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Re:I made a all-in-one web app to help me with my freelance ... by Brian_K_White on Monday October 09, 2023 @08:06AM (#37819557)
It's 1977 all over again. Before the next 40 years of canned application software happened, filePro and other self-serve app development systems of the time were just a database with thin skin of ui in the form of input screen designer and output print designer.

As a dentist or whatever, you just define some fields that matter to you. And that actually was enough to do most of the job anyone really needed doing.

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Re:I made a all-in-one web app to help me with my freelance ... by makestuff on Monday October 09, 2023 @12:22PM (#37821996)
Next unicorn will just be a UI wrapper ontop of a postgres instance.
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Re:I made a all-in-one web app to help me with my freelance ... by n_cusan on Monday October 09, 2023 @04:06PM (#37824821)
Something like this https://retool.com/
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Re:I made a all-in-one web app to help me with my freelance ... by makestuff on Monday October 09, 2023 @04:48PM (#37825313)
Yeah that is basically what I was describing. I guess it wasn't as unique of idea as I thought.
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