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Post by vinarun » Mon, Apr 03, 2023, 6:47 PM UTC

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Post by MuffinFlavored » Mon, Apr 03, 2023, 7:41 PM UTC

What is visual/interactive performance like? I'm guessing (without having used it yet) it's not possible to accidentally try to list 1,000,00 rows in the Notion HTML/JS/CSS UI and crash your browser?

Some questions aloud from my brain while I try to research the answers:

Is the data syncing done with PUB/SUB or some kind of "cron-like" job (so the data can be out of sync for like, up to 5 minutes between database -> notion?)

Is the data pulled fresh from the database anytime the Notion page is loaded? I don't think so.

Could you create a table in Notion that is actually powered by a really complex query backed by Postgres instead of manually having to map all of the fields as 1:1 columns database -> UI? I'd imagine there's a market for that, maybe? Is there? Does this already exist and I'm just not aware of it?

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Post by MuffinFlavored » Mon, Apr 03, 2023, 7:48 PM UTC

looks like it is using https://www.usebracket.com/pricing which I found from your "about" here https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=vinarun so it's kind of like self-promotion, which is fine? i am just pretty sure the vibe here on hackernews is you should be upfront on who you are in relation to the product/why you are posting it instead of being like "look what i randomly stumbled upon with no affiliation"

not that i care, just for others

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Post by nullsub » Tue, Apr 04, 2023, 9:11 AM UTC

is this the right URL for Portal?

https://withportal.dev/

I'm getting a DNS lookup error

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Post by vinarun » Tue, Apr 04, 2023, 5:30 PM UTC

nullsub wrote: post #4

is this the right URL for Portal? https://withportal.dev/ I'm getting a DNS lookup error

looks like it's working now!

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Post by vinarun » Tue, Apr 04, 2023, 5:32 PM UTC

MuffinFlavored wrote: post #2

What is visual/interactive performance like? I'm guessing (without having used it yet) it's not possible to accidentally try to list 1,000,00 rows in the Notion HTML/JS/CSS UI and crash your browser? Some questions aloud from my brain while I try to research the answers: Is the data syncing done with PUB/SUB or some kind of "cron-like" job (so the data can be out of sync for like, up to 5 minutes between database ->…

There are limitations by notion on what can be viewed to thousands of records, but you can use a query to pull a filtered view of data in Notion. It's not just a 1:1 mapping but changes in Notion will persist through data in the database that is joined

It's really a way for teams such as customer service who may have their CS ops in Notion to view & change customer data in your data store without adding to an engineer's backlog