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appsmith
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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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41Mentions
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41.2KGitHub stars
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Platform to build admin panels, internal tools, and dashboards. Integrates with 25+ databases and any API.

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Observed mentions: 2020-07-31 06:53:09 UTC to 2024-12-06 06:08:46 UTC.

0510152020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 13 mentions; 2 submissions, 11 comments20202021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 16 mentions; 0 submissions, 16 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 7 mentions; 0 submissions, 7 comments20222023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 0 submissions, 4 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2024

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20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC16016
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC707
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What Hacker News says

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That'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 platform
Appsmith 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
In Show HN: Budibase – An open-source low code platform
Hi HN! I’m Arpit, a co-founder of Appsmith (https://www.appsmith.com) along with Abhishek and Nikhil. Appsmith is an open source project to build simple CRUD apps, custom admin panels, and complex internal tools. Some users call it a low-code product, but we think of it more like a framework. We launched our project 13 months ago and since then have seen 7.1K GitHub stars and 100+ contributors. Today we announced our seed and Series A funding. I started building Appsmith in 2019 because I’m a backend developer and I was tired of dealing with React, HTML, CSS for CRUD applications. Frontend development has become incredibly complicated and this is my attempt to simplify it for at least this kind of software. While Appsmith is empowering if you are a backend developer because it gives you a skill that you don't necessarily want to learn, i
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t’s incredibly useful for any dev looking to create webapps really quickly. You can create pages visually and write JS for any customizations or data transformations. If I have to describe Appsmith apps, I’d say that we provide the view and controller layer in MVC, while you bring the model layer. This means that your data is never stored within Appsmith. Appsmith ships with 35 react components, 14 datasource integrations (including an API connector, user roles, user authentication, Git sync, real-time collaboration, JS and more). You can self-host us for free or use our cloud edition. Future open source roadmap includes: 1. More widgets and integrations 2. Custom theming 3. Ability to use any JS library 4. Add any custom react component 5. Integration with Lambda to enable non-UI workflows You can use our open source edition or cloud hosted edition for free today. We’ll be introducing a pricing plan for our cloud hosted edition as well as an enterprise edition in 2022. Future commercial and enterprise edition roadmap includes: 1. Integration into more SSO providers 2. Audit logs 3. Granular role based access control Link to our GitHub repo: https://github.com/appsmithorg/appsmith Happy to answer any questions!
In Appsmith raises $8M to take on the internal app market with open source code
Here's a few companies built only on no-code/low-code products: 1. Makerpad 2. Lambda school 3. Ondeck There are a lot of consulting services exclusively focused on building for Outsystems, Mendix, Webflow, Bubble, Zapier, Wix.com, IBM Apex, Appsheet, and Shopify platforms. The number of entrepreneurs building on low code/no code platforms probably runs into hundred of thousands. Maybe even more if you count the consulting businesses built for the Salesforce Lightning platform. I run an open source low code platform to build internal apps called Appsmith[0]. We know dozens of consulting companies who've built Appsmith apps for their clients. I bet every fast growing low code/no code product has small businesses built on it because the tech consulting market is just so huge. [0]https://github.com/appsmithorg/appsmith
In Ask HN: Anyone built a business with no-code tools?
Pretty cool project to build in 7 weeks! Congratulations! Your lockdown has been way more productive than for some of us. I'm a founder of Appsmith, which Tooljet mentions in the GitHub project as an inspiration. https://github.com/appsmithorg/appsmith We are an Apache 2.0 licensed internal apps builder that's being used by teams in Adobe, IBM, MSFT, Rappi, Swiggy, and 1000's of other companies. Difference vs. other projects mentioned here: 1. Community edition is free for unlimited users 2. Great developer experience(local development, debugging, & Git sync is coming soon) 3. Pricing model will be usage based and not user based
In Show HN: Open-source alternative to Retool, Internal.io, etc.
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In Ask HN: Best low-/no-code solution for simple web-based database frontends

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