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

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Post by adrianthedev »

sandGorgon wrote: post #143
adrianthedev wrote: post #34

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Haha. Funny you should mention that. Me, together with my brother, built basetool, which should have been Avo but for TypeScript (framework agnostic). You give it a database URL and it will build the admin panel for you. Today was the day that I decided to sunset it, but you could try to use it with docker or compile it from source. https://basetool.io https://github.com/basetool-io/basetool

why dont you put it up on codecanyon as a theme sale ? you can still keep it open source...but this is quite good a tool. maybe you will discover the niche ?

That's not a bad idea. I'd do that if I didn't have to offer support. Are there products like that where after-sale support is optional?

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

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Post by sandGorgon »

adrianthedev wrote: post #161
sandGorgon wrote: post #143

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why dont you put it up on codecanyon as a theme sale ? you can still keep it open source...but this is quite good a tool. maybe you will discover the niche ?

That's not a bad idea. I'd do that if I didn't have to offer support. Are there products like that where after-sale support is optional?

actually most products the support is non existent. support has to be bought separately.

if people dont like something, they can of course refund

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

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Post by PhilipDaineko »

jressey wrote: post #57

This is a serious question: Do any of you folks get paid good money to start projects? In my career I have "started" projects for maybe 2-5% of my time. All of the real effort goes in to massaging the app to actually solve unique business problems, about 80-90% on edge cases. Bold and cynical claim: Making and selling apps like this is akin to building a social media brand about building social media brands. The prob…

> Do any of you folks get paid good money to start projects?

I would argue with this thesis. There is a whole market of templates: themeforest, wrapbootstrap, template monster, creative-tim, flatlogic (my company) and others.

Templates are solely used to start the project, so I would say that the market is large

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

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Post by kamikaz1k »

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)

It is true...I personally regret choosing Django for a project, just because I was more familiar with Python. Libraries are hard to find, and best practices are hard to uncover.

Rails to this day can't be beat, and I don't even ruby that much.

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

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Post by ttymck »

bradgessler wrote: post #123

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:…

Monolith looks awesome! I love the name -- I too am embracing and championing the "monolith-first" approach.

You've given me some inspiration for my own starter-kit built on FastAPI (trying to capture the magic of Django): https://github.com/tmkontra/fastapi-fullstack-boilerplate

I hope to follow along with your progress and perhaps share ideas/compare notes! Cheers.

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

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Post by picardo »

adrianthedev wrote: post #145
projektfu wrote: post #130

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Add an accent and you get grandparent (avó)

I have a hard time with english (mostly US) speaking people that pronounce it "aivo". It's actually like "avocado" "avo".

The creator of GIF file format spent years trying to get people to pronounce it JIF. You know, just saying... It didn't work.

Besides, EEEY-vo is more fun to say than UH-vo.

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

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Post by rtcoms »

adrianthedev wrote: post #74
mdw wrote: post #59

Very glad to see this, I’m currently building a SaaS with Rails and can totally use this for our admin panel.

One of our biggest supporters Equipe Technique are building a Shopify like platform ontop of Avo. It's not their admin, but the actual user interface, so go for it! Dream big!

Do you have any documentation for that about how to use this for non admin site ? That will actually make it a no-code platform.

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

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Post by adrianthedev »

picardo wrote: post #166
adrianthedev wrote: post #145

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I have a hard time with english (mostly US) speaking people that pronounce it "aivo". It's actually like "avocado" "avo".

The creator of GIF file format spent years trying to get people to pronounce it JIF. You know, just saying... It didn't work. Besides, EEEY-vo is more fun to say than UH-vo.

Haha. Your statement is 100% correct!

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

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Post by adrianthedev »

rtcoms wrote: post #167
adrianthedev wrote: post #74

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One of our biggest supporters Equipe Technique are building a Shopify like platform ontop of Avo. It's not their admin, but the actual user interface, so go for it! Dream big!

Do you have any documentation for that about how to use this for non admin site ? That will actually make it a no-code platform.

Not sure what documentation should I write about that. Just build it like I do in the videos or from the docs site and the result is the actual website . Done!

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

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Post by boxed »

jay3ss wrote: post #135
boxed wrote: post #127

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Look into iommi ( https://docs.iommi.rocks ). It does similar things imo. Disclaimer: I'm one of the authors of iommi.

This is really cool and I like the Tony Iommi take too. Did you pick the name because Iommi's accident and instrument align similarly with Django Reinhardt's?

Yes. And I'm a huge Black Sabbath fan so that lined up super nicely :P
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