[HN Gopher] NocoDB - Turn your SQL database into a Nocode platform
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NocoDB - Turn your SQL database into a Nocode platform
Author : sysadm1n
Score : 80 points
Date : 2021-11-10 16:19 UTC (6 hours ago)
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| dang wrote:
| Past threads:
|
| _Thank HN: A customer found us on Hacker News and wrote our
| first angel check_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28606258 - Sept 2021 (6
| comments)
|
| _Show HN: NocoDB - Open-Source Airtable Alternative_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27303783 - May 2021 (157
| comments)
| pier25 wrote:
| Does this work with CockroachDB?
| rnavi wrote:
| We're using knexjs to connect to databases. If knexjs generally
| works with your Cockroachdb. We should be able to work as well.
| Please reach out on our discord for any help.
| ramon wrote:
| Have you guys seen ToolJet? https://tooljet.io/
| 0x008 wrote:
| I think the product direction holds some real value.
|
| However, as a potential customer I do not know what this product
| can do from browsing the webpage for a short a mount of time.
| Hints like "Airtable alternative" is no use to me when I don't
| know what Airtable is good for.
|
| The Videos (as commented by other hn'ers are not really helpful
| in showing what's going on).
| transfire wrote:
| What exactly is it good for?
| orthoxerox wrote:
| Strongly typed multiplayer Excel.
| rnavi wrote:
| That is one good way to put it :)
| rnavi wrote:
| Spreadsheets has limits to number of rows/cells. And they tend
| to corrupt after certain limit easily. Then things like
| creating relation between sheets or deriving different views
| are not possible/easier in spreadsheet. This is when teams
| using spreadsheets start to move to databases. But it involves
| a lot of effort to build a spreadsheet like product on
| databases. This is where noco helps.
| thunderrabbit wrote:
| nocodb dev team was very generous for me when helping me evaluate
| their product for my use case, including creating a test
| environment to understand my request.
|
| I ended up not using them, but they created an issue for me on
| GitHub, saying my request was on their roadmap.
|
| https://github.com/nocodb/nocodb/issues/580
|
| Oh and they quickly researched a solution to an installation bug
| I was experiencing.
|
| https://github.com/nocodb/nocodb/issues/579
|
| TL;DR: great customer service from nocodb, so I'm happy to
| consider nocodb for future projects.
| rnavi wrote:
| Hey, happy to bump in here. I've added page designer to our
| immediate roadmap now.
| thunderrabbit wrote:
| That's great news! Thank you for the update, and nice work
| moving things forward. :-)
| petilon wrote:
| > https://github.com/nocodb/nocodb/issues/580
|
| What's a Page Designer? Do you mean forms for data entry? Or
| report pages (read-only data)?
| rnavi wrote:
| We support Forms.
|
| By page designer - its about custom reports from the data.
| mistermann wrote:
| Do you support custom layouts (including big text boxes for
| certain fields, or at least a pop up zoom), and embeddable
| subforms? Yes, I am basically looking for MS Access for the
| web, and I realize I'd have to give up A LOT, but certain
| things I just need (a gui for designing complicated forms
| is nice to have, but not necessary, but the layout is).
| carvking wrote:
| It looks very promising - but my experience with MSSQL hasn't
| been optimal.
|
| Definitely worth keeping an eye on this project.
| tailspin2019 wrote:
| I initially read that as "you don't like MSSQL" but I guess you
| mean using this tool _with_ MSSQL wasn't optimal?
| stareatgoats wrote:
| Assuming you are aware that NocoDB claims to support MySQL,
| Postgres, MariaDB, SQLite as well as SQL server, what was your
| suboptimal experience with MSSQL?
| rnavi wrote:
| What was the Microsoft SQL server version ? and the issue.
| thunderbong wrote:
| From the other comments, I haven't tried tooljet
| (https://tooljet.io) or budibase (https://budibase.com) but I did
| have a look at those apps.
|
| This, for me, was easiest to try out. And quite impressive,
| honestly.
|
| The key point was that in each table, the 'title' column (created
| by default) has a special meaning as they show up in the join
| columns cleanly.
|
| Amazing and congratulations.
| rnavi wrote:
| Thank you.
|
| In noco we've the concept of primary-value (like primary key)
| and that shows up automatically when you join with other tables
| (defaults to 'title'). However the primary value column can be
| changed to any other column too (by hovering on the column
| name).
|
| Other tools in the list do not give the smart-spreadsheet
| automatically when you connect to databases. And frankly, these
| are two different tools we are comparing.
| waxdotrun wrote:
| This has been my experience with internal tool builders too.
| The barrier to entry is quite high to try most of them and it's
| really hard to have a whole team test them out.
|
| This adoption issue was part of the inspiration for Wax [0]
| which lets you build internal tools on top of Google Sheets. If
| your team is already using Sheets, it's much easier to add the
| missing pieces there vs. pushing people to an entirely separate
| platform.
|
| 0 - https://www.wax.run/
| lessname wrote:
| What I do not like is that it tries to subscribe me to a
| newsletter on a self hosted app (you might not recognize the
| checkbox at the first look). And the google feedback form inside
| the app is quite weird. Besides from that it seems quite
| interesting, especially for non-coders.
| rnavi wrote:
| Thank you for the feedback. We will have it not selected from
| next release. Google form can be closed (right top x icon).
| colbyhub wrote:
| This is fantastic, especially as we see trends around owning your
| data. Tools like this allow us to migrate away from proprietary
| solutions like Airtable or Google Sheets.
|
| On the other hand, I could also see this being used as somewhat
| as an "Admin UI" for SaaS software administrators.
| rnavi wrote:
| Yes, it could be easily used as Admin UI. We create a virtual
| schema for every database that we connect to. If there are
| schema changes done outside noco GUI - then noco has a sync
| option that does automatically sync the changes.
| cabalamat wrote:
| The "how it works" section is just some short soundless YouTube
| videos that don't explain what is going on. I think they need to
| work harder on explaining their product.
| rnavi wrote:
| Thank you for the input, we will work on them.
| ramon wrote:
| How does this compare to Budibase? https://budibase.com/ Budibase
| seems to have a workflow engine as well.
| rnavi wrote:
| Please see here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29179953
| foxbee wrote:
| Budibase also has a more comprehensive UI builder, internal
| database, forms, configurable onboarding, free SSO, Kubernetes
| support, a cloud platform, off the top of my head.
| algo_trader wrote:
| Yeah, it looks packed with features!!! Self hosted,
| automations, hooks
|
| Can it scale to B2C number of users? Are there technical
| limitations that prevent this if we keep adding servers?
| rnavi wrote:
| (Founder here - glad to see the post)
|
| NocoDB[1] is a Free & Open Source Airtable alternative that
| transforms your own existing databases like
| MySQL/Postgres/MsSQL/SQLite into a smart-spreadsheet.
|
| Happy to answer any queries and you can also join our discord[2]
| for any help.
|
| [1] : https://github.com/nocodb/nocodb
|
| [2] : https://discord.gg/5RgZmkW
| ignoramous wrote:
| [3] _Show HN: NocoDB - Open-Source Airtable Alternative_ ,
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27303783
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