[HN Gopher] Show HN: Budibase - An open-source low code platform ___________________________________________________________________ Show HN: Budibase - An open-source low code platform Author : foxbee Score : 160 points Date : 2021-11-16 16:29 UTC (6 hours ago) (HTM) web link (budibase.com) (TXT) w3m dump (budibase.com) | gervwyk wrote: | Great work guys! Really high quality promotional video. Love it! | mjashanks wrote: | Thank you! Credit to https://www.thehypefactory.uk | shogunpurple wrote: | Hi folks! Budibase CTO and co-founder here. | | We can't wait for the community to use and get value from | budibase - in both our cloud and self hosted offerings. | | Happy to answer any questions about our tech and our plans for | the future! | mike_chuckles wrote: | Really glad to see you guys launching out of beta! I remember | trying Budibase a while ago, one thing I notice you didn't | mention was an Oracle database integration, is this something | that might happen any time soon? | shogunpurple wrote: | We are currently in the process of shipping an oracle | integration and it will be available in our release next week! | | Our oracle integration will also include automatic schema | fetching and query generation, so we can completely automate | CRUD operations against your existing oracle database. | mike_chuckles wrote: | That's great, will have to give it a try! | spmurrayzzz wrote: | I attempted to use this a few months ago to prototype a unified | ticketing solution (just an experiment to see if it would be | worth adopting for small internal apps) using pre-existing mongo | data. Seems super early to use this for anything serious in my | view. | | TL;DR - It ended up being orders of magnitude faster for me to | just build it from scratch. | | One of the biggest general UX issues I encountered was how data | sources & queries are defined in the UI, and then how they're | bound in the WSYWIG editor. It wasn't immediately obvious and the | docs are pretty lean. In most cases, I'd just prefer a config | file vs doing everything via the UI. | | I like the idea and how flexible it aims to be generally, but its | in very early stages right now. | | (Small aside: There was also a showstopper mongo bug as well that | would have prevented me from moving forward with the tool even if | I liked it. It was a simple async issue, 11 line diff to fix, but | took months to merge.) | shogunpurple wrote: | Hi, thanks for the feedback, sorry to hear you had some | problems. | | The Mongo connector in general could probably do with some love | - there's a few features in mongo such as projections that | budibase does not support. We'd love to know more about what | you were trying to build and how we could help you achieve it. | | We move quickly, however, and the platform has come a long way | in even a few months. We hope you try the platform again soon | and continue to provide feedback as to where it could be | improved. | | Docs are a big focus for us over the coming months and they | will see significant improvement in short order. | | Thanks again! | spmurrayzzz wrote: | I'd be happy to help out on the mongo side if you'd like. | Maybe some github issues with a related label to help triage | those issues would be helpful for folks to lend a hand. | | I'll concede that no/low-code solutions have never | historically worked out at my organization (context: I am | cofounder and director of engineering at a wireless ISP). | Theres always a set of tradeoffs that make it really hard to | deliver value when you're dealing with business domain | constraints that are hard to generalize. | | That said, I am always willing to give things a fair shot and | have a long list of small use cases that I use for | prototyping when I go down that rabbit hole. | gervwyk wrote: | Check out Lowdefy - https://github.com/lowdefy/lowdefy | | It is open source, self hosted and you write your apps in | config (yaml / json). So your are not trapped in a UI, you are | free to copy paste find and replace and you can version control | as you like. Also, we use it extensively with mongo. | | Shameless plug. Cofounder of Lowdefy | Ace__ wrote: | My use case may or may not have been part of the intended initial | focus of Budibase, which was to create an MVP to test and refine | an idea. I am not a dev, but I was able to find my around it for | the most part. To me, it was like an updated, easier to use MS | Access alternative. When I was stuck, I joined their Discord chat | room. The founders were prompt and informative in response to my | questions. Congratulations on the launch. To success. Ace. | mjashanks wrote: | Thanks Ace! | vailripper wrote: | I've been a big Retool user lately, this looks like a pretty nice | competitor! I like that you've got some workflow components in | here. | | How are the applications stored internally? Is it possible to do | Git-based versioning with apps? | shogunpurple wrote: | Hi, | | Our app metadata is stored as JSON documents in CouchDB, but | entire apps can be exported to .txt files that can be imported | into budibase also. Our templates