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I can see this as an amazing teaching aid too. You can take away all the learning about tech stacks and platforms and various languages and server config etc. f

I can see this as an amazing teaching aid too. You can take away all the learning about tech stacks and platforms and various languages and server config etc. for a while and concentrate on developing the idea and developing a process. Edit: My son is going to love this when he gets home! It seems good enough that you could push the prototype live as an MVP. I am interested if you grow to something to the stage where you want to move off this and onto something more customised, do you have access to be able to properly migrate the DB somewhere else?

meredydd 9y ago
No kidding! We were at PyCon UK this weekend, and we had an 8-year-old girl building database-driven web apps in an afternoon: https://twitter.com/anvil_works/status/924648315983155200 https://twitter.com/anvil_works/status/924648315983155200 As to your second point - yes, that's a common pattern. We see people going "oh, let me just sketch out the UI...well, I'll add a bit of code...oh, look, it's in production and scaling!" We do have a lot of support for integrating with external systems, so it's easy to gradually move off from (or on to) Anvil. External access to the database is just the start of it :)
20years 9y ago
Using this as a teaching platform was my first reaction too. I don't think I would use it for anything production though without an option to export the app (database & source for my app). I would pay the listed monthly subscription fees in a heartbeat. That is a no brainer for the time this appears to save but I have learned the hard way too many times in the past on being locked into a platform for business crucial stuff. I would be fine even paying a one-time fee of few hundred dollars to be able to export my app if I need to. Simply for the peace of mind of not being locked in if something happens.

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I can see this as an amazing teaching aid too. You can take away all the learning about tech stacks and platforms and various languages and server config etc. f

by jimnotgym 9y ago

meredydd 9y ago
No kidding! We were at PyCon UK this weekend, and we had an 8-year-old girl building database-driven web apps in an afternoon: https://twitter.com/anvil_works/status/924648315983155200 https://twitter.com/anvil_works/status/924648315983155200 As to your second point - yes, that's a common pattern. We see people going "oh, let me just sketch out the UI...well, I'll add a bit of code...oh, look, it's in production and scaling!" We do have a lot of support for integrating with external systems, so it's easy to gradually move off from (or on to) Anvil. External access to the database is just the start of it :)
20years 9y ago
Using this as a teaching platform was my first reaction too. I don't think I would use it for anything production though without an option to export the app (database & source for my app). I would pay the listed monthly subscription fees in a heartbeat. That is a no brainer for the time this appears to save but I have learned the hard way too many times in the past on being locked into a platform for business crucial stuff. I would be fine even paying a one-time fee of few hundred dollars to be able to export my app if I need to. Simply for the peace of mind of not being locked in if something happens.