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Re:Launch HN: Outerbase (YC W23) – A new UI and editor for y... by systems on Thursday March 16, 2023 @04:22PM (#35187909)
what is basedash, and what is "an admin panel", i visited their site and google for like 10 minutes and still no clue what this is

retool is a rad platfrom, i found it when i was looking for an MS lightswitch replacement, so its clear what it is

also outerbase is a bit strange, its a cloud db interface and the download link is for mac (not windows, mac) , the use cases seem very particular (niche) to me

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Re:Launch HN: Outerbase (YC W23) – A new UI and editor for y... by burcs on Thursday March 16, 2023 @04:45PM (#35188286)
Yeah we had a windows version as well, it was a bit buggy so we decided to launch without it.

I'm curious why does use case sound niche? We love to think that giving everyone access to data is a pretty big challenge to solve. Is it in our messaging or do you think the overall vision is off? Would love to understand how we could be more clear in what we are providing.

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Re:Launch HN: Outerbase (YC W23) – A new UI and editor for y... by systems on Thursday March 16, 2023 @04:57PM (#35188477)
the market is huge, different people need different things making a cloud app is not niche, the mac only client was a bit unusual

for internal apps, moving to the cloud is a big step for most places i worked in, its a huge step

I just find it striking, that its considered as a casual thing or the norm, nowadays

I think maybe you might want to explain on your site, why puting your internal db on the cloud is safe, easy ... and not a big deal

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