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A while back Microsoft announced Microsoft Lists, which is a similar tool. Of course there are also existing tools like Airtable, Bubble, Mendix etc. All these
by bram2w 6y ago
A while back Microsoft announced Microsoft Lists, which is a similar tool. Of course there are also existing tools like Airtable, Bubble, Mendix etc. All these tools are great, but they have some downsides in my opinion.
- If the product ever gets discontinued you might lose all your work.
- All these tools have limits regarding the amount of rows you can store.
- If your business depends on such a product and the pricing model changes, it might bankrupt you.
- You can't create or download real plugin that integrate well if you are missing features.
- In most cases you can't host it at your own servers.
- You might end up in a vendor lock-in.
These are some of the reasons why I started Baserow. It is an open source alternative to Airtable and in the far future also for tools like Bubble. While it is still in an early phase there is a test version at https://baserow.io https://baserow.io that everyone can try. In the coming weeks you can expect the open source release. Right now, I am finishing up the documentation, examples, plugin boilerplate and some final small changes. After that you can self host it without any limits, vendor lock-in or price changes.
- lukeramsden 6y agoWow, that looks great. An COSS alternative is exactly what this space needs. I wish you great success.
- bram2w 6y agoThanks! I agree, was surprised to learn that there aren't that many good open source no-code tools out there.
- zubairq 6y agoI couldn't find the source code, where is it on github?
- bram2w 6y agoThe open source release will probably happen within 3 weeks from now. It is an early test version that is running on baserow.io, but this is for trying it out only. I still need to write documentation, an openapi spec, a plugin boilerplate and some other small things. When that is finished I will make the code available publicly.