How good is it at recreating the DabbleDB demo? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wZmYMWKLkY
DabbleDB was way ahead of its time.
Baserow.io – Self-hosted Airtable alternative
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Re: Baserow.io – Self-hosted Airtable alternative
#42Open source is great. But it's hard for me welcoming something that is almost a 1:1 copy of a concept that somebody else worked on for many years.
Re: Baserow.io – Self-hosted Airtable alternative
#43There'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 work at a university, we are legally not allowed to host a lot of our data outside of our country. While I'd love to use tools like Airtable & Roam we can't. As those vendors aren't interested in hosting in a small backwater country like Australia an open source alternative I can host myself is amazing.
But I'd gladly pay more to have someone else manage hosting...
Re: Baserow.io – Self-hosted Airtable alternative
#44Open source is great. But it's hard for me welcoming something that is almost a 1:1 copy of a concept that somebody else worked on for many years.
You mean things like Linux, LibreOffice, Any browser?
The things that they are copying are themselves also copies of earlier products. Airtable can be traced back to MS Access, DBase and I'm sure there's even older examples.
Re: Baserow.io – Self-hosted Airtable alternative
#45FYI if anyone from baserow is reading this, I tried following your docs at https://baserow.io/docs/guides%2Fdemo-environment and can't clone your git repo -- I'm getting permission denied.
Once I looked up the HTTP url it worked fine, so I think you may have a permissions issue in gitlab.
Re: Baserow.io – Self-hosted Airtable alternative
#46If I use the self hosted software now, how to keep it up to date? Also if they start charging, how will it be different than AirTable? I get the privacy aspect of self hosted solutions but there is a huge overhead cost of maintaining it and updating it. I am not even sure self hosted is safer than SaaS.
It depends a little bit on how you are going self host it. There are updating instructions at the bottom of https://baserow.io/docs/guides/installation/install-on-ubunt... and https://baserow.io/docs/guides/installation/install-on-cloud... We are going to make it much easier to self host and update in the future.
You lost me when there wasn't a docker image. I'd strongly encourage having one that can be dropped into a docker-compose config.
Re: Baserow.io – Self-hosted Airtable alternative
#47How good is it at recreating the DabbleDB demo? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wZmYMWKLkY
Looks like Airtable took a lot of 'inspiration' from DabbleDB!
Re: Baserow.io – Self-hosted Airtable alternative
#48Open source is great. But it's hard for me welcoming something that is almost a 1:1 copy of a concept that somebody else worked on for many years.
You mean things like Linux, LibreOffice, Any browser? The things that they are copying are themselves also copies of earlier products. Airtable can be traced back to MS Access, DBase and I'm sure there's even older examples.
I just said I'm not welcoming it. But I also distinguish between copying in terms of implementing the same protocol/standard and copying an innovative product that is unique (or was unique when it came out). I don't think in this discussion there is a right or wrong but I think that if you put 10 years of thinking into a concept and another person just copies it it's just not fair.
Re: Baserow.io – Self-hosted Airtable alternative
#49There'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...
Re: Baserow.io – Self-hosted Airtable alternative
#50I will be using this, and dropping a lot of my paid AirTable bases...and let me please explain why.
Airtable makes it VERY hard to collaborate with people outside my organization. We are a team of 7 people. No longer a scrappy 1-person startup, but not an enterprise client by any-means.
If I want to add a single person to an Airtable base, that's $24 a month please. I have one client with 12 people that want to collaborate on the base by posting comments. I can't justify $288 a month just to keep the comments for all time.I contacted Airtable about this and was told the "Enterprise Plan" would be a perfect fit. Minimum $15k a year commitment.
Why is this happening in the SasS world??? Everyone seems to be either single Pro user, or Enterprise. Do they really think there is nothing in-between?