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Design your own database/no-code solutions ironically seem to appeal more to software developers than it does to end-users. Devs and tech-savvy-power-users are
by Mertax 6y ago
Design your own database/no-code solutions ironically seem to appeal more to software developers than it does to end-users. Devs and tech-savvy-power-users are looking for ways to automate app development. End-users are more likely to try to find the exact solution that targets their specific niche--not a design my own database/no-code solution.
This is not necessarily a bad thing, there is still a problem here to solve. The approach is likely in who you market to and understanding who your market is.
As much as you might think end-users are your market, they really aren't. Even if end-users are given the tools so they can design their own apps, a lot of them don't want to. They'd rather have IT do that for them.
IT on the other hand, would love to have things that makes it easier for them to automate quick CRUD apps for all the internal business operations that have to be dealt with, especially at enterprise levels.
This is why SalesForce and JIRA succeed and other too generic design your own database solutions targeted at end-users fail. As much as people love to hate SalesForce and JIRA for their enterprise-y ways they are making a lot of money doing what they're doing.
- utkarsh_apoorva 6y agoThis is fairly accurate. The no code revolution is a great happenstance for most techies who want to test ideas and run experiments. Bye bye boilerplate, until we meet again. On that note, is there a business intelligence tool for the no-code (or low code) world that just works? I want to visualise my database without having to type queries in terminal, and without using some clunky shit like metabase.
- nwsm 6y agoThis may be what you're looking for: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22548217 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22548217
- phonon 6y agoHave you tried Excel? Seriously, it can connect to DB really easily. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/add-a-query-to-an-excel-worksheet-power-query-ca69e0f0-3db1-4493-900c-6279bef08df4 https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/add-a-query-to-an... PowerBI is good too, as is Quicksight, and pretty cheap.
- arey_abhishek 6y agoCheck out Appsmith https://github.com/appsmithorg/appsmith https://github.com/appsmithorg/appsmith (I'm a co-founder). It's an open source low code product to build internal tools. The UI is flexible and we ship with charting, data grids, & forms. You can connect these to MySQL, Mongo or Postgres instances. There's an editor for writing queries and view responses. Any logic can be written in JS.
- benoror 6y agoWe believe that GraphQL would be more appealing as a middle-ground for devs who want to no-code. See https://www.baseql.com/ https://www.baseql.com/ (*Support for GSheets is on the roadmap!)
- searchableguy 6y agoInteresting. I have code sitting on my pc right now that does exactly this. I was planning to release it on GitHub but never got to it. Thought not many people would be interested. Mine is more general - works with most file formats at the cost of some work in describing relations and so on. Subscriptions, AOC and rate limiting built in.
- skellystudios 6y agoSo far, nearly all the people using us are non-technical people in “the business” rather than devs/IT. I think in the end there’s a nice balance that can exist. The more technical folks can set up the core data structures at the heart of a team, but anyone can add columns, create new filters or views.
- Mertax 6y agoHow much on boarding did you have to do manually? Have you found a way to scale this?
- skellystudios 6y agoMost people are self-serve! We’ve tried really hard to make this super easy to use – and we’re definitely standing on the shoulders of GSheets and Airtable