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Re:Show HN: Airforms – never build another CRUD app on Wednesday October 26, 2022 @04:20PM (#33348848)
This is for access control. If your company uses Active Directory then when when you remove an employee from your Active Directory his access will be automatically removed.

If your company does not use Active Directory you can create a Microsoft account using your existing email (even gmail works). Or you can create a new @outlook.com account.

Re:Show HN: Airforms – never build another CRUD app on Wednesday October 26, 2022 @12:55AM (#33339989)
There are big differences between the feature sets of Airforms and those apps. I would encourage you to take a closer look at our product!
Re:Show HN: Airforms – never build another CRUD app on Tuesday October 25, 2022 @10:18PM (#33338950)
What you really want to see is a reputable VC (preferably from Sand Hill Road) backing the company. That might be coming in the future, but for now we are doing well without VCs.
Re:Show HN: Airforms – never build another CRUD app on Tuesday October 25, 2022 @09:55PM (#33338786)
Currently we require a Microsoft account. What is your preferred way to login? We are open to adding additional ways to log in.
Re:Show HN: Airforms – never build another CRUD app on Tuesday October 25, 2022 @09:38PM (#33338652)
> solid evidence it will be here in 5 years

Fair point. However, note that there is no guarantee that a product or service from Google [1] or Microsoft [2] will be there in 5 years.

[1] https://killedbygoogle.com/

[2] https://killedbymicrosoft.info/

Re:Show HN: Airforms – never build another CRUD app on Tuesday October 25, 2022 @09:27PM (#33338561)
> What does it do uniquely well?

Building forms on top of relational databases.

There are plenty of no-code tools out there, but not many that can build traditional forms for your own database + schema.

Re:Show HN: Airforms – never build another CRUD app on Tuesday October 25, 2022 @05:31PM (#33336441)
You are right, 3rd party APIs are not supported. Only SQL databases are supported.
Re:Show HN: Airforms – never build another CRUD app on Tuesday October 25, 2022 @04:00PM (#33335390)
Thanks for your feedback. We'll introduce an in-between plan to solve this problem.
Re:Show HN: Airforms – never build another CRUD app on Tuesday October 25, 2022 @03:28PM (#33335046)
Thanks for your feedback. What would be more reasonable, in your opinion?
Re:Show HN: Airforms – never build another CRUD app on Tuesday October 25, 2022 @01:32PM (#33333654)
Good feedback! In the beginning we expect early adopters will be technology enthusiasts, so the marketing text is oriented towards them. Later, as the mainstream begins to adopt the product we plan to adjust the text accordingly.
Re:Show HN: Airforms – never build another CRUD app on Tuesday October 25, 2022 @01:30PM (#33333622)
To handle errors Airforms supports extensive validation options.

Regarding show/hide based on field value -- this is accomplished via "rules", where you build conditions graphically. This is not enabled in the current build, but is coming in November.

Common types of form fields such as radio, checkbox, textbox, textarea, combobox, date and so on are supported.

Please contact us via the email address at the bottom of the web site if you would like to discuss your specific scenarios.

Show HN: Airforms – never build another CRUD app

https://airforms.com/

Airforms is a database form builder. You can lower software development costs by using Airforms instead of developing custom CRUD applications to enter and update data. Airforms lets you build forms using a simple drag-and-drop interface. No coding skills needed.Airforms was built from the ground up to support relational databases. Joins and lookups, and query parameters including multi-valued...

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Re:An everything app is terrible for liberal democracy on Monday October 10, 2022 @11:36AM (#33152731)
Those aren't everything apps, those are everything platforms. You can barely do anything (other than browsing the web) with Windows alone, with no apps installed.
Re:An everything app is terrible for liberal democracy on Monday October 10, 2022 @11:32AM (#33152691)
That's startup 101. Twitter is not a startup.
Re:HHS purchases $290M worth of drugs for nuclear emergencies on Tuesday October 04, 2022 @08:10PM (#33089094)
> Probably China and India are the only parties now able to influence Putin to back down.

The problem is, if Putin loses the war, he will lose power, and possibly even his life [1]. This makes him more likely to use nukes, as his life is endangered without a victory. Under this circumstance the only way out is to give him a "small victory".

[1] https://www.cnn.com/videos/tv/2022/09/30/exp-gps-1002-khodor...