ROrobertwt7·Dec 6, 2024
airbnb, retool, sentry, datadog, snowflake..
refine: https://github.com/refinedev/refine
appsmith: https://github.com/appsmithorg/appsmith
there are heaps what are you talking about!
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appsmithorg / appsmith
appsmith
Platform to build admin panels, internal tools, and dashboards. Integrates with 25+ databases and any API.
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41.2KGitHub stars
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What it is
Platform to build admin panels, internal tools, and dashboards. Integrates with 25+ databases and any API.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 13 | 2 | 11 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 16 | 0 | 16 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 7 | 0 | 7 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
What Hacker News says
41 sourcesOne spot where your readme misses the mark: it can't be read outside of github (or some rendering engine). Markdown is supposed to be human readable. Instead you say "here's how app smith works" and then plop a big image. That doesn't help anybody understand what your project does by reading the readme. Images and diagrams are super helpful, but they should accompany thoughtful prose. This is also important as an accessibility consideration.
Next, contributors sections are dumb. Github is a better tool to use to view contributors (https://github.com/appsmithorg/appsmith/graphs/contributors). Other projects before github would have an authors and/or contributors file. I don't care about the contributors when I'm trying to understand how your project works, it's just shameless marketing in that position.
Finally, you have a "getting started
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in 100 seconds" image CTA in your features section. Doesn't make any sense to me and again there's no supporting text.
Overall I'd suggest focusing on improving your readme to be more useful and less of a marketing tool (it can still market its value lightly) and instead explain how the software works and how to get up and running with it.
Overall I'd score your readme 4/10.
Edit: here's a readme to compare/contrast with https://github.com/Lxtharia/minegrub-theme
> https://github.com/appsmithorg/appsmith
That is more of a GitHub landing page than a readme.
> An effective README file needs to tell your audience what your project does, how to use it, and how they can help out.
The readme starts with an `a` image tag nested within a `p`.
In How to write a great READMEI would love to use Appsmith and pay-by-usage, but I’m blocked by not being able to SSH tunnel into MySQL.
Anyone with this same issue, please upvote!
https://github.com/appsmithorg/appsmith/issues/518
In Our Shift to Usage-Based Pricing* https://github.com/excalidraw/excalidraw
* https://github.com/calcom/cal.com
* https://github.com/supabase/supabase
* https://github.com/appwrite/appwrite
* https://github.com/n8n-io/n8n
* https://github.com/appsmithorg/appsmith
* https://github.com/directus/directus
* https://github.com/Budibase/budibase
In Ask HN: What are the best open source TypeScript projects I can learn from?I am looking for a low-code system where I could easily add code for custom business logic (on the backend) when needed. Most of these systems seem well-suited to reading data, but don't seem suitable to writing it for non-trivial use cases.
pocketbase.io has some hooks for when data is saved, but currently only supports SQLite as a backend.
Directus seems to have some custom validation ability.
All these systems don't seem to have a way to add custom validation logic:
https://appwrite.io/docs/getting-started-for-web
https://github.com/appsmithorg/appsmith
https://docs.openblocks.dev/build-apps/event-handlers#compon...
https://docs.budibase.com/docs/contextual-bindings
https://docs.tooljet.com/docs/contributing-guide/setup/archi...
In APITable: open-source Airtable alternativeMaybe appsmith? https://github.com/appsmithorg/appsmith
In Ask HN: Tool to generate a simple web form from SQLSuperblocks is based on AppSmith (Apache 2.0)
https://github.com/appsmithorg/appsmith
open-source developers beware
In Superblocks Announces $37m FundingAppSmith (https://github.com/appsmithorg/appsmith) is good one as well.
In Show HN: Extensible OSS Retool AlternativeMan, given all the comments suggesting frameworks that will require you to do html/css/js it seems like no one has really read your post.
For your use case I would look at AppSmith (https://github.com/appsmithorg/appsmith) or ToolJet (https://github.com/ToolJet/ToolJet).
These are full-stack low-code frameworks, but it's easy to use them to do just the frontend and connect to a backend API you implement yourself separately.
Edit: forgot to mention that these support drag&drop for building user interfaces :)
In Ask HN: What's is your go to toolset for simple front end development?I wanted to love Appsmith but I kept running into telemetry code, including a hard coded segment id baked right into the base docker image. Sorry, but I can't defend your business needs during security review.
For example:
https://github.com/appsmithorg/appsmith/blob/8edb278b755cc5f...
In Code vs. No-codeAppsmith was recommended last year.
https://github.com/appsmithorg/appsmith
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26657803#26658546 Ask HN: Best low-/no-code solution for simple web-based database frontends
In Spreadsheets Are Hot–and Cranking Out Complex CodeThat's cool. Have known the founder and liked their product and seemed relevant hence suggested.
Do check out Appsmith (https://github.com/appsmithorg/appsmith), I work here and we're an open source low code framework for building internal applications. We haven't really thought about the accounting use case, but now that you mention it, it could be super interesting (we've ofcourse had a lot of users building for HR, IT, Sales & Marketing use cases, other than the support).
Btw, on an unrelated note, I'm Kashmiri too :)
In Show HN: Budibase – An open-source low code platformAppsmith founder here. Congratulations on launching Budibase! I think it's a beautiful product.
Like MJshanks mentioned, there's some overlap in the usecases but there are significant differences in the platform direction. Budibase is more no-code, while Appsmith is geared towards developers aiming to build complex applications.
Appsmith is a more popular and mature tool with high quality documentation, video tutorials and stellar community support. The GitHub stars, issue list, and size of Discord community reflect this. [0]
1. According to users who've tried both, Appsmith's UX is simpler and enables building information dense UI. Appsmith has drag and drop to build absolute UI vs. relative positioning in Budibase. This does make Budibase apps more mobile responsive than Appsmith ones. Links to comments by other HN users [1] [2]
2. App
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smith is a more powerful platform with a high ceiling and low floor for entry. You can build simple apps quickly by auto-generating them. In Appsmith, you can write full-fledged JavaScript anywhere on the platform. This ensures all your business logic is always expressed correctly. You can map over data, merge data from different data sources, trigger conditional workflows, and conditionally control widget properties all with a few snippets of code.
Few more feature differences:
1. Appsmith has more UI components and support for 100+ charts
2. Built in git sync for version control
3. Real-time commenting and real-time editing(WIP) to enable collaboration between users
4. Appsmith has organizations/workspaces to help freelancers manage multiple projects
5. Error logger and linter to debug issues
Honestly at a more fundamental level, it's just great to see all the different products that have come out over the years that are trying to tackle the same problem space. When we started out initially, we didn't find any open-source alternatives (Budibase wasn't open source then), and so we embarked on building it. And now it's great to see so many different products, which gives users more choice and power over finding the platform that fits their needs best.
[0] https://github.com/appsmithorg/appsmith
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28991242
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28304152
Agreed. We need to improve a lot on the mobile, we've had our hands full with desktop browsers. About the unfixed iOS issue, was it an issue about the tabs widget on Safari? https://github.com/appsmithorg/appsmith/issues/3835
If not, could you tell me more so that I can create an issue.
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