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by jimmyechan 3y ago
Give it a try! You can copy those scripts as-is into the workspace directory and with a few lines of code turn them into web apps.
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by jimmyechan 3y ago
Thanks! Yes, absolutely! All HN readers can try without booking a demo. Get an account here: https://docs.dropbase.io/setup/ and then follow instructions for local development setup here: https://docs.dropba
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by jimmyechan 3y ago
Flask and Django are web frameworks that are more geared towards general app development - you could build anything with them. Dropbase is an app builder that makes it easy to build certain kinds of app: internal apps used to support custom
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by jimmyechan 3y ago
Thanks! You’re spot on about our approach! Python, binding code files to UI, table+sidebar.
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by jimmyechan 3y ago
Thanks HN! Really appreciate your input! Gotta sign off now though, it's getting late for me. I might answer some more questions in the morning if this is still on!
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by jimmyechan 3y ago
Some context here is that our launch is mainly to developers. Other users can't even sign up from the website or use the product without self-hosting. In any case, we'd still need to post a link to Github, somewhere. If you'r
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by jimmyechan 3y ago
I'll check this one out - it looks very interesting!
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by jimmyechan 3y ago
I think I understand the irk, but I feel that your presumption of our intention in posting a GitHub URL is unfair. In fact, I'm not sure how else we'd share the news that you can self-host this without posting a Github link. We&#x
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by jimmyechan 3y ago
These are all great tools! The use cases we are going after different than those these tools make easy. One way we think about the difference is analytics vs operations. Another way is dashboarding (streamlit) vs triggering actions (dropbas
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by jimmyechan 3y ago
Yeah, the code is in a docker image, published on docker hub. It's prepackaged so it's easy to set up with docker-compose. The repo mostly has the docker files needed to self-host the dropbase worker and client. As you said, it&#x
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by jimmyechan 3y ago
We've heard of Tkinter before, but haven't really looked into it. We don't have a lot of experience with desktop apps and we're mostly unfamiliar with this space. But a few people have asked us about desktop, so we do a
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by jimmyechan 3y ago
Not yet, but will check it out! Thanks for sharing it
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by jimmyechan 3y ago
Thanks! We've heard something similar - many Python tools in financial services. I think they build tools on R too. We should probably try to reach out to people in this industry to learn about the kinds of apps they build and whether
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by jimmyechan 3y ago
> as AI turns more subject matter experts into programmers who can code a bit of python I also think there's a good number of people who have basic Python skills coming from data analytics and data science backgrounds, who might not
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by jimmyechan 3y ago
This is actually quite encouraging for us as product developers (although maybe it's not a good thing if end users don't get good tools). It just means there's a lot more room to grow. I wouldn't say we've given up
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by jimmyechan 3y ago
I can confirm all our engineers have seen this product before launching it lol. The comment you are referring to is most likely from a really old post. He was an intern at Dropbase a few years ago, back when we were working on a very differ
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by jimmyechan 3y ago
Absolutely, thanks!
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by jimmyechan 3y ago
What kind of apps were you building and what did you like most about building with the cgi module?
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by jimmyechan 3y ago
Also fun fact: originally we only intended to enable self-hosting for the Worker, but we ended up enabling self-hosting for the Client too. If we also end up enabling self-hosting for our backend API then we'd probably rethink our dist
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by jimmyechan 3y ago
We should have a Chrome extension that just summarizes the license for any Github repo you hang out at!
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by jimmyechan 3y ago
I hadn't heard of it, but I'm excited to check it out!
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by jimmyechan 3y ago
We should probably clarify that although we are pointing our post to our Github repo, it isn’t technically open source. It’s something we’d like to explore in the future with Dropbase though. At the moment, you can self-host our Client and
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by jimmyechan 3y ago
It's just how we try to narrow down the uses cases that the product would be better suited for. I'd love to come up with a better name for it. At the end of the day, I think we're all just different approaches to a similar pr
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by jimmyechan 3y ago
I think it requires a lot more UI components, more flexible layouts, and customization options to be able to build something externally facing. Building for end-users, especially on the consumer side, tends to require a lot of flexibility o
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by jimmyechan 3y ago
I'd say it's closer to the latter, unless you are already quite familiar with Django. Dropbase is a lighter framework with a more narrow use case, whereas Django is a much more powerful, complete, and you could practically build a
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Show HN: Dropbase – Build internal web apps with just Python(github.com)
207 points by jimmyechan 3y ago|114 comments
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Show HN: Dropbase – Internal tools builder for Python developers(github.com)
10 points by jimmyechan 3y ago|5 comments
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by jimmyechan 3y ago
Excited to make Dropbase available for local setup! It’s free for personal use. It’s still early so we're really excited get your feedback, especially on our approach to tools building. Dropbase lets Python developers build fullstack i
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OpenAI board are now in talks about Sam Altman's possible return(twitter.com)
16 points by jimmyechan 3y ago|0 comments
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by jimmyechan 3y ago
This is a fun idea! I've been trying it, but getting errors. Is it down?

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