Is there any application that provides similar features but can be integrated into an existing web application. We want our users to be able to do similar things for their internal reporting within our own application.
The kind of integration I'm looking for is an iframe embedded into the application ui and APIs for readily accessing common data
Baserow.io – Self-hosted Airtable alternative
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Re: Baserow.io – Self-hosted Airtable alternative
#202Earlier quoted context omitted.
> € 4,00 per user / month In the USA and I think all English speaking places we use dot rather than comma to separate decimals from whole number, and comma for thousands, millions etc. So at a glance (before looking closely) this looks like four thousand euros per user per month. I looked a second time and realized that was incorrect but consider fixing for EN- 4K/user/mo is quite shocking to read! :)
better use the user's browser locale + Intl to format the currency for you :)
Easier and better to just omit the decimal part: €4 per user per month.
Re: Baserow.io – Self-hosted Airtable alternative
#203Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hard disagree. Scalability and reliability, and SSO[0] are basic features any piece of software should have. Even a one-person startup shouldn't have to accept a tool being down for a month or all of their data lost due to a fire in a datacenter. Charging extra for any of these is a very shitty business model. 0 - sso.tax
How much scalability does one person need? And no HA doesn’t mean “down for a month”. It means I have no issue with enduring a few hours of downtime here and there. And HA and backups aren’t even related, so...
One person could still require significant capacity - imagine an API with flight info, and your one person SaaS that does some magic with it by getting the data real time for all flights around the world.
> And no HA doesn’t mean “down for a month”. It means I have no issue with enduring a few hours of downtime here and there
No HA means downtime is expected and frequent ( baring crazy luck, but let's not base business on hope). If your invoicing, or project management, or note taking or whatever SaaS is down and you need it now to do something for a client of yours, how many hours of downtime can you accept?
> And HA and backups aren’t even related, so...
You said scalability and reliability, good backups are a part of reliability. If a SaaS cheaps on backups and HA for small time clients like one-person companies or small startups, and then a fire burns it all ( but not entreprise customers, because their backups are replicated to another DC), is it OK because they were small?
Re: Baserow.io – Self-hosted Airtable alternative
#204I am so excited for this software. I have used Airtable extensively, and it's a pile of garbage. Here are just a FEW of the "features" Airtable charges $24/user/mo for: - Reliable 1-5 hours a month of downtime. There are months where it's literally 1 nine of uptime. Their status page was actually down for a while (I think they forgot to renew it?) - Simple and obvious bugs in the official API clients have not been fi…
Try force.com (fully featured developer account is free with limits), very stable and fully featured PaaS with long tail of features. On a quick review Airtable as a slick/modern UX on less sound architecture than force.com, probably shipping features in a breakneck pace.
Can't say if I just got rick-rolled.
Re: Baserow.io – Self-hosted Airtable alternative
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#206Earlier quoted context omitted.
Are your tables large enough Office 365 can't handle it for a reasonable price?
Do you mean excel, or has Microsoft come out with an airtable clone? Excel is a really poor substitute for airtable.
MS has also PowerApps and Power BI. I have never touched them, and I hope I never need to. But they seem to play remotely in the same area.
Re: Baserow.io – Self-hosted Airtable alternative
#207Earlier quoted context omitted.
salesforce.com? can't tell if you're making a joke, recommending SalesForce, or there's another company called force with a different TLD.
Not a Joke. I am recommending Salesforce.com's PaaS offering (used to licensed as force.com, now called "platform" [0]). Expensive, but it is IMHO the best low code cloud platform there is that has got every aspect (Apps, Identity, Security, ACLs, Workflows and Triggers, APIs) right. [0] https://www.salesforce.com/editions-pricing/platform/
Just hearing Salesforce should make you run as fast as you can , if you value your sanity as a developer.
Salesforce is unbeatable in marketing and sales strategy, but the products are horrible.
Re: Baserow.io – Self-hosted Airtable alternative
#208There's an interesting trend of open source clones of popular products. Most recent one that comes to mind is Athens [0] which is an open source clone of Roam Research. The business model is always that people who really want it for free can self host, and people who don't want to deal with the hassle will pay for hosting. Seems like a reasonable strategy to me. [0] https://github.com/athensresearch/athens
There is also Obsidian, which does not compete with Roam Research directly on all features (but comes pretty close), but is locally hosted. Great option for those seeking privacy of their notes and thoughts.
The thing I love about Obsidian is it's just a directory of markdown files. Still totally useful if Obsidian disappeared tomorrow.
I also just setup a cron job to daily check for changes, and if there are git commit and git push and now I can access my notes from any device with a browser.
Re: Baserow.io – Self-hosted Airtable alternative
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You mean AWS?
AWS is a few layers below that service. You can't tell AWS "give me a domain with baserow installed". Or at least not without going through the layers of describing how it's mapped to actual compute resources and how is deployed.
Yea, but you can tell AWS "give me a domain my (MySQL | Postgres | Elasticsearch | ...) installed, which I think was the parent poster's joke
Re: Baserow.io – Self-hosted Airtable alternative
#210Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not a Joke. I am recommending Salesforce.com's PaaS offering (used to licensed as force.com, now called "platform" [0]). Expensive, but it is IMHO the best low code cloud platform there is that has got every aspect (Apps, Identity, Security, ACLs, Workflows and Triggers, APIs) right. [0] https://www.salesforce.com/editions-pricing/platform/
I have never used a Salesforce app that was not terrible. I'm sure it provides lots of value to the business who use it, but it is awful awful for end users it is thrust upon.
My experience with Salesforce is exactly the promise of low code. Because you can get a lot more done without needing to be a software engineer, it empowers a whole extra set of people to build software without having to think in terms of reusability, performance, scalability, or a coherent data model. And you see the results of that.
I think as a platform it’s really powerful. (I’ve arrived at that after years of looking at it with disdain). But it’s problematic from our perspective exactly because it throws out anything we consider good habits of software development.