Show HN: Budibase – An open-source low code platform • Hacker News Board

Re: Show HN: Budibase – An open-source low code platform

#21

Post by f6v » Tue, Nov 16, 2021, 5:41 PM UTC

But what if I want to see the pricing right away?

Re: Show HN: Budibase – An open-source low code platform

#22

Post by shogunpurple » Tue, Nov 16, 2021, 5:53 PM UTC

captn3m0 wrote: post #20

I've been looking for a no-code solution to quickly build webapps on top of APIs exposed for mobile apps. I've been documenting OpenAPI specs[0], and evaluated most Nocode solutions in the market, trying out the "Rest API" integration in all of them. Did the same for Budibase, and here's some feedback (on just the REST API integration): 1. Please link the (?) icon to the correct place in the docs. eg, if I'm on the R…

Thanks so much for this detailed feedback.

We are actually currently planning work to greatly improve the experience of the REST API integration (including better docs) - due to it being such a fundamental part of building any software.

1) Good catch, we will fix that right away. 2) Great suggestion, this will definitely help guide the user. 3) Very valid - there will be a more wizard based experience for the REST connector soon. It's quite manual at the moment. Appreciate that you liked the handlebars templating experience! 4) This is a big feature for budibase - we try and auto generate as much as we can, to make the dev experience faster. 5) More docs and guidance around this is on the way with our "blocks" feature, which should make building forms a much more pleasant experience. 6) as above.

Gitbooks is a pretty nice platform - it takes a lot of the effort out of creating/designing docs and they recently updated their editor, so we are very happy with it!

Re: Show HN: Budibase – An open-source low code platform

#23

Post by mjashanks » Tue, Nov 16, 2021, 5:54 PM UTC

f6v wrote: post #21

But what if I want to see the pricing right away?

We haven’t yet worked out out our pricing model for Budibase Cloud. However, it will most likely be user-based / per seat - similar to platforms like Retool & Airtable.

Re: Show HN: Budibase – An open-source low code platform

#24

Post by foxbee » Tue, Nov 16, 2021, 5:59 PM UTC

gerdydog wrote: post #17

I have played around with this product a few times over the last few months! It's getting better with every release. I used it for an internal work tool last week and was able to be up and running in less than an hour, where normally I'd have spent a day at it. Using the blocks lets me forget about the design as well. Would recommend everyone have play with it!

Appreciate the feedback. Blocks are a new feature, and we plan on adding many more

Re: Show HN: Budibase – An open-source low code platform

#25

Post by ramon » Tue, Nov 16, 2021, 6:01 PM UTC

This to me seems like the more feature full low-code open-source alternative available, congratulations!

Re: Show HN: Budibase – An open-source low code platform

#26

Post by jFriedensreich » Tue, Nov 16, 2021, 6:06 PM UTC

congrats! following you for a while now and i think this could hit a sweet spot that is currently only occupied by retool.

Re: Show HN: Budibase – An open-source low code platform

#27

Post by foxbee » Tue, Nov 16, 2021, 6:07 PM UTC

ramon wrote: post #25

This to me seems like the more feature full low-code open-source alternative available, congratulations!

Cheers. We've been working on it for quite some time so I appreciate your kind words.

Re: Show HN: Budibase – An open-source low code platform

#28

Post by foxbee » Tue, Nov 16, 2021, 6:08 PM UTC

jFriedensreich wrote: post #26

congrats! following you for a while now and i think this could hit a sweet spot that is currently only occupied by retool.

Thanks + it's open source which every dev tool should be!

Re: Show HN: Budibase – An open-source low code platform

#29

Post by swyx » Tue, Nov 16, 2021, 6:10 PM UTC

just chiming in to congratulate you on a successful Product Hunt launch today as well! (https://www.producthunt.com/posts/budibase)

i gotta ask about the tradeoffs of being open source. It's great for trust and marketing, but if people can self-host Budibase they're always weighing DIY vs paying you. I also work in an open source company and I know product development is often slowed because you have to consider the open ended needs of the open source users vs the constrained assumptions of your cloud.

Any insights or rules of thumb you've developed to think about running an open source business?

Re: Show HN: Budibase – An open-source low code platform

#30

Post by jimiljojo » Tue, Nov 16, 2021, 6:17 PM UTC

congrats! I work in a similar space, and this looks promising. Suggestion for your marketing team - the promo demo is great, but make it HD. The demo recording is pixelated on 4K res. You can do better :) Good luck!