After trying it out, this is unabashedly a clone of Airtable, but I couldn't find any apps/add-ons (yet?). To me, the apps, automations, and ability to create custom apps are what make Airtable so powerful. I did see mention of support for third-party plugins on the info site, but not when I tested it out; too early I guess.
Baserow.io – Self-hosted Airtable alternative
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Re: Baserow.io – Self-hosted Airtable alternative
#132There's an interesting trend of open source clones of popular products. Most recent one that comes to mind is Athens [0] which is an open source clone of Roam Research. The business model is always that people who really want it for free can self host, and people who don't want to deal with the hassle will pay for hosting. Seems like a reasonable strategy to me. [0] https://github.com/athensresearch/athens
I think it's a smart way to make money with open-source projects. Charge for hosting and premium add-ons. For me Gatsby comes to mind. The framework will always be free but they have a build, CI and hosting platform that makes it easy. And i don't mind paying money for.
Plus, some occasional free development from PRs.
The number of times where I would be HAPPY to work on a project for free to fix an issue or add a feature I want - I couldn't count.
Instead, it's always reaching out to support and "Thanks for your feature request - it's not currently on our road map, but I've added it to our list."
Re: Baserow.io – Self-hosted Airtable alternative
#133There's an interesting trend of open source clones of popular products. Most recent one that comes to mind is Athens [0] which is an open source clone of Roam Research. The business model is always that people who really want it for free can self host, and people who don't want to deal with the hassle will pay for hosting. Seems like a reasonable strategy to me. [0] https://github.com/athensresearch/athens
I wonder if there’s a business model of paid hosting of other companies open source alternatives...
That sounds like Bitnami - https://bitnami.com . For example - https://bitnami.com/stack/redmine
Re: Baserow.io – Self-hosted Airtable alternative
#134I am so excited for this software. I have used Airtable extensively, and it's a pile of garbage. Here are just a FEW of the "features" Airtable charges $24/user/mo for: - Reliable 1-5 hours a month of downtime. There are months where it's literally 1 nine of uptime. Their status page was actually down for a while (I think they forgot to renew it?) - Simple and obvious bugs in the official API clients have not been fi…
Try force.com (fully featured developer account is free with limits), very stable and fully featured PaaS with long tail of features. On a quick review Airtable as a slick/modern UX on less sound architecture than force.com, probably shipping features in a breakneck pace.
Re: Baserow.io – Self-hosted Airtable alternative
#135Something that would be really cool is if there was an open source - self hosted version of notion.so. I like notion because it’s a hybrid of wiki, table/database, calendar, kanban. You can do a lot more than just tables.
This sounds a lot like getoutline.com
Re: Baserow.io – Self-hosted Airtable alternative
#136There's an interesting trend of open source clones of popular products. Most recent one that comes to mind is Athens [0] which is an open source clone of Roam Research. The business model is always that people who really want it for free can self host, and people who don't want to deal with the hassle will pay for hosting. Seems like a reasonable strategy to me. [0] https://github.com/athensresearch/athens
anyone know of a GitHub list of open source clones of popular products?
This is kind of close to that: https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted
Re: Baserow.io – Self-hosted Airtable alternative
#137I am so excited for this software. I have used Airtable extensively, and it's a pile of garbage. Here are just a FEW of the "features" Airtable charges $24/user/mo for: - Reliable 1-5 hours a month of downtime. There are months where it's literally 1 nine of uptime. Their status page was actually down for a while (I think they forgot to renew it?) - Simple and obvious bugs in the official API clients have not been fi…
> - Booleans in the API are `true` or `undefined`. Seriously.
But why???
Re: Baserow.io – Self-hosted Airtable alternative
#138There's an interesting trend of open source clones of popular products. Most recent one that comes to mind is Athens [0] which is an open source clone of Roam Research. The business model is always that people who really want it for free can self host, and people who don't want to deal with the hassle will pay for hosting. Seems like a reasonable strategy to me. [0] https://github.com/athensresearch/athens
Hey! Founder of Athens here, we just launched on HN 2 weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26316793
Agree with your comment. What we've found is that most people don't actually want to self-host, even technical users who can. But they all want the optionality to self-host, which you don't have with most SaaS's like Notion or Roam. This is doubley important for "second brains", apps where you brain dump your closest thoughts.
As Balaji has said, given the choice, "you'd always pick open source over a comparable proprietary equivalent."
Re: Baserow.io – Self-hosted Airtable alternative
#139Looks great. I suggest you get rid of the decimal point and two decimals in the pricing so it’s simpler to understand, especially for people outside Europe that use commas in numbers differently. €4 per user / month is much easier to read and understand for most people than € 4,00 per user / month The comma made it look a bit odd and like €400 initially when I glanced at it and it just seems like an unnecessary level…
A perfect use case for Number.prototype.toLocaleString.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
Re: Baserow.io – Self-hosted Airtable alternative
#140Hello everyone, I am Bram Wiepjes, the founder of Baserow. Baserow is an open source, soon to be open core, no-code database tool and Airtable alternative. Easily create your own relational database in a user friendly way without technical experience. - Unlimited rows. - Released under the MIT license. - Uses popular frameworks like Django and Vue.js. - Uses PostgreSQL as database backend. - It can be self hosted. -…
"Eerly premium"
FYI, a pretty big typo on the front page.