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Show HN: Avo – Build Ruby on Rails apps faster

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Re: Show HN: Avo – Build Ruby on Rails apps faster

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Post by adrianthedev »

excid3 wrote: post #120
adrianthedev wrote: post #114

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, sure. They are tools that work together nicely. I use both on our infrastructure websites ( https://avohq.io ). Jumpstart is an amazing starter app that gives you accounts, billing, notifications, and others, and with Avo you can take over and build your admin panel/back-office fast! I've spoken with Chris Oliver and started work on adding Avo to Jumpstart and to have it as an alternative to rails_admin.

Yeah, Avo is a great alternative to the free admin we ship with (Administrate). And Jumpstart Pro customers get 20% off their first year of Avo. Thanks for sharing that discount Adrian!

Yeah, my bad there. Jumpstart ships with Administrate, not rails admin.

I'm humbled to have built something that could ship with Jumpstart. Thank you for the kind words!

Re: Show HN: Avo – Build Ruby on Rails apps faster

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Post by weaksauce »

excid3 wrote: post #120
adrianthedev wrote: post #114

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, sure. They are tools that work together nicely. I use both on our infrastructure websites ( https://avohq.io ). Jumpstart is an amazing starter app that gives you accounts, billing, notifications, and others, and with Avo you can take over and build your admin panel/back-office fast! I've spoken with Chris Oliver and started work on adding Avo to Jumpstart and to have it as an alternative to rails_admin.

Yeah, Avo is a great alternative to the free admin we ship with (Administrate). And Jumpstart Pro customers get 20% off their first year of Avo. Thanks for sharing that discount Adrian!

Is there a reason jumpstart runs on madmin and jumpstart pro runs on administrate?

Re: Show HN: Avo – Build Ruby on Rails apps faster

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Post by bradgessler »

It's great to see folks building frameworks on top of frameworks. I've started to look into full stack starter-kit frameworks that goes beyond the admin panel and here's what's out there these days.

* https://bullettrain.co - Opensource, $0/year

* https://jumpstartrails.com - Opencore, $249/year

* https://www.bootrails.com - Closed source, ~$83/year

I've even started to piece on together for my own projects at https://github.com/rocketshipio/monolith, which will be open source, $0, and MIT licensed.

Some of the libraries I'm noticing that seem "settled" include:

* Devise for authentication

* Pundit for authorization

I started to piece on together for my own projects at https://github.com/rocketshipio/monolith, which will be open source, $0, and MIT licensed.

I'm hoping enough people converge around any one of these products where we end up with something as high quality as Rails. If the community agrees on how users, authorization, subscriptions, etc. should be modeled, it opens up the door for a set of APIs and plugins that will make creating SaaS products even easier.

My thinking on the economics of this is the Opencore stuff will be a race to the bottom in terms of pricing towards free or a nominal fee (I guess $250/year is that). What will end up costing money is tech support. I do see an ecosystem of third-party services that integrate with SaaS kits emerging, such as rapid ways to deploy, analytics services, etc.

Re: Show HN: Avo – Build Ruby on Rails apps faster

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Post by danbee »

adrianthedev wrote: post #118
danbee wrote: post #116

This looks very similar to Administrate by thoughtbot https://github.com/thoughtbot/administrate

Yes, they do intersect in some areas as you can build CRUD UIs with both. Avo takes it further to give it a nicely designed UI, all the "missing" features like extending the interface, adding custom content, supporting all associations thoroughly and more. I think of it like the next iteration of these kinds of tools. Have you built something using administrate?

Yeah, I've used Administrate a bunch. All those things are possible in Administrate as it generates controllers that can be customized, so anything it doesn't do out of the box can be added easily. It's also easy to define custom input types and content types.

Re: Show HN: Avo – Build Ruby on Rails apps faster

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Post by boxed »

canadiantim wrote: post #11

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)

Look into iommi (https://docs.iommi.rocks). It does similar things imo.

Disclaimer: I'm one of the authors of iommi.

Re: Show HN: Avo – Build Ruby on Rails apps faster

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Post by boxed »

victor9000 wrote: post #91

Any similar back office projects written in python? I'd like to reuse some existing data access code and I'm currently looking at using django. So I'd love to hear if others have a better suggestion.

Try iommi (https://docs.iommi.rocks).

Disclaimer: I'm one of the authors.

Re: Show HN: Avo – Build Ruby on Rails apps faster

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Post by projektfu »

adrianthedev wrote: post #13
picardo wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Add an accent and you get grandparent (avó)
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