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Re:Ask HN: What are you surprised isn’t being worked on more? by Tobias42 on Monday December 28, 2020 @04:47PM (#25563616)
I recently thought about this, too. Is there any cloud-based, simple relational database, aimed at non-programmers?
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Re:Ask HN: What are you surprised isn’t being worked on more? by jugg1es on Monday December 28, 2020 @04:52PM (#25563668)
Microsoft Access is a database aimed at non-programmers. I'm not really sure why you would care if it's cloud-based or not if you aren't a programmer though. You could have Access save your database file to One Drive or something. Access also integrates with SQL Server and you can probably get a free tier one on Azure.
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Re:Ask HN: What are you surprised isn’t being worked on more? by chaostheory on Monday December 28, 2020 @11:44PM (#25566830)
Microsoft is aiming to replace it with their easy to use Power App platform. Plenty of people and companies are working on this problem
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Re:Ask HN: What are you surprised isn’t being worked on more? by jodrellblank on Monday December 28, 2020 @06:56PM (#25564860)
Excel, web version.

( https://www.google.com/search?q=%22excel+database%22 )

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Re:Ask HN: What are you surprised isn’t being worked on more? by kylewatson on Monday December 28, 2020 @05:01PM (#25563743)
QuickBase and Knack are along those lines.

A long time ago I used QuickBase. It was like a Google sheets before google sheets and you could couple multiple sheets together, relating them.

It has probably come a long way since then, but ironically, I can't get past the marketing ui of the website to see how it really works.

Fucking marketing people love to hide the product behind bullshit.

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Re:Ask HN: What are you surprised isn’t being worked on more? by joubert on Monday December 28, 2020 @05:49PM (#25564207)
Interesting. What do you envision non-programmers would do with it?
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Re:Ask HN: What are you surprised isn’t being worked on more? by uses on Monday December 28, 2020 @06:00PM (#25564319)
Airtable
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Re:Ask HN: What are you surprised isn’t being worked on more? by johnorourke on Monday December 28, 2020 @05:49PM (#25564209)
Airbase.
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