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Probably German.
Majority of European countries use a decimal comma.
I'm French, where we use a comma for decimals, but a space for thousands.
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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.
> sanity as a developer
Low code is targeted at app building experience for non-developers/citizen coders. Curious if you have personal experience with the Salesforce platform and can provide details on some of your biggest gripes with it.
I have used it with great success in building simple “textbox on database” applications that are easy to maintain and change.
> hearing Salesforce alone What do you think about heroku?
I am genuinely interested in alternatives that is cheaper and don’t charge per user.
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I've noticed this as well and I really think there's a market for a simple self-hosted cloud server. Many people aren't comfortable with managing a server and all the tech aspects that come with it. What I envision is a bring-your-own server solution that provides recommended specs (or buy from the company as a funding source) and similar to the app store you can download containerized app, let's say from docker, wit…
https://cloud.google.com/marketplace Google cloud marketplace allows you to launch all kinds of open source solutions with a click. This includes the setup for databases. Though it's not a place that a non technical user would think to go, and I expect it's not really as simple as it promises. The devil is always in the details.
> Though it's not a place that a non technical user would think to go, and I expect it's not really as simple as it promises.
Exactly and you also don't own the data or have any expectation of privacy.
Re: Baserow.io – Self-hosted Airtable alternative
#214Hello everyone, I am Bram Wiepjes, the founder of Baserow. Baserow is an open source, soon to be open core, no-code database tool and Airtable alternative. Easily create your own relational database in a user friendly way without technical experience. - Unlimited rows. - Released under the MIT license. - Uses popular frameworks like Django and Vue.js. - Uses PostgreSQL as database backend. - It can be self hosted. -…
Incredible work!
Would Baserow be a good fit for using as database of subscription-based website? E.g. storing users, etc. You could have just static front-end and use Baserow as the database?
I'll definitely be looking further into it.
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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.
salesforce.com? can't tell if you're making a joke, recommending SalesForce, or there's another company called force with a different TLD.
Force.com used to be a dedicated domain for salesforce's easy to use enterprise development platform, which is quite popular. Seems like they've rolled it back under salesforce.com as a page.
Re: Baserow.io – Self-hosted Airtable alternative
#216I 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…
Just curious - what do you use airtable for exactly? When do you need a structured database with many collaborators? Airtable and the like strike me as a database tool for dummies who want 'anyone change anything anytime', which is just a recipe for no one knowing who the hell is changing what and when anymore.
Microsoft Access and Lotus Notes (and to a lesser extent SharePoint) both had these characteristics and are quite popular for the long tail of business processes that aren't covered by dedicated vendors. The only problem is the tech tends to age and it becomes hard to migrate the 1000+ bespoke "apps" that live inside the enterprise.
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#217I loaded up the demo and am impressed with what you'e achieved. However I cannot find any way to add column restraints, or mention of how to do so in any of the documentation.
Is there really no way to mark a column as "not null" or make a unique id that auto generates, or say a date column that gets set on insert?
I don't think these are very advanced features to ask of a SQL database and am confused why they appear to be missing.
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#218There'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
I think it's a smart way to make money with open-source projects. Charge for hosting and premium add-ons. For me Gatsby comes to mind. The framework will always be free but they have a build, CI and hosting platform that makes it easy. And i don't mind paying money for.
Open source as a marketing tool
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#219I'm really fond of retool. Is Baserow aimed in the same direction? That would be absolutely great! Here's a 4min demo video of retool: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkcwNwPy7RI
I think retool is so much more than Baserow. You could conceivably build an entire CRM in retool. Or, flesh out a headless API with an interface in retool.
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DabbleDB was way ahead of its time.
Yup, and it was built in an interesting way, if I remember correctly. Using the continuation-based Smalltalk Seaside framework.
A quote by Avi Bryant regarding continuations in Drabble DB "... in Dabble we essentially don't use continuations although we do use Seaside"
You can read the whole interview on https://www.infoq.com/interviews/bryant-smalltalk-dabbledb/