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I see a lot of comments about people who are worried that Google might shutdown the service entirely and I agree with your concerns. The last months we have see
by bram2w 6y ago
I see a lot of comments about people who are worried that Google might shutdown the service entirely and I agree with your concerns. The last months we have seen a lot of giants building their own database spreadsheet like hybrid, Google Tables, Microsoft Lists and Amazon Honeycode. Tools like these contain your most important data and you want to have freedom, security and independence as they can be an important part of your business.
Because of these reasons I started Baserow (https://baserow.io https://baserow.io), which is an open source (https://gitlab.com/bramw/baserow https://gitlab.com/bramw/baserow) alternative to Airtable and the listed tools above. It is still in an early phase, but every week new features are implemented.
Some unique points:
- Unlimited rows.
- Open source, released under the MIT license.
- Uses popular frameworks like Django and Nuxt.js
- Uses PostgreSQL as database backend.
- It can be self hosted.
- You can have many rows per table, 100k+.
- Headless and API first.
- Supports plugins.
- datasert 6y agoYour website design looks very nice. What css/ui framework did you make use of it?
- bram2w 6y agoThanks! It does not use a css/ui framework. It is something I designed and build from scratch.
- lioeters 6y agoI believe they didn't use any CSS framework, it's handrolled Sass styles (other than Normalize and Font Awesome). https://gitlab.com/bramw/baserow/-/tree/develop/web-frontend/modules/core/assets/scss https://gitlab.com/bramw/baserow/-/tree/develop/web-frontend... They do use Nuxt, a fullstack framework for Vue.js, which is style-agnostic. https://nuxtjs.org/ https://nuxtjs.org/
- _mkef 6y agoAnyway to generate types ( like I define Box, I get a Box object ) for something like a node SDK. Strapi does this,
- AntonyGarand 6y agoSeatable[0] is another alternative which is mostly open source, following a licensing similar to MongoDB for their server if I recall correctly. They're now on version 1.3, not sure if they're fully stable yet but it's a viable self-hosted alternative. [0] https://seatable.io/ https://seatable.io/
- heavyset_go 6y agoThis is pretty cool, thanks!
- airstrike 6y agoAmazing work. This may be a very obvious question, but just to be clear, does the github repo offer the same as the hosted SaaS version? Meaning can I host this internally and play around with it as a proof-of-concept at work?
- bram2w 6y agoYes you can! The open source version offers the same functionality as the SaaS version. If you have Docker installed on your computer you can follow the demo environment tutorial at https://baserow.io/docs/guides/demo-environment https://baserow.io/docs/guides/demo-environment to test out a copy locally.
- airstrike 6y agoGreat, thanks! Will definitely have to give it a whirl when I free some time on my schedule