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Re:Rowy: Open-source Airtable alternative on Google Cloud by evv on Tuesday October 05, 2021 @11:59AM (#28761239)
I hated Airtable because it was proprietary system that I could not modify or host myself. Rowy doesn't seem like an improvement because it only connects to Google Firestore, a proprietary and centralized service.

Realistically I just want to use PostgreSQL and an open source UI on top, like NocoDB or Baserow.

But hey, maybe Rowy will be a cold glass of water for those stuck in Firebase hell.

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Re:Rowy: Open-source Airtable alternative on Google Cloud by karanbhangui on Tuesday October 05, 2021 @12:08PM (#28761359)
Wonder if Rowy could be modified to use Hasura[0], a realtime grahql front-end to Postgres

[0] https://hasura.io

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Re:Rowy: Open-source Airtable alternative on Google Cloud by harinijan on Tuesday October 05, 2021 @12:13PM (#28761435)
We are starting with GCP/Firestore ecosystem first and solving for all the painpoints in it but are definitely looking at other DBs down he line.
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Re:Rowy: Open-source Airtable alternative on Google Cloud by harinijan on Tuesday October 05, 2021 @07:46PM (#28767238)
I love the last sentence :) Indeed we are trying to solve for users on Firebase and solve their pain points first.
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Re:Rowy: Open-source Airtable alternative on Google Cloud by mritchie712 on Tuesday October 05, 2021 @12:37PM (#28761799)
you might like Supabase

https://supabase.io/

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Re:Rowy: Open-source Airtable alternative on Google Cloud by kiwicopple on Tuesday October 05, 2021 @01:01PM (#28762146)
supabase cofounder here - thanks for the shoutout.

GP: to save you a click, we're an "open source firebase alternative" but it might be simpler to think of us as an easy way to use Postgres.

We give you a full PG database for every project and auto-generated APIs using PostgREST [0]. We configure everything in your project so that it's easy to use Postgres Row Level Security.

We provide a few additional services that you typically need when building a product - connection pooling (pgbouncer), object storage, authentication + user management, dashboards, reports, etc. You don't need to use all of these - you can just use us as a "DBaaS" too.

[0] https://postgrest.org/

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