Looks awesome. I'm a bit jealous Rails has this resource coming from the Django world (although I know django admin also great but has its limitations)
Show HN: Avo – Build Ruby on Rails apps faster
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Re: Show HN: Avo – Build Ruby on Rails apps faster
#12Looks awesome. I'm a bit jealous Rails has this resource coming from the Django world (although I know django admin also great but has its limitations)
Yes its a shame django isn't as active as rails
Re: Show HN: Avo – Build Ruby on Rails apps faster
#13Hey HN, I'm Adrian, an indie developer and creator of Avo. For more than ten years, I built countless admin panels and back-offices for all types of apps. After a while, you start to notice patterns and extract functionality away to make the job easier. I took those patterns and applied them to Avo. Now, in just an hour, a developer can build production-ready applications that with traditional coding techniques take…
Why did you call it Avo? I'm curious because I know of at least 4 SaaS companies called Avo.
The original name was project Avocado, but I didn't find any good domain names and social media handles. I agree the naming could have been better.
Re: Show HN: Avo – Build Ruby on Rails apps faster
#14Hey HN, I'm Adrian, an indie developer and creator of Avo. For more than ten years, I built countless admin panels and back-offices for all types of apps. After a while, you start to notice patterns and extract functionality away to make the job easier. I took those patterns and applied them to Avo. Now, in just an hour, a developer can build production-ready applications that with traditional coding techniques take…
Hi! Is it possible to have multi language support? (translations of records, think globalize)
The UI is fully translatable and you can hook into the localization system and have multilingual content too.
Re: Show HN: Avo – Build Ruby on Rails apps faster
#15This looks so good... I've been always using Node, Deno or .NET Core for backend infrastructure, but Avo makes me wanna learn Ruby and RoR and make the jump for client-related work. Congrats!
It's not that difficult. Really. I have a developer friend that comes from Node.JS world and is amazed how quickly he can build apps with Rails.
I'd love talk to you if you ever want to try it out.
Re: Show HN: Avo – Build Ruby on Rails apps faster
#16Hey HN, I'm Adrian, an indie developer and creator of Avo. For more than ten years, I built countless admin panels and back-offices for all types of apps. After a while, you start to notice patterns and extract functionality away to make the job easier. I took those patterns and applied them to Avo. Now, in just an hour, a developer can build production-ready applications that with traditional coding techniques take…
How does your offering compare to Jumpstart Rails (https://jumpstartrails.com/)? Are they competitors? If so, what are the pros/cons of Avo?
Re: Show HN: Avo – Build Ruby on Rails apps faster
#17Looks incredible. Seems like it is really tailored to small -medium sized apps or devs doing client work. How do you deal with objections around scaling out and lock in? I am loving the renaissance of “boring” tech stacks.
It's Rails code under the hood. We do a little bit meta-programming but try to keep things as basic as possible exactly for this reason so we don't get in the way of the parent app.
We mitigated the "tiny stupid" mistakes like n+1 with dedicated includes option. The front-end is powered by Hotwire so a very small JS bundle.
We have a few customers that are running medium-to-large applications with Avo and they are quite happy with the results. I do admit they have started to do a bit of "magic" to support their use cases, but we're in contact with them and actively extracting things to make the developer experience better and support more use-cases. One example is the tabs and panels features that we're preparing to release next.
Yup. Boring is good. It just works!
Re: Show HN: Avo – Build Ruby on Rails apps faster
#18Hey! Minor bit of feedback on the homepage UI; I saw the pricing calculator and the big number wasn't obviously my savings (I assumed it was the cost). I'd make sure that for anyone scanning, it's clear the large $$ amount is savings vs the actual cost!
(Also, while I do think it's important you come off as cheap, I wouldn't lead with "saving money" as the main reason to use your product. It looks like you've built something really interesting, and you don't want early customers to only use you because they think you're the cheapest option!)
Overall, this looks really great... good luck!
Re: Show HN: Avo – Build Ruby on Rails apps faster
#19Hey HN, I'm Adrian, an indie developer and creator of Avo. For more than ten years, I built countless admin panels and back-offices for all types of apps. After a while, you start to notice patterns and extract functionality away to make the job easier. I took those patterns and applied them to Avo. Now, in just an hour, a developer can build production-ready applications that with traditional coding techniques take…
How does your offering compare to Jumpstart Rails ( https://jumpstartrails.com/ )? Are they competitors? If so, what are the pros/cons of Avo?
They are orthogonal tools. They blend together nicely. I use both on our infrastructure.
Jumpstart is an amazing starter kit (starter kit doesn't do it justice) that gives you accounts, billing, notifications, etc. and Avo takes it over and gives you the ability to build your admin panel/back-office fast AF. It's like you replace rails_admin from Jumpstart.
I've spoken with Chris Oliver and started work on adding Avo to Jumpstart and to have it as an alternative to rails_admin.
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#20We've been using Avo on my latest side project ( https://aoe4world.com ) and it has been great experience and Avo saved us a lot of time that we would otherwise spend on building admin interface. Highly recommended it.
Thank you for the kind words. I appreciate it!