Show HN: Very Good Table is a no-code database for small businesses

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Post by tannerljohnson » Fri, Mar 25, 2022, 5:24 PM UTC

Show HN: Very Good Table is a no-code database for small businesses
verygoodtable.com

Re: Show HN: Very Good Table is a no-code database for small businesses

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Post by FastMonkey » Fri, Mar 25, 2022, 7:26 PM UTC

Looks great! There's a lot of small businesses that have been upsold on Salesforce who are now finding out that all they needed was a moderate step up from excel to a simple database. I'd love to see a bit more visible detail on integrations: what does the native slack and email integration allow you to do, what are the top 10 apps people are adding etc.

Re: Show HN: Very Good Table is a no-code database for small businesses

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Post by nickgervasi » Fri, Mar 25, 2022, 8:47 PM UTC

FastMonkey wrote: post #2

Looks great! There's a lot of small businesses that have been upsold on Salesforce who are now finding out that all they needed was a moderate step up from excel to a simple database. I'd love to see a bit more visible detail on integrations: what does the native slack and email integration allow you to do, what are the top 10 apps people are adding etc.

Thanks for the feedback! I'm one of the creators of Very Good Table.

We've seen a similar trend ourselves and most of the time, Salesforce is far more complex than what SMBs actually need. Plus it's a nightmare to customize and maintain without hiring specialists.

The rest of your points make sense as well - we'll be sure to elaborate on the specifics of what you can accomplish with the integrations as well as how SMBs are using Very Good Table.

Thanks again for checking it out!

Re: Show HN: Very Good Table is a no-code database for small businesses

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Post by tomatowurst » Fri, Mar 25, 2022, 10:11 PM UTC

not bad, can you share your tech stack here?

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Post by indianajensen » Fri, Mar 25, 2022, 11:14 PM UTC

Very nice, well done! What would you say are the main differentiators to airtable and coda?

Re: Show HN: Very Good Table is a no-code database for small businesses

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Post by nickgervasi » Fri, Mar 25, 2022, 11:51 PM UTC

tomatowurst wrote: post #4

not bad, can you share your tech stack here?

Sure! Our backend is Ruby on Rails with PostgreSQL. API layer is GraphQL, and React/Apollo on the frontend.

Re: Show HN: Very Good Table is a no-code database for small businesses

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Post by nickgervasi » Fri, Mar 25, 2022, 11:54 PM UTC

indianajensen wrote: post #5

Very nice, well done! What would you say are the main differentiators to airtable and coda?

Thanks! I’d say the main differentiator over something like Airtable is being able to customize the record details page through our interface builder. We just launched today, but there will be more to come :)

Re: Show HN: Very Good Table is a no-code database for small businesses

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Post by bwb » Sat, Mar 26, 2022, 5:32 PM UTC

nickgervasi wrote: post #7

indianajensen wrote: post #5

Very nice, well done! What would you say are the main differentiators to airtable and coda?

Thanks! I’d say the main differentiator over something like Airtable is being able to customize the record details page through our interface builder. We just launched today, but there will be more to come :)

Nice! Ill check it out soon as well

Re: Show HN: Very Good Table is a no-code database for small businesses

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Post by rco8786 » Mon, Mar 28, 2022, 1:02 PM UTC

The return of Microsoft Access!

I love it.

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Post by nickgervasi » Mon, Mar 28, 2022, 5:30 PM UTC

rco8786 wrote: post #9

The return of Microsoft Access! I love it.

One of the creators of Very Good Table here - I used MS Access a ton in the late 90's and early 2000's and have yet to see the equivalent on the web, even with solutions like Airtable out there. It was a big inspiration for building VGT. :)