There are a few free packages (Active Admin, administrate, rails admin) built a few years ago that can help you build a CRUD UI, but the conversations I had with developers is that they are a bit annoyed with them.

I built Avo as a modern alternative learning from the past products and improving on them.

I think it makes total sense for client work and almost no sense for startups

Why do you say that? Start-ups by definition need to move fast and test out hypothesis. With a tool like Avo you could prototype something, get it out to your customers and get feedback fast.

The secodn use-case is internal tooling. When I worked at a start-up we had a lot of "shady" internal tools built fast, crappy and unreliable (because it's just an internal tool) and we always had issues working with them.

I build a lot of internal tooling using Avo and the process is quite painless.

ActiveAdmin gets the job done well enough in my opinion. Not nearly as slick as Avo though.

Yeah, for sure! This post, or Avo's existence is not about bashing other tools.

Each project has it's own requirements and budget.

Thank you for your message!