basetool

i want exactly the opposite - something that does not try to be a spreadsheet, but gives me a grid view of a database table, with concurrent edits a la google sheets, and lets me access the same data from my webapp backend. i have been searching for this for literally years, all the time maintaining an app as a google sheets script, because much as i would prefer something self-hosted and customisable, that collaborative grid view is the ideal user interface from my users' point of view. so far nothing has fit the bill - basetool (https://github.com/basetool-io/basetool) might have but it's discontinued and underdocumented, and i'm not really a web developer so i don't feel up to the challenge of getting it running and integrated into an app. grist actually came really close from a ui perspective, but it was too focused on being a spreads

Haha. Funny you should mention that. Me, together with my brother, built basetool, which should have been Avo but for TypeScript (framework agnostic). You give it a database URL and it will build the admin panel for you. Today was the day that I decided to sunset it, but you could try to use it with docker or compile it from source. https://basetool.io https://github.com/basetool-io/basetool