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Re:Designing Synced Blocks by tylersmith on Saturday July 17, 2021 @09:29PM (#27870133)
I'm using Notion as the DB for a simple jobs site with a static frontend and it's been really nice. Super easy to use CRUD interface out of the box and it's easy to rapidly iterate on data models.

Normally I approach these kinds of projects with a well planned out data structure and proper migrations but the velocity in getting something usable out the door and getting people to use it as been well worth the shortcut. I hope Notion leans into this use case.

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Re:Designing Synced Blocks by vaughan on Sunday July 18, 2021 @07:31AM (#27872128)
> well planned out data structure and proper migrations

Schema design is a process of discovery and code-first approaches become too sticky to change.

I think we need to head back to the ease of MS Access for data modeling and migrations should be automated.

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