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Re:tldraw SDK 4.0 on Friday September 19, 2025 @06:59AM (#45300211)
I just signed up to the tldraw cloud and lost all the files from browser storage :'(
Re:Bad Experience with NoCoDB on Thursday February 20, 2025 @06:44AM (#43113570)
If you are facing an issue with an oss product - submit an issue in the repo and get it sorted pls
Re:ClickHouse Data Modeling for Postgres Users on Thursday September 12, 2024 @02:01AM (#41517992)
Adding to above, CH should take ownership of CH airbyte connector. There are so so many users waiting for it. Have a look at that issue/discussion in airbyte github repo.
Re:ClickHouse Data Modeling for Postgres Users on Thursday September 12, 2024 @01:58AM (#41517983)
Love everything about CH. However, we were at wits end syncing things to it from postgres. Airbyte was a let down with no normalisation (they had it but removed it). Meltano was seamless but with no ui. However, we have had issues with it as well. Peerdb is a welcome addition - will give it a go soon.
Excellent point.
Make real tdraw is just amazing. Love it.
Re:Show HN: Visual DB – Web front end for your database on Wednesday September 11, 2024 @04:44AM (#41509389)
Thank you for taking time out of your holiday and writing this.

2) If you create the tables from noco interface you get those fields else not as these fields are abstracted fields on top of your DB fields. 3) not sure what you mean here - noco is known for abstracting these IDs away and are hidden as system fields (see field menu). The role of lookup etc is what you need.

1 & 4 are feature requests pending on us.

Re:Show HN: Visual DB – Web front end for your database on Tuesday September 10, 2024 @04:16PM (#41505049)
Congrats to visualdb on launch.

If you are looking for free open source version try

https://github.com/nocodb/nocodb

It's fairly simple to setup. Please refer to our readme/docs

Disclaimer: founder here.

Re:Ask HN: Looking for kids books about famous people on Thursday August 15, 2024 @05:09PM (#41260386)
Was about to mention this.

Its remarkable how kids (4 yo) relate to some facts in these books (like discoveries, slogans, values) and then recall the page/book when they hear a word two in totally unrelated conversations.

Re:CockroachDB License Change on Thursday August 15, 2024 @05:02PM (#41260334)
Amidst the frequent noise - its hard to notice that even the most stringent of OSS licenses like AGPL was written way back in 2002! Cloud was not even in the picture. Since then, ever growing cloud players have been playing the 'state' role and misusing OSS as 'religion' heavily affecting infra OSS products or companies.
.. and how does it fare with devin/cognition etc - have not tried them just youtube videos.
Long ago, I was a system developer. Now I think of it - I feel the whole development / logs / debugging / deploying was all abysmally slow. To even load software via JTAG took about 5 minutes! So there is big room to improve things in this space.

Do you have clients using this now ? how are you thinking to land inside semiconductor-ish corporates ?

Re:Show HN: Webhooks for Any Event on Friday May 31, 2024 @02:06AM (#40531969)
On landing page - sample webhook responses would help.
Re:Show HN: ChatGPT UI for Rabbit Holes on Friday May 31, 2024 @01:50AM (#40531902)
Follow up questions generated with the answer is easy picking. Much like Google (traditional search) does. To spice it up, there can be a slider using which - questions would change. The axis of slider itself can be an interesting one eg: simple to advanced. It will depend on the topic being discussed.
Re:Ask HN: Simple MySQL admin tool that can import CSV? on Friday September 01, 2023 @01:31AM (#37347170)
NocoDB does connect to external database - below is how you do it. And it does allow to import csv.

https://docs.nocodb.com/setup-and-usages/dashboard#connectin...

(Founder here)

Re:Undb – open-source airtable alternative on Tuesday June 20, 2023 @03:47PM (#36409479)
Noco Founder here

We just managed to handle all date time and timezone issues which is quite complicated and made a release like a month ago. When we started, we could not have anticipated the difficulties surrounding timezone issues. So we will be getting to Calendar view soon.

Re:Show HN: Plato – Airtable for your SQL database on Wednesday March 08, 2023 @05:45PM (#35075832)
Founder of Noco here - have left the differences here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35075827
Re:Show HN: Plato – Airtable for your SQL database on Wednesday March 08, 2023 @05:45PM (#35075827)
Founder of Noco here - Congrats on your HN launch.

I see at the current state there is a massive difference between us and the initial launch of Plato.

We do support multiple databases and there are backlinks available with actual value in a spreadsheet cell (I see that isnt supported in Plato's links). By reading about virtual columns I felt its like a formula column but its not (between I don't see formula isn't supported yet in Plato). Only one of our user had the virtual column request before.

Mainly I see Plato does not YET support automatic Rest APIs for the databases, webhooks, grid view, gallery view, form view, webhooks, upload csv/json/excel, formulas, SQLite, SQL server, docker, executables, open-source and so many other features. Having said that Im sure these will be looked into in coming years.

Really happy to see simple and powerful tools in this space were lacking and we are all trying to fill the big void here.

We do ship binaries for all platform. Lot of our users run it on Raspberry PI. However there is no static library though.
Founder of noco here.

We do support SQLite as well and it comes with litestream baked in within our docker.

Re:Show HN: Versioning Filesystem for SQLite on Monday August 29, 2022 @07:43AM (#32637016)
Ah cool. We are defaulting to using sqlite for storing metadata too.

Happy to chat and exchange notes - my email is in the profile.

Re:Show HN: Versioning Filesystem for SQLite on Sunday August 28, 2022 @05:15PM (#32632126)
Would love to learn more on the motivation behind the project
Re:Adminer: Database management in a single PHP file on Monday May 30, 2022 @09:11AM (#31558606)
A http-server like express is a basic necessity.. edited though :)
Re:Adminer: Database management in a single PHP file on Monday May 30, 2022 @08:57AM (#31558492)
@mekster : thank you for the mention.

NocoDB : is a single javascript file.

https://github.com/nocodb/nocodb-seed/blob/main/index.js

(disclaimer : Founder here)

This was easy to try it out. Integrating it with issue trackers (like github, jira etc) would make this really interesting.
Re:NocoDB – Turn your SQL database into a Nocode platform on Wednesday November 10, 2021 @04:27PM (#29181082)
That is one good way to put it :)

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