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Re:Firetable – Spreadsheet-like UI for Firestore by hardwaresofton on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @02:05AM (#24636096)
For those who aren't necessarily familiar with "Firestore" (I'd heard of Firebase but didn't know what Firestore was): https://firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

> Use our flexible, scalable NoSQL cloud database [called Firestore] to store and sync data for client- and server-side development.

Getting back to what the actual post was about, my first instinct is to find out a way to replace Firebase/Firestore as a dependency of Firetable though -- does anyone know of any API-compatible replacements for Firebase with pluggable backends (minio[0] is to S3 as <something> is to Firebase/Firestore).

I also... kind of think this might be good tech to spin a whole SaaS out of. It'd be unthinkable to try and compete with Airtable if I had to build their frontend but... hosting a database, giving access to shared/private instances of firetable, and trying to out-maneuver (or just undercut) airtable seems like it might not be a completely fool's errand.

[0]: https://min.io/

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Re:Firetable – Spreadsheet-like UI for Firestore by shams95 on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @02:39AM (#24636238)
Shams, the creator here. We built the MVP using Firestore but support for other DBs are on the roadmap.
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Re:Firetable – Spreadsheet-like UI for Firestore by hardwaresofton on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @04:39AM (#24636732)
Just want to say thanks for open sourcing this, there is an immense amount of value in here, surprised no one at Antler wanted to productize this!
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Re:Firetable – Spreadsheet-like UI for Firestore by tzury on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @04:02AM (#24636570)
should you exclude files such as https://github.com/AntlerVC/firetable/blob/master/www/.env.e... from the repo?
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Re:Firetable – Spreadsheet-like UI for Firestore by anaganisk on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @05:33AM (#24636957)
Its encrypted
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Re:Firetable – Spreadsheet-like UI for Firestore by andig on Saturday October 03, 2020 @08:34AM (#24671583)
Really great to have something that feels a lot like Airtable open source. If I had a wish I'd say decouple the database layer instead of providing support for more databases. Let the community help build abstractions and that way also open Firetable for non-public or embedded data stores/ data bases.
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Re:Firetable – Spreadsheet-like UI for Firestore by phemartin on Friday October 02, 2020 @08:05AM (#24661750)
This is amazing! I'd suggest keeping focusing on Firestore until PMF and than expand to other dbs.
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Re:Firetable – Spreadsheet-like UI for Firestore by random_savv on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @02:24AM (#24636178)
CouchDB: its APIs are not a 1-1 match but it feels the closest in spirit. Would love to know if there is another one.
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Re:Firetable – Spreadsheet-like UI for Firestore by hardwaresofton on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @04:40AM (#24636745)
It definitely might be the closest in spirit, but if the idea is just read and write documents in a document store, there is a lot of value in extracting the interface and allowing for multiple implementations.

I am an expert yak shaver, so it would have probably been one of the first things on my mind.

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