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Post by saralily »

telekid wrote: post #129
simplify wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I really want to like Hasura, but very quickly you'll run into limitations of its permission system. Especially when dealing with logic across relationships. If only Hasura supported some king of Prolog / Datalog instead of their ad-hoc JSON language, then you'd be able to write nearly any possible use cases. Until then, I'll stick to building and maintaining my own backends... manually :(

Are you aware of http://www.hyperfiddle.net/ ?

Been on the invite list for like, two years and haven't heard a peep. It sounds perfect. But there's no there there.

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Post by pratikshadake »

I like https://www.appsmith.com/ which provides front end as a service for publishing internal tools.

The good thing about appsmith is it comes with self-hosted version. For data-conscious companies, it's the perfect solution.

Developers can collaboratively build internal tools and publish them.

The vast library of UI components on appsmith gives you enough flexibility to build the apps the way you want them with simple drag and drops.

You can build your internal apps by connecting APIs as well as databases. I personally like the API support as it gives me control over input validations and flexibility to add business logic as well.

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Post by pitchups »

gavinray wrote: post #15

Hasura by far, lets you point-and-click build your database and table relationships with a web dashboard and autogenerates a full GraphQL CRUD API with permissions you can configure and JWT/webhook auth baked-in. https://hasura.io/ I've been able to build in a weekend no-code what would've taken my team weeks or months to build by hand, even with something as productive as Rails. It automates the boring stuff and you…

Would be interested to know if you can do all this by using their open-source conmmunity edition, or would you need to use their paid / Pro version. Since the pricing for the paid version is not given, not sure but assuming it would be fairly expensive to use / deploy? My preference is for an open source tool so we are not locked in to a propreitary platform for the long term.

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Post by welanes »

ollerac wrote: post #237
welanes wrote: post #27

It depends on what you're trying to accomplish. For building websites, Webflow is powerful (and allows for fine-tuning). Among utilities, Parabola (a kind of no-code extract, transform, load tool) is very neat. For getting data/creating APIs without having to code I've built Simplescraper - https://simplescraper.io . Currently working on an integration for Airtable that allows you to create a dynamic CMS using any da…

I'd love to know about when your Airtable integration will launch. Is there a place I can sign up for that?

Hey, the best place to keep updated is https://twitter.com/simplescraper

If you're not on Twitter, we hope to submit the integration by the end of this month so check us out then.

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Post by stevehind »

crabl wrote: post #50

Being a part of the Dark beta ( https://darklang.com ) has been incredible. It makes setting up a simple backend with persistent storage a breeze.

I've been a Dark beta user since last year and have built several small side projects on it. I think it's fantastic. But I'd describe it as "just code" and not "low code".

To make it work, you have to write all the code! However, you _don't_ have to worry about provisioning databases, deploying, etc, etc, etc.

Makes it really satisfying as a learning to build something and have it be live without getting stuck in heroku / mongodb / etc hell.

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Post by dboskovic »

wingerlang wrote: post #198
dboskovic wrote: post #167

This just launched the other day but I thought it was pretty up there: https://fibery.io We use https://retool.com Honorable mention to my own startup https://flatfile.io if you're trying to skip past the data import problem.

> https://fibery.io I've clicked through all of their product overviews and I still don't have a clear understanding of what it is. If it just launched -- have you actually used it enough to get value out of it? The whole point seems to be that it evolves (??) as a company grows but like I said I don't fully get it still.

I've started playing with it but definitely haven't gotten far - behaves very much like Airtable with more focus on the less "tabular" layouts. Like if Airtable Blocks were first-class citizens.

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Post by sneak »

GonzaloQuero wrote: post #206
sneak wrote: post #203

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The people doing the discrimination are the groups that choose Discord as their communications tool. They are excluding all users who can’t get Discord accounts, such as those who can’t agree to the Discord TOS, for example. Free software projects and other public benefit groups should not be discriminatory. They’re also banning political cartoons within their group’s communications, by implicit inclusion of the Disc…

But that's the thing: You CAN agree to the TOS, you just choose to not, unless I'm severely misunderstanding your situation and you're in real, physical danger if you create a Discord account. For the sake of a better argument, can you clarify if you're in danger, or physically unable to create an account, or if it's a privacy choice, please?

Let’s set aside my personal circumstances: why must someone be in imminent physical danger for it to not be discrimination? Everyone has a human right to privacy, regardless of whether or not they are a famous person with a stalker who wants to track them down.

The presence or absence of threats against one’s person does not legitimize or delegitimize their insistence upon personal privacy.

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Post by mycall »

Hawxy wrote: post #180
sneak wrote: post #117

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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...

The main issue with this viewpoint and your (arguably sensationalist) article is that it just finger points & blatantly ignores the reason those protections are in place. The number of people that consider Discord part of their threat model or an actual privacy risk is incredibly tiny compared to the number of users that get inconvenience by mass bot raids & people bypassing IP bans. I help manage a medium-sized Disc…

It would seem that anonymous VOIP gateways could easily bypass that telephone requirement.

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Post by nselman »

mmalaguti wrote: post #227
nselman wrote: post #223

I work at YC-backed https://draftbit.com -- we're in private beta but I can prioritize invites for anyone asking themselves this same question. It's pretty much what we're here to solve.

I would love to get in as I am definitely asking myself this question. This seems great!

interested folks can reply to the email they get on-signup and mention the HN thread and wanting to jump the line
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