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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.

21Distinct people
41Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
41.2KGitHub stars
REPOSITORY AT A GLANCE

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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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Where it is used

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What people are saying

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 6:01:32 PM UTC.

No direct repository links were found in the indexed HN discussions over the past seven days. Older discussions are available below.

Mentions over time

HN mentions by year41 dated mentions

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

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC13211
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
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC404
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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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 alternative
Man, 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?

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