work through this method. | | We do not currently support git based versioning, although it's | certainly something we could support in future, given the fact | an entire app can be represented in a .txt file. | gerdydog wrote: | I have played around with this product a few times over the last | few months! It's getting better with every release. I used it for | an internal work tool last week and was able to be up and running | in less than an hour, where normally I'd have spent a day at it. | Using the blocks lets me forget about the design as well. | | Would recommend everyone have play with it! | foxbee wrote: | Appreciate the feedback. Blocks are a new feature, and we plan | on adding many more | revskill wrote: | I don't see any demo here. Just one demo to show all strengths of | the platform is still the fastest way to persuade user (like me), | else i have many doubts and questions like, what it can do ? Can | it do this ? How to do this things,... | foxbee wrote: | https://youtu.be/xoljVpty_Kw is a promo demo. You can also try | our templates: https://budibase.com/templates. The setup | process is fast. | blakesterz wrote: | I don't have much to say other than your landing page actually | told me exactly what I could do with Budibase, which seems to not | happen as often as I would expect. I always check out new stuff | like this, and I'm often left wondering how this new thing works. | Nice work explaining what you do! It's not something I'd likely | need, but at least I know what it does. | shogunpurple wrote: | Thanks, really glad to hear that! If you do ever end up trying | the platform, don't hesistate to reach out and ask questions on | our github discussions forum. | ramon wrote: | This to me seems like the more feature full low-code open-source | alternative available, congratulations! | MarkOSullivan wrote: | Got to say a big thanks to the team for what they've built so | far, always enjoy using Budibase and find myself recommending | plenty of other people to give it a try! | | Btw I love seeing the monthly updates Budibase showcase on your | YouTube channel, keep them coming! Makes me excited seeing more | and more features added each and every month on top of everything | that is already there. | foxbee wrote: | Cheers for the support. The videos are a little basic and rough | around the edges, but hopefully they get the point across. | segphault wrote: | Installing the budibase server from npm pulls in over a thousand | transitive dependencies. The npm install command reports that | there are 39 known vulnerabilities in budibase's dependencies, | including 9 that are classed "high" and 3 that are "critical" | severity. | | The dependency graph includes a lot of crap, like packages | containing trivial single-line functions like "is-object" and | "is-stream". That's a very large attack surface considering the | poor security practices in the npm ecosystem[0] and the growing | frequency of attacks on transitive dependencies[1]. | | I'm interested in hearing from the creators what steps they take | to audit their transitive dependencies in order to prevent this | application from being compromised. Given that a tool like this | would typically be given privileged access to internal data | sources, it seems like a tempting target. I don't think I'd be | comfortable using this in production. | | [0]: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/52-percent- | of... [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28962168 | MisterSandman wrote: | You're not wrong, but also, npm audit is pretty much a joke, | and those "high" vulnerabilities aren't as bad as the terminal | would want you to think. Should absolutely be fixed, but just | relying on npm audit is a bit simplistic. | | Your critique about packages for is-object is valid, though. | shogunpurple wrote: | Hi, | | Thanks for the comment. We have just undergone a full security | audit as of 2 weeks ago - any infrastructure or code | vulnerabilities are currently being worked on. | | Many JavaScript projects contain huge dependency trees - it is | unfortunately the nature of a 3rd party module-heavy ecosystem, | and can be hard to tame the sheer size of the tree. We will | update or pin dependencies as needed, to solve the security | issues being reported by NPM. | | I should also mention that since budibase is self-hostable, it | can be run inside all of your existing infrastructure and | network - providing additional layers of security that you can | control. | | Appreciate the feedback, and the information regarding | transitive dependencies - interesting article. | | Note: Seems like source [0] has a broken link. | [deleted] | sharemywin wrote: | I haven't played with the api connector, but where do you store | the api keys? is there a way to throttle the calls and hide them | behind authentication so a user doesn't just blast my api if it's | a paid service? | shogunpurple wrote: | Hi, | | When using the REST connector, the API keys you hard code, as | headers for example, are stored in CouchDB. | | We don't currently have rate limiting in the