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       Show HN: I built an open-source SwiftUI app with an Airtable back
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       Author : kine
       Score  : 40 points
       Date   : 2020-05-07 18:11 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
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       | agustif wrote:
       | You might wanna consider FaunaDB if you want to make the backend
       | a bit more database-like but still serverless.
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       | Their GraphQL API is neat.
        
         | jmuguy wrote:
         | I think the main advantage of Airtable is the GUI, does faunadb
         | have anything like that?
        
       | Tehchops wrote:
       | Nice work!
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       | I've been exploring using AirTable as a potential back-end for
       | read-sometimes/write-rarely data.
        
         | kine wrote:
         | Thanks! It's fun and definitely useful as long as you're not
         | trying to us it as Redis ;)
        
       | whoisjuan wrote:
       | I already use Airtable as a backend for some small internal
       | tools. It definitely does the job but there are some moments
       | where I feel it might be easier and more flexible just to create
       | something on Firebase. From an API perspective storing and
       | retrieving objects in both is equally as easy.
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       | The only reason I went with Airtable is because I needed a GUI to
       | add data manually.
        
         | kine wrote:
         | 100%. I love Firebase's speed but digging into the data and
         | modifying it through their console is a total pain.
        
         | lima wrote:
         | Currently migrating a data-heavy Firebase project to plain
         | boring Django. We didn't need the realtime and offline features
         | of Firebase and it's a massive pain to work with.
         | 
         | A regular SQL database and a good ORM is so much more
         | productive. Servers have terabytes of RAM these days.
        
           | kyawzazaw wrote:
           | Was using Firebase for a small project to store non-
           | relational Data. Switching to JSON was much more easier.
        
           | tschellenbach wrote:
           | Django + DRF is pretty amazing in terms of productivity
        
       | davyson wrote:
       | This is really cool! I'll definitely take a look at this and
       | maybe fork it when we get onto looking at native apps.
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       | We have built a web app (https://stacker.app) for people who want
       | to use an Airtable backend.
        
         | kine wrote:
         | Nice! I'll check Stacker out!
        
       | pqb wrote:
       | Impressive work.
        
         | kine wrote:
         | Thank you
        
       | fiveSpeedManual wrote:
       | Oh very cool! Love the idea of using a third-party service to
       | store data for simple projects, mobile apps included!
       | 
       | If anyone is looking for a similar solution, a place to dump data
       | for personal projects, check out Pantry
       | (https://getpantry.cloud/). It lets you store JSON and has a
       | simple API.
        
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