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Re: Show HN: I made an app that consolidated 18 apps (doc, sheet, form, site, chat…)

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Post by Mertax »

sgarland wrote: post #131
winrid wrote: post #126

Earlier quoted context omitted.

He's most likely using SQLite per account, because that's the easiest way to have an offline DB and sync it, which will most likely scale perfectly fine with appropriate indexes as long as you are careful about the feature set.

That introduces a new problem when it syncs to others in the same workspace, if it’s large.

Nice thing about SQLite is you can “clone” the repository by copying a single file. And in cases where you need incremental sync, you can use an SQLite of diff’s as a single packfile (similar to git).

Things like cr-SQLite also have a lot of potential to make single SQLite per client a lot more viable. But I’m interested to see what you think the problems are? Have you found a solution or alternative?

Re: Show HN: I made an app that consolidated 18 apps (doc, sheet, form, site, chat…)

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Post by joenot443 »

harrisonlo wrote: post #221
yoz wrote: post #129

Initial impression after a few minutes of use: there may be a huge amount of power here, but the app and site seem to be completely lacking guidance and I've no idea what to do or how to learn. I've installed it on my Mac and am trying to add a set of records representing contacts with a couple of basic fields: name, phone, birthdate. I want to query those records elsewhere in other modules. The app is giving no guid…

Noted on the lack of guidance and onboarding. I can see the confusion you had with the board module and have some ideas on improving it. Thanks for giving it a try.

Piggybacking to say I really like GP's suggestion of a living demo the user can jump right into after onboarding. I'm working on a similarly open-ended product right now and I've been thinking hard on ways to avoid the daunting "what now?" feeling of being presented with a big, unfamiliar, blank canvas.

Re: Show HN: I made an app that consolidated 18 apps (doc, sheet, form, site, chat…)

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Post by pelagicAustral »

Got an account... Seems pretty good, I've been using Monday for a while but I think it's too convoluted, potentially way too much for my needs. This looks clean, cross-platform just works, pricing is fair and the features are pretty good.

Re: Show HN: I made an app that consolidated 18 apps (doc, sheet, form, site, chat…)

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Post by HenryBemis »

harrisonlo wrote: post #234
HenryBemis wrote: post #231

Any chance you can add a link to download for Windows but NOT on MS Store? I (and perhaps many others) have the bridges to the mothership torn down, so not MS Store.

Can you elaborate? Are you not able to access MS store for some reason?

Yes. I have been using the Windows Firewall Control (bought a license around v4.x)(before it was sold off and became free - and worse at v5) and have been using it in all my Win machines.

I play hard ball, use "allow" approach (block everything except Outlook, FF, and a few more apps). I have also used plenty of Win10 privacy tools and have cut all paths to MS. I use "WuMgr" and/or "WAU Manager" for some very few security updates.

And also regarding the Store, I have uninstalled all (if memory serves well) the "default/stock" modern/Win10 apps (I am using an older version of Calculator, the XP version of MS Paint, and so on). I've used SysInternals and killed all auto-tasks, most services, etc.

I like me OS the way Steve Gibson describes it. Boot it and that's it.

Re: Show HN: I made an app that consolidated 18 apps (doc, sheet, form, site, chat…)

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Post by indymike »

valty wrote: post #190
sgarland wrote: post #108

Single biggest thing you need to nail down fast: the data model. It is extremely hard to shift as things grow, and without careful thought, it’ll turn into a horrifying miasma of JSONB columns, duplicated data, orphaned rows, and garbage performance. Customers are going to store surprisingly large items in Docs, where you’d be tempted to inline them instead of offloading to S3 et al. Chat practically needs to be its…

The problem with modern development is having to nail down the data model first. I wish we would develop software where the data model could easily change. To do this every data dependency in the system needs to traceable. Nothing does this so far. And everyone just picks a database off the shelf but none are even remotely useful for this.

> The problem with modern development is having to nail down the data model first.

Schemaless was one of the original drivers for NoSQL databases.

Now, when I need something schemaless, I start with a Postgres table with an ID and a jsonb or json field... which at least makes it easy to have a schema when the inevitable happens and schema-dependent code ends up getting added to the project.

> To do this every data dependency in the system needs to traceable.

This is a hard problem.

Re: Show HN: I made an app that consolidated 18 apps (doc, sheet, form, site, chat…)

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Post by rnotaro »

chime wrote: post #39

Great job on the launch. Your pricing is reasonable for small biz, but I'm unclear on what "Email" in https://nino.app/pricing means. Does that mean you offer email hosting like Outlook/Gmail or email support? For anyone not in the 365 corporate world looking for office apps, you're unfortunately competing with https://workspace.google.com/pricing , regardless of the unique feature set you offer. For anyone looking f…

Unrelated but I didn't knew Google AppSheet[1] existed before seeing it on that pricing page. Interesting.

>The fastest way to build apps and automate work

>With Google AppSheet, you can build powerful solutions that simplify work. No coding required.

[1] https://about.appsheet.com/home/

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