Ask HN: What is the best enterprise software you use every day?

Re:Ask HN: What is the best enterprise software you use ever... by kristopolous on Friday July 17, 2020 @12:36AM (#23867085)

I've tried not to be impressed by airtable, but their on the fly API documentation generators for how you configure things still feels like black magic.

Every time I want to be dismissive of the product, it's exceeded what I believed to be an extremely unlikely to meet set of expectations.

They've clearly got some pretty competent people. I'd love to draft them somehow

Beyond that, the services of namecheap Ava digital ocean. They clearly have developers who rely on the product. All the elements are there and they work well.

Azure's python libraries I find way easier than AWS's boto3, which for some reason always reminds me of dbus programming. I keep meaning to try Google's bud I haven't yet.

I also have been meaning to write one that somehow transparently uses things like rsync/scp with some partitioning strategy so you can migrate say a personal project costing you $50/month, generating you $0 and used by only a few dozen people to potentially a lot less.

(I've got numerous large scale efforts that almost nobody uses...)

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Re:Ask HN: What is the best enterprise software you use ever... by petercooper on Friday July 17, 2020 @11:31AM (#23871599)

Airtable also gets my vote, but not having webhooks or even a way to delete an entire base's set of items really grinds my gears as the workarounds are so inelegant (currently I have a script that deletes several thousand rows in batches which works well but seems inane).

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Re:Ask HN: What is the best enterprise software you use ever... by newspheasant on Friday July 17, 2020 @12:41PM (#23872444)

What do you use Airtable for? I use it for personal projects and tasks but don’t have any idea of the uses for enterprise.

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Re:Ask HN: What is the best enterprise software you use ever... by gregjotau on Saturday July 18, 2020 @06:57PM (#23885532)

Not sure if you would call this "enterprise", but for fammesportswear.com, we use Airtable for documenting sample tests, custom system for return handling, maintaining list of suppliers etc.

One issue for us with Google form is that file uploads cannot be done by non-google accounts, this works well in Airtable.

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Re:Ask HN: What is the best enterprise software you use ever... by iamwil on Friday July 17, 2020 @12:41AM (#23867113)

what is an on the fly API documentation generator? Is it that you say what your lang and stack is and they tailor the documentation to just the lang and stack you're using?

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Re:Ask HN: What is the best enterprise software you use ever... by kristopolous on Friday July 17, 2020 @02:48AM (#23867845)

No. The English text contains paragraphs of text that describe the relationships and interactions of the user configured data model. It's all machine driven. The examples pull from your actual data. It's not just dumb basic stuff I'm referring to.

I'll see if I can get a screenshot later

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Re:Ask HN: What is the best enterprise software you use ever... by hiyer on Friday July 17, 2020 @01:18AM (#23867291)

Airtable generates basic REST APIs for CRUD operations based on your database schema. Perhaps that's what OP is referring to.

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Re:Ask HN: What is the best enterprise software you use ever... by rochak on Friday July 17, 2020 @03:48AM (#23868209)

That sounds about right and even makes sense. I would really like to work on something like that, maybe even open source.

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