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I did something similar, but instead of building out a whole app I just insert data into a Postgres database directly. It turns out if you know SQL, you don’t n
by xwdv 3y ago
I did something similar, but instead of building out a whole app I just insert data into a Postgres database directly. It turns out if you know SQL, you don’t need any kind of frontend really to manage your business. Coming up with new features is as simple as building out new views or writing functions on the fly.
- anon1094 3y agoThis sounds like it would be an interesting blog post.
- Brian_K_White 3y agoIt's 1977 all over again. Before the next 40 years of canned application software happened, filePro and other self-serve app development systems of the time were just a database with thin skin of ui in the form of input screen designer and output print designer. As a dentist or whatever, you just define some fields that matter to you. And that actually was enough to do most of the job anyone really needed doing.
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- jpc0 3y agoTo be fair this is 90% of most apps that any business needs. A view into a database. I would like to agree with the other commentor asking for a blog post write-up on this. I would love to see which software stack you like building up for this.
- xwdv 3y agoThe software stack is: SSH. Postgres on Amazon RDS.
- llimos 3y agoMS Access might be the thing for this. Not used it in decades but loved it back then. Best of both worlds as long as it's for a single user.
- antaviana 3y agoAs long as you never forget the WHERE clause for the DELETE statements, that sounds fine.
- xwdv 3y agoEven if you forget, you can just rollback to a snapshot.