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Congratulations and welcome to the open source low code club:

Budibase https://github.com/Budibase/budibase

Appsmith https://github.com/appsmithorg

Tooljet https://github.com/ToolJet

Interesting tool. Happy to see it's Open Source. It would be nice to see better roadmap visualization.

FWIW, Budibase also has it's own multiplayer database that allows users to build workflows akin to Airtable.

I'm the cofounder of Budibase.

Keeping with that Apple design theme I see. I suppose it's also his style.

The turntable is beautiful but that price is insane.

If you're interested, there's a number of open source alternatives to Superblocks

Budibase. https://github.com/Budibase/budibase

Appsmith. https://github.com/appsmithorg

Tooljet https://github.com/ToolJet/ToolJet

And more (I'm sure others will comment)

Great timing. I was looking for a grab cursor yesterday! Cheers

This is awesome! Jost is a really nice font. Some css i like to add to my fonts to improve readability:

-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; font-variant-ligatures: contextual common-ligatures;

Give them a try and let me know if they help :-)

Credit to the React team. The docs prior to this were poor - I believe the team admitted this.

From the style of writing, to the style of site, I can tell a lot of effort was put into this. Will check out react this weekend - it's been a couple of years (we've been using svelte)

This is how i interpreted this. I feel this was a box ticking exercise with 0 emotion.

This looks very interesting. Who do you think is your target user? Why did you not decide to go down the open source route - not being critical, just curious.

Also retool, Budibase, glide and others

> The kids met their Pixar heroes and had a lightsaber duel with Chewbacca. Meanwhile, I was riding high on my own personal “spy-versus-spy” adventure the whole day.

It's critical to always have a secret mission on these occasions. Great, fun read!

This looks great. Your website is clean and informative - great work. Stripe is awesome but a self-hosted option fits our culture and philosophy a lot better. Will give it a blast when i get a chance.

"The STL library lacks support for some modern programming tools, for example, native co-routine support. As a result, developers must rely on many community projects, and most lack long-term support."

I couldn't agree more with this comment. As great as the community is, there's a lot of projects that are just not maintained. I wish this was different.

2nd this. Maybe, images with diff dimensions

I try to aim for education with empathy.

Hey. I'm happy to jump on a call to explain the model further:

joe at budibase dot com is my email if you want to reach out.

Other than that, our pricing is listed here: budibase.com/pricing/

- We'll see more and more features behind a paywall?

We'll continue to add features to the free/OSS tiers and the paid tiers. For example, we plan to release auditing in the next 2/3 months - that will be a paid feature. Our free/OSS tier is generous and provides a lot of value (SSO is in the free tier) - we plan to keep it this way.

FWIW in Budibase you can generate all the connectors if you have an openAPI spec

An alternative may be to use a low code platform like Budibase (I am the cofounder) which is designed to help IT teams build admin panels faster. It ships with its own DB (Couch) which should speed up the process!

it's open source too!

https://github.com/Budibase/budibase

Just a heads up - Budibase was always open source.

Budibase cofounder here.

How is Budibase a retool copycat? It's a completely different platform. I am sure David would acknowledge that Budibase was:

- first to have it's own internal db

- first to have it's own automations layer

- is code optional vs you have to write JS

- we do DnD differently

- Retool was first, imo, to focus on the term Internal tools

- Budibase is open source

When talking to customers/users we're compared more to other tools such as PowerApps and Airtable, rather than Retool. That being said, we overlap on a number of use cases with a slight different in who we are targeting.

Have you used budibase.com before making such a statement?

I've been waiting for this for months! Credit to the team. Looking forward to the weekend to play around with it. Also, super excited for svelte 4

Try Budibase. It should help you out

Out of curiosity, have you tried Budibase? I'm the co-founder and would be interested to hear your feedback if you've tried it.

Thanks for the feedback. I really appreciate it. You don't have to go through that flow. You can just use the docs and run it using digital ocean, docker, linode, kubernetes...

But! We are updating our onboarding to be quicker. In re to app perf, it's a little surprising. It's an area we don't get much neg feedback on so I'm happy you reported it. I'll feed this back to the team.

Fwiw Budibase has drag and drop now (released a couple of weeks ago)

Ahhh. We have a plugin repo now and there's a plugin for BigQuery:

https://github.com/marblekirby/budibase-big-query-plugin

Have you tried Budibase? For reference, I am the cofounder of Budibase and we're planning 2023 so I am super-eager for feedback.

https://github.com/Budibase/budibase

Cheers!

Hi all, founder at Budibase here (open source low-code platform). We've made a lot of progress over the past year (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29242478), and HN has played a pivot role in that progress - we certainly wouldn't be here without all of you!

After launching 1.0, we spent around a year making the platform more extensible - public API, custom components, new JS binding, and a lot more. This has went down well with the community and we've seen 50 new plugins get built in the last month.

Today, we have over 50,000 users, a growing community ~ 16k Github stars, and some great use cases. But we are still so far from changing how teams build internal tools and speed-up workflows. This new round of funding will help us continue with our mission and help teams connect and action their data easier. If you have any feedback, questions or ideas on how we can improve the product, please do let me know in the comments.

Joe