Show HN: Fieldbook – Create a database as easily as a spreadsheet

Greetings fellow devs! I'm the CTO of Fieldbook, happy to talk about anything. We use a node backend stack, with mongodb, and a backbone based front end. We use socketio for realtime and rabbit for some back end messaging.

I'm also one of the authors of RecordStream which has been discussed on here before (https://github.com/benbernard/RecordStream). I see Fieldbook as an extension of RecordStream but for the web instead of JSON records on the command line.

I'm in the beta, and the product is actually pretty useful. I've never been a fan of complicated spreadsheets. Plus, spreadsheets are 2-dimensional, in a sense. Fieldbook gets rid of several such limitations. You are free to do what you want with your data without having to write SQL queries or macros. The interface also is cleverly intuitive.

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Well, I had a hard time trying to get the feel of linking sheets. In the video it looks easier.

I don't know how it could be improved, but maybe it will be too difficult for common people (not that I am smarter than common people, I am dumb, if you could see the mess I did in my sheets here right now).

Wow. Awesome tool. Thank you for advancing the fight against the single-purpose idiot CRUD app that sells for a lot of money.

If it could run locally and sync data in and out of Excel spreadsheets it would be a miracle, but since it can't it is only good.