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vinarunon Launch HN: Bracket (YC W22) – Two-Way Sync Between Salesforce and Postgres

Yeah agreed! We were surprised to hear how deeply bundled Heroku Connect is in their Enterprise plan. Reps not knowing about heroku connect coupled with their abandoned roadmap make us excited to build a better solution

vinarunon Ask HN: Is there something like Kafka connect but for Airtable?

this is actually answered on the airtable community forum

https://community.airtable.com/t5/development-apis/feature-r...

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There are limitations by notion on what can be viewed to thousands of records, but you can use a query to pull a filtered view of data in Notion. It's not just a 1:1 mapping but changes in Notion will persist through data in the database that is joined

It's really a way for teams such as customer service who may have their CS ops in Notion to view & change customer data in your data store without adding to an engineer's backlog

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looks like it's working now!

vinarunon How LatAm Tech Is Replacing Retool with Google Sheets and Notion

https://usebracket.com

vinarunon I asked ChatGPT to explain why SVB stock is crashing

yeah you're right. Is a few weeks the true lag time for chatGPT?

vinarunon Congress makes moves against Chinese tech

U.S. SENATORS WARNER AND THUNE TO ANNOUNCE BILL ON TUESDAY "THAT WILL COMPREHENSIVELY ADDRESS THE ONGOING THREAT POSED BY TECHNOLOGY FROM FOREIGN ADVERSARIES, SUCH AS TIKTOK" -STATEMENT

vinarunon Square to no longer return processing fees when buyers are issued a refund

it was only a matter of time given that Stripe has a penalty too

vinarunon Two-way syncs across your data stack and SaaS tools

#2. https://zapier.com #3. https://airbyte.com #4. https://usebracket.com

vinarunon Make G-Sheets a UI for your MongoDB

https://usebracket.com in case you're interested!

vinarunon Bracket: Turn G-Sheets into a UI for your database / warehouse

Great question!

1. We sync as fast as every minute, whereas airbyte syncs at least every hour. This makes the Google Sheet a way less useful read/write tool, and can also lead to a ton of merge conflicts if you're trying to set up a two-way sync.

2. On that note: Bracket is built for two-way syncing, with handling for merge conflicts built in. That way, you're in control of which source wins race conditions.

3. We have field level controls. For example, some data in the google sheet can be read-only while others are read & write

4. It's at least twice the work (often more!) to set up and manage two pipelines instead of one -- almost like having one email address for sending emails and another for receiving them

5. Airbyte does not support transformations for G Sheets currently, whereas with Bracket you can write a SQL query to transform your data from Postgres to Sheets