platform, but | that's a great suggestion - especially if users can control the | intervals. | foxbee wrote: | Hi HN! I'm one of the creators of Budibase, and today, we're | excited to launch Budibase out of beta. | | Budibase is a low code platform for creating CRUD apps, and an | open-source alternative to PowerApps, Mendix, and OutSystems. | | The Github repo is : https://github.com/Budibase/budibase | | And our website is: https://budibase.com | | Before Budibase, my cofounder and I worked together, and we were | constantly tasked with creating CRUD apps for internal operations | - the development process was repetitive, frustrating, and time- | consuming. At the time, I looked at low-code options, but there | was no standout open-source option. | | So, my cofounders and I have spent the last 3 years creating | Budibase, an open-source low code platform, to make it faster, | easier, and more enjoyable to build CRUD apps [forms, admin | panels, approval apps, portals]. | | We believe low-code platforms should seamlessly integrate with a | company's tools and operations. With Budibase, you can create | apps using: MySQL, PostgreSQL, Rest API, and more. Or you can | start from scratch with Budibase's built-in database (built on | Apache CouchDB). Right now, Budibase supports Open ID Connect and | Google Auth. It also supports automations using Slack, email, | Zapier, Integromat, Webhooks, JavaScipt, and you can run scripts, | queries, CRON jobs. | | To design your apps, you basically add pre-built components | [forms, tables, charts, buttons] to screens, then bind data to | those components using Handlebars or JavaScript. Budibase apps | work across desktop, tablet, and mobile. | | As you create more apps and automate more processes, the reliance | on Budibase grows. So, we think it's important that you can 100% | own your data and self-host Budibase on your own infrastructure | (Docker, Digital Ocean, Kubernetes). Deploy Budibase with our | pre-packaged Redis, MinIO, and CouchDB or connect to your own | existing Amazon S3 compliant buckets, Redis clusters or CouchDB | instances. | | Happy to answer any questions. We have a lot more to build and | love to hear use cases and feedback. | | If you are interested, try it out: | | https://github.com/Budibase/budibase | | https://budibase.com | CGamesPlay wrote: | The landing page is devoid of images on Safari. Is the actual | product similarly limited? | foxbee wrote: | What version of safari are you on? | CGamesPlay wrote: | Version 14.1.2 (14611.3.10.1.7) | foxbee wrote: | Strange - Safari supports Webp in v14. Also, I've tested | the website on two computers, both Safari v14 and they | appear. Apologies for this and thanks for letting us know. | I'll keep digging. | shogunpurple wrote: | Thanks for that! Seems like older versions of Safari don't | support the webp format of images that we are using on the | site. | | The actual product does not use this format, so it has full | safari support and will work as expected. | captn3m0 wrote: | I've been looking for a no-code solution to quickly build webapps | on top of APIs exposed for mobile apps. I've been documenting | OpenAPI specs[0], and evaluated most Nocode solutions in the | market, trying out the "Rest API" integration in all of them. | | Did the same for Budibase, and here's some feedback (on just the | REST API integration): | | 1. Please link the (?) icon to the correct place in the docs. eg, | if I'm on the REST screen, it makes more sense to send me to | https://docs.budibase.com/quickstart-tutorials/crud-app-with..., | instead of https://github.com/Budibase/budibase/discussions/ | | 2. Provide html input placeholders in all fields. Understanding | whether "Url" field refers to the base URL, or a complete | endpoint URL (different platforms treat this differently) is | confusing. Even things like whether or not it needs a trailing | slash. Having a placeholder with a standard API (such as OpenAPI | Pets example) makes it easier. | | 3. The Jinja template format is great (I don't think any other | platform came close to what this simple solution does) - but it | isn't documented well enough. The API endpoint creation form | should guide me to it as a possibility - without me having to | look for it. | | 4. Really liked the auto-schema detection. | | 5. The forms really need to be more explanatory. ("Parameters" | could refer to HTTP body parameters, or REST API parameters, but | it's unclear) | | 6. Rough edges such as [1] should either be fixed, or | automatically be disallowed. | | As an aside, I'm curious why the entire nocode industry docs are | on GitBooks. | | [0]: https://stoplight.captnemo.in/ | | [1]: | https://github.com/Budibase/budibase/discussions/1385#discus... | foxbee wrote: | This is great feedback. Thank you! | shogunpurple wrote: | Thanks so much for this detailed feedback. | | We are actually currently planning work to greatly improve the | experience of the REST API integration (including better docs) | - due to it being such a fundamental part of building any | software. | | 1) Good catch, we will fix that right away. 2) Great | suggestion, this will definitely help guide the user. 3) Very | valid - there will be a more wizard based experience for the | REST connector soon. It's quite manual at the moment. | Appreciate that you liked the handlebars templating experience! | 4) This is a big feature for budibase - we try and auto | generate as much as we can, to make the dev experience faster. | 5) More docs and guidance around this is on the way with our | "blocks" feature, which should make building forms a much more | pleasant experience. 6) as above. | | Gitbooks is a pretty nice platform - it takes a lot of the | effort out of creating/designing docs and they recently updated | their editor, so we are very happy with it! | jimiljojo wrote: | congrats! I work in a similar space, and this looks promising. | Suggestion for your marketing team - the promo demo is great, but | make it HD. The demo recording is pixelated on 4K res. You can do | better :) Good luck! | foxbee wrote: | Cheers - where did you watch the promo video? We use wistia for | the website, but you can view it on youtube too. | | Is this any better: https://youtu.be/xoljVpty_Kw | jimiljojo wrote: | that is the one I watched. See screenshot | https://imgur.com/a/4NNv1vN | | The postgres fields are barely visible. I was also looking at | the website templates for the score card. The screens get | blurry there too. I might use the template ;) | https://budibase.com/business-apps/templates/hashicorp- | score... | foxbee wrote: | I will look into it. That's a good template to start with! | snarkypixel wrote: | Raw feedback: I think the product is promising and is cool, but | the marketing/brand-image is cringey and turned me off | completely. | foxbee wrote: | What did you feel was cringey? | rpowell9k wrote: | Looks great! I've used budibase before and it's looking really | well these days, loving the UX improvements. Are there any plans | for out of the box metrics or monitoring? e.g. with open source | tools like prometheus | shogunpurple wrote: | Thanks - we have been working hard on making UX a priority for | budibase and glad to see that it's paid off! | | We plan on introducing a self-hostable metrics stack built on | exactly the technologies you mentioned in the next few months. | Grafana, Loki, Prometheus and more. | | This should give users total insight into what's going on in | their budibase installations and allow them control over their | budibase infrastructure. | rpowell9k wrote: | that sounds great - thanks for the quick reply looking | forward to it | jFriedensreich wrote: | congrats! following you for a while now and i think this could | hit a sweet spot that is currently only occupied by retool. | foxbee wrote: | Thanks + it's open source which every dev tool should be! | mjashanks wrote: | Hey Everyone! Other Budibase co-founder here. | | An open-source platform is the missing piece to the low-code/no- | code landscape - I'm also here to answer any questions! | innomatics wrote: | Is your landing page and hosting dashboard all built and powered | by Budibase? | shogunpurple wrote: | Hi, | | Nope it isn't - our website is built with hugo | https://gohugo.io/ | | Our hosting dashboard is built with svelte. | RonanMcQ wrote: | I've been using Budibase for a while now to build different | business apps. Really impressed with how easy it is to get | deployable tools up and running (as someone who's not the best | coder). Can't wait to see what else is in the pipeline! | sharemywin wrote: | I would like to see a hosted tier between Enterprise and Free. | | maybe something like $10/dev plus upcharges for storage and data | transfer. but unlimited apps(or at least a generous amount of | apps). and an issue escalation charge. | mjashanks wrote: | Thanks for the feedback! We've not yet settled our pricing, | which is why its not listed. | | Great to hear some opinions on it :) | sharemywin wrote: | just looking for a budget friendly option for small indie | devs. lots of ideas but probably not a lot of traction. | Multrex wrote: | What's the difference between Budibase and AppSmith and what is | the benefit to switch my apps from AppSmith to Budibase? | [deleted] | mjashanks wrote: | TLDR; AppSmith and Budibase are quite different platforms, but | with significant overlap. | | Budibase is meant to be used by IT Professionals (sysadmins, | dbas, IT managers, PMs, developers). AppSmith is more targeted | at developers. Because of this, Budibase has much less of a | reliance on code - we like to say "code optional". | | Also, you will see us talk more about "Business apps", rather | than "Internal Tools". A Budibase app is a real, single-page | application - which you would happily give out to external | users and folks in other departments who do not need to know | your team's internal processes. The apps are also responsive by | default. | | Another differentiator is that Budibase comes packaged with a | database (runs on CouchDB). This makes creating new | applications easy - without having to spin up another DB. We | also offer 1st class support for SQL Databases - Budibase will | automatically fetch your tables and automate the basic INSERT, | UPDATE, SELECT and DELETE statements (like an ORM). | | If you want to place us in the overall low-code landscape, we | are more like an open-source Powerapps/Mendix/OutSystems. I | sometimes say (half-jokingly) that Budibase is what would | happen if Retool and Stacker had an open-source baby. | robjeiter wrote: | hey there, here is Rob, co-founder at Chartmat. Congrats on | your Launch. this looks amazing. Also super interesting | thread on HN. | | At Chartmat we also provide internal apps, forms & dashboards | (we are at an early stage though). however, we are targeting | non-technical users (no-code niche), since we found it hard | with our previous low-code iteration to get enough users. | | I wish you guys all the best on your way & I'm always happy | to exchange experiences. Keep the good work up! | arey_abhishek wrote: | Appsmith founder here. Congratulations on launching Budibase! I | think it's a beautiful product. | | Like MJshanks mentioned, there's some overlap in the usecases | but there are significant differences in the platform | direction. Budibase is more no-code, while Appsmith is geared | towards developers aiming to build complex applications. | | Appsmith is a more popular and mature tool with high quality | documentation, video tutorials and stellar community support. | The GitHub stars, issue list, and size of Discord community | reflect this. [0] | | 1. According to users who've tried both, Appsmith's UX is | simpler and enables building information dense UI. Appsmith has | drag and drop to build absolute UI vs. relative positioning in | Budibase. This does make Budibase apps more mobile responsive | than Appsmith ones. Links to comments by other HN users [1] [2] | | 2. Appsmith is a more powerful platform with a high ceiling and | low floor for entry. You can build simple apps quickly by auto- | generating them. In Appsmith, you can write full-fledged | JavaScript anywhere on the platform. This ensures all your | business logic is always expressed correctly. You can map over | data, merge data from different data sources, trigger | conditional workflows, and conditionally control widget | properties all with a few snippets of code. | | Few more feature differences: | | 1. Appsmith has more UI components and support for 100+ charts | | 2. Built in git sync for version control | | 3. Real-time commenting and real-time editing(WIP) to enable | collaboration between users | | 4. Appsmith has organizations/workspaces to help freelancers | manage multiple projects | | 5. Error logger and linter to debug issues | | Honestly at a more fundamental level, it's just great to see | all the different products that have come out over the years | that are trying to tackle the same problem space. When we | started out initially, we didn't find any open-source | alternatives (Budibase wasn't open source then), and so we | embarked on building it. And now it's great to see so many | different products, which gives users more choice and power | over finding the platform that fits their needs best. | | [0] https://github.com/appsmithorg/appsmith | | [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28991242 | | [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28304152 | f6v wrote: | But what if I want to see the pricing right away? | mjashanks wrote: | We haven't yet worked out out our pricing model for Budibase | Cloud. However, it will most likely be user-based / per seat - | similar to platforms like Retool & Airtable. | oezi wrote: | Such pricing models would prevent any kind of resale for most | products. Please at least consider a pricing model which | allows for something like 1 USD per MAU, for instance if data | isn't shared between users (could a SaaS be build on budibase | which cost 10 USD per month to the end-user). | mjashanks wrote: | I hear you! Budibase is not meant for building a SaaS | product. However, it's good for "Customer Portals" - | whereby you are giving access to external users. This is a | problem for per-seat pricing, but there are ways to solve | it. | | We've thought about pricing per MAU. The difficulty is that | we would always be charging for last month's usage, rather | than more predictable upfront charging. Also - coming up | with an exact definition of "active" is not trivial! | | Thanks for the feedback! | swyx wrote: | just chiming in to congratulate you on a successful Product Hunt | launch today as well! | (https://www.producthunt.com/posts/budibase) | | i gotta ask about the tradeoffs of being open source. It's great | for trust and marketing, but if people can self-host Budibase | they're always weighing DIY vs paying you. I also work in an open | source company and I know product development is often slowed | because you have to consider the open ended needs of the open | source users vs the constrained assumptions of your cloud. | | Any insights or rules of thumb you've developed to think about | running an open source business? | mjashanks wrote: | Thanks! Open-source has been fantastic for us. We've only | recently launched our cloud platform, yet we've had a good | sized community using Budibase and feeding back issues, feature | requests etc. for ages. Building an open-source product has | been so rewarding that way. | | Of course, you're exactly right - we now have another ball to | juggle; keeping our cloud up and running! | | It took us nearly 3 years to open our cloud up, but I'm so glad | that we left it this long. Only now do we have the engineering | resource to handle open-source/self-host and cloud whilst still | keeping the pace of development up. | | So, for tips - work on product, product, product. Build your | community and give them a great open-source offering. Your | community will give back in return - even pure product feedback | is gold. Then launch cloud when your direction is solid and | you're confident in your product. | peterkelly wrote: | I notice you've used two different programming languages to | express application logic. A the high-level, you have | automations, which are simple but look very limited in terms of | capabilities (i haven't studied this part in great detail, but | does its support things like looping, arbitrary conditional | expressions, and an abstraction mechanism like user-defined | functions?). At the low level, you have JavaScript to do fine- | grained data manipulation, which is often necessary to take care | of details like computing summaries of data or transforming | between different formats. | | I've seen this approach used in a _lot_ of different workflow | systems over the years, and it 's always struck be as awkward. | Have you considered designing the automation language in such a | way that it is sufficiently expressive to cover the full range of | needs for apps, from the high-level aspects to the low-level | details? | | The approach I prefer to use is to pick a suitably generic | language (generally based on a formal process calculus and | extended with useful primitives). I'm on my second round of doing | this now (first as an academic research project, now in industry) | and in both cases it's been based on lambda calculus (and in the | industry project, based on Scheme). The language constructs and | model of computation are identical whether you're implementing | high-level aspects of the workflow logic (a sequence of steps, | with optional conditional branches, looping etc) and low-level | aspects (iterating through a list of numbers to compute the sum). | One language + interpreter takes care of both. I discuss this | approach in Chapters 2 and 3 of | https://www.pmkelly.net/publications/thesis.pdf. | gervwyk wrote: | I've read your abstract and it looks very interesting! I'll be | diving into the rest as I find time over the next few weeks | thanks for sharing! And well done on this piece of work! | | It was interesting to me that you mentioned "functional | programming as a model for data-oriented workflow languages". I | find it interesting because we are building Lowdefy [0] with | which you can express feature rich apps in yaml / json, and | have been considering how to implement DAG type stuff in future | versions. | | We've taken a lot of inspiration from Mongodb aggression query | language and as a result built a json / yaml parser which | evaluates functions (operators) to implement logic throughout | the app. This proved to be extremely flexible, easy to use for | data manipulation, and surprisingly performant as we can | actually evaluate the expressions during the render loop. | | Going to read more parts of your thesis. | | [0] - https://github.com/lowdefy/lowdefy | shogunpurple wrote: | Hi Peter, | | Automations are simple by design - the general automation steps | are kept simple so they are easy to configure and create. We do | however have a JS and a bash automation block. These blocks let | you perform looping, iteration and logic using either | JavaScript or bash. | | The reason we use JavaScript is simple. Most software engineers | can write or at least express simple constructs in JavaScript. | Being a C family language, this makes it easy to pick up for | engineers who have been exposed to other languages like Java, | for example. | | The problems you are describing are actually something that we | have felt before, when budibase did not have JS support, we had | users reporting that the templating/handlebars syntax was not | good for logic, and was new to them. It was esoteric and | required in depth knowledge for advanced use cases. | | Using an off-the-shelf high level or more specific expressive | language has some serious drawbacks, especially if you create | it yourself. The first is education - writing extensive docs | around how to write and use that language. The next is | maintenance - maintaining your own custom PEG grammar or | programming language is a huge project in itself, not even | including the research required to execute it well. | | By using JavaScript, we can leverage the already existing | plumbing for executing JavaScript, and provide something that | has much for familiarity to the general user. | miki_