DataSpeeder

> Come on, it's the last thing I want to show to a non dev, or even to a dev. phpMyAdmin's interface is so cluttered, and way harder in the eyes for anyone who just want to go through the data and not deal with every part of the database with knobs all over the place, it's like sitting in a cockpit.

Thanks for replying, because that's a good description for part of the motivation to build the tool, and it's nice to hear that others are of the same mind.

I've worked on many projects over the years and typically I've seen need for different tools at both ends ... the complex "cockpit" for the power-user, and then the easy front end for something simple.

Building all of time-consuming little custom web utilities were the inspiration for this product. I hope others like me will find it useful.

Thanks, I think that's placing me in the right ballpark and where I want to be. I had not heard of Kexi or Glom, so I'll look into them.

Thanks for the response, I'll look into Django and the Django community in more detail.

If you have any direct links to appropriate Django articles, communities, or tutorials to share, that would be great.

Thanks!

> Can you elaborate how this compares to some open source solutions, for example react-admin?

I would say that ...

React-Admin is a programming framework that a skilled React programmer can use to produce an application with great features that are limited only by the skills, drive, and dev time of the programmer. It looks like a very impressive and powerful programming framework to me.

DataSpeeder, on the other hand, is not a programming framework. It is a finished application that is ready to run immediately, can be deployed by a non-programmer, and has intentionally simple features that were designed to solve a specific problem ... Providing an instant end-user web GUI for MySQL.

To see the differences in how the tools are used, you can take a look at this (very nice!) React-Admin tutorial ...

https://marmelab.com/react-admin/Tutorial.html

And then take a look at the DataSpeeder "Create an Application" video tutorials ...

https://www.dataspeeder.com/support

I hope that helps!

I started using Firefox instead of IE way back when it was new, and (flirtations with Safari notwithstanding) I've never had a compelling reason to stop using it. So I'm still on board.

Also, I like the way the black title bar frames the application window. :)

Thanks for the help. I'm new to the forum, and I thought a sig might be useful, but I want to be a good citizen. I will remove it everywhere now. Thanks again!

(Update: Looks like I have no 'edit' option for posts that are not new. I won't be able to remove the link from all of them, but I'll do what I can!)

Thanks for that! I set out to make a simple solution to a real problem that I had experienced on a lot of web development projects. I hope it's useful to others as well.

I looked around for a long time for a similar tool -- open source or otherwise -- and I never found something exactly like what I had in my head. So I decided to built it myself.

I'd be very interested in hear about your "other different use-case" ... I'm very open to making enhancements and adding new features driven by specific user's needs. If you'd like to chat about what you're trying to build, please drop me a line and maybe we can make something happen!

Hi -- thanks for asking! I'm especially proud of that part of the application because it took a lot of effort to get right ... it was actually the most difficult part to design and implement. In the end, I'm very happy with the result.

You can see a video demo of configuring and using Data Relationships in "Create an Application (Part 3)" here ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQ_1FtwsB6A

Note: Links to videos "Part 1", "Part 2", and "Part 3" can be found at: https://www.dataspeeder.com/support

Does that help? If you had a more specific question about it, let me know and I'll try to elaborate (or simplify ;-).

Thanks for the kind words!

DataSpeeder is intended to give devs and db admins (who live in the world of power tools like PhpMyAdmin and MySQL Workbench) the ability to provide a simple web GUI for non-admin end-users to view/modify data. So it was intentionally designed without admin-level functionality like editing the database schema directly.

Thanks for the link to your tool, I will look into it.

Actually, one of the (many) features that I (with my coder hat on) would like to implement next is exposing the data via REST APIs. But I (with my manager hat on) need to focus on the specific features that users say are most needed for their deployments.

By the way, let me know if you see an organic way that our tools could work together and complement each other. Partnering would be cool!

Thanks again.

Thanks for letting me know! Hosted at GoDaddy.

I'll see if there's anything I can get them to do to fix it.

> Holy cow, I really like this. Super simple.

Thanks! You have no idea how nice that is to hear. Making something work is one thing, making it simple is another. A lot of effort went into designing it to be simple, so reading that, you've given me a lift. :)

> I think you need to adjust pricing to differentiate between big corporate users and small developers

Thanks for the pricing feedback, that's incredibly useful as well.

> I expect I'd run into roadblocks quickly without some customizability. The trick for you is to figure out how to add some of that without losing your main value prop, which is simplicity.

> In particular, I'm sure I would want to customize screens ... Also, consider supporting Postgres.

Great feedback. Moving forward anything is possible, but a lot is going to depend on this kind of great feedback. I need to focus on the new features that users need for their deployments. I'm hoping to learn what these valuable required enhancements are by engaging with the users who try out the tool.

"Screen customizing" would currently include being able to reorder fields, whether individual fields are visible or invisible and editable or read-only on the view/edit/create pages. Also whether the fields are visible as columns in the main display table, and whether those columns are sortable. And there's also the ability to choose appropriate editor widgets based on data type when appropriate (date-pickers, drop-down lists, and so on).

The "Create an Application" video tutorials on www.dataspeeder.com/support show a lot of these features.

Thanks again for taking the time to write!

Thanks for the kind words, and the feedback!

The idea here is that DataSpeeder enables the power user doing the db work to provide a simple web GUI for "non-admin" users who need to see some subset of the data in an easy way.

It's been my experience on projects over the years that there comes along a requirement to provide a simple view into a complex system.

All of those little custom web utilities were the inspiration for this product.

Rather than building a custom web app utility from scratch (because we're already too busy with day-to-day tasks and deadlines), DataSpeeder gives you a simple and easy end-user web GUI to the MySQL data that you can get up and running immediately.

Perhaps a scaled-down PhpMyAdmin deployment might get you there with some work and user-training, but DataSpeeder gets you something simple online very quickly ... Take a look at the "Create An Application" tutorial videos to see how fast it can be done: https://www.dataspeeder.com/support

Thanks again for the feedback!

Thanks for the links ... I'll take a look at popsql.com and see what they're about. Very impressive, and good for them!

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Thanks for the kind words! I've been building database client GUIs since the old Delphi days in the late 90s. There's so much about those RAD tools that I miss.

After many years of building custom web applications for employers and clients, I wanted to build a tool that does the regular (and always required) data entry parts of the application for you ... Instead of always having to start from scratch on each new project.

After many months of hard work, it's a pleasure to release DataSpeeder. Thanks again for the nice comment!

@DataSpeeder | www.dataspeeder.com