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I hated Airtable because it was proprietary system that I could not modify or host myself. Rowy doesn't seem like an improvement because it only connects to Goo
by evv 5y ago
I hated Airtable because it was proprietary system that I could not modify or host myself. Rowy doesn't seem like an improvement because it only connects to Google Firestore, a proprietary and centralized service.
Realistically I just want to use PostgreSQL and an open source UI on top, like NocoDB or Baserow.
But hey, maybe Rowy will be a cold glass of water for those stuck in Firebase hell.
- karanbhangui 5y agoWonder if Rowy could be modified to use Hasura[0], a realtime grahql front-end to Postgres [0] https://hasura.io https://hasura.io
- harinijan 5y agoWe are starting with GCP/Firestore ecosystem first and solving for all the painpoints in it but are definitely looking at other DBs down he line.
- mritchie712 5y agoyou might like Supabase https://supabase.io/ https://supabase.io/
- kiwicopple 5y agosupabase cofounder here - thanks for the shoutout. GP: to save you a click, we're an "open source firebase alternative" but it might be simpler to think of us as an easy way to use Postgres. We give you a full PG database for every project and auto-generated APIs using PostgREST [0]. We configure everything in your project so that it's easy to use Postgres Row Level Security. We provide a few additional services that you typically need when building a product - connection pooling (pgbouncer), object storage, authentication + user management, dashboards, reports, etc. You don't need to use all of these - you can just use us as a "DBaaS" too. [0] https://postgrest.org/ https://postgrest.org/
- harinijan 5y agoI love the last sentence :) Indeed we are trying to solve for users on Firebase and solve their pain points first.