.

I agree that Discord seems like an odd place to find this information, but I'm curious to know what prevents you from creating a Discord account?

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

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Post by freeqaz »

On the "low-code" side, you might be interested in Refinery.

https://refinery.io

It lets you build and deploy applications super, super quickly on top of AWS Lambda. You build applications by composing high-level building blocks, which are small business logic units and are chained together on a visual graph of your application.

The cool this is that you can re-use "code blocks" across projects and they follow the same input/output rules (plain JSON) so you can mix + match languages in a single project. If you want to make an API endpoint, you just add an API Endpoint block, wire that to a code block, then wire that to a response. Easy. Same with Cron jobs -- you just link a timer to a code block and you're good.

Logs are handled in the UI for you so you don't have to muck with AWS at all (the deployment to AWS is effectively an implementation detail that you don't have to know about). Pricing is the same as AWS (usage based) -- we just add a surcharge as a flat percentage.

It started out as a side project to solve a similar frustration to the ones you're describing, and it's snowballed from there (I'm a co-author of Refinery). :P

It's still fairly early (and we're adding big features still). Feedback is welcome!

Some examples:

- List of demo apps https://refinery.io/discover

- Map/reduce using fan-out transitions https://docs.refinery.io/tutorials/fan-out-fan-in/

- Docs on the different Block types https://docs.refinery.io/blocks/

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

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Post by peschu »

cuchoi wrote: post #34
dominotw wrote: post #18

airtable + zapier replaced like 70% of internal apps.

Can you expand on how is Zapier helping? I am using Airtable + Python because I felt too constrained by Zapier.

May I ask, what a (real) use case for airtable would be?

When I saw 1200/5000 rows per "base" I was searching for the "k" (x1000) but they seem to be serious.

I don't see a real advantage for example to g suite(maybe only that it is not google) :)?

But maybe I just don't see the point...thx for clarification

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

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Post by sneak »

splike wrote: post #114
sneak wrote: post #98

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That’s a double whammy. I and many others are prevented from creating a Discord account.

I agree that Discord seems like an odd place to find this information, but I'm curious to know what prevents you from creating a Discord account?

You can’t create a Discord account without doxxing yourself. Signups not from an IP that discloses your location demand a dozen captchas and a telephone number. Using a burner number is not supported, and your carrier number is reversible to name/address/location just as your IP is.

more info: https://sneak.berlin/20200220/discord-is-not-an-acceptable-c...

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

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Post by matijash »

What a great thread! To add to the list of tools other already mentioned, we are building https://wasp-lang.dev/ - it is a language that aims to be dev-friendly and compiles to React/Node. We are still pre-Alpha but would love to get your feedback.

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

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Post by vlokshin »

I'd probably fall more under designer than developer, but I love Webflow: https://webflow.com/

Our marketing website cycles have gotten so much shorter with Webflow. Even though it's just replacing HTML/CSS/JS for marketing sites, the direct design and publish access in a way that's intuitive and reliable saves us time directly on the marketing site (0 dev time now) and frees up dev to focus on more interesting things. We've gone from design -> develop -> commit/publish, to design + publish in one nice tool.

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