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appsmith
TypeScript2020–2024
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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Also in these discussions

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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, 5:05:26 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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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
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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One 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
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