Looks great! I've never used Airtable so miss the comparisons. Is Plato like a faster to use version of Django admin? That's usually how I set up my admin UIs and one of the top reasons I use django.
- Virtual columns that track new data w/o modifying the DB (Great for ops)
- Virtual tables for saving new table views and hiding their implementation details
- Inline edits (Django requires click through to forms)
- More user-friendly queries (Subjective, but I remember filters in Django being tedious)
There's also some rough edges in Django Admin, like IIRC for foreign key select inputs they have to load every value into the frontend, which grinds to a halt for anything other than small databases.
I'd love to have you try it out and compare. Shoot us an email!
FWIW, virtual columns and tables are pretty easy in Django. AJAX-ify the forms seems to be possible but the packages tend to be pretty out of date.
Obviously you product has value for non Django teams, but tbh it's not clear to me this project is a win over django-admin for me (someone who reaches for that as my first tool to solve this problem). And some of the rough edges are not that big of an issue for me personally, not enough to add unknown risks w/ a new technology.
It does look great, however - hopefully this feedback is useful because I definitely don't mean to crap on your service.
Do you have a link or instructions on how to create virtual columns in Django Admin?
https://www.appsloveworld.com/django/100/228/add-calculated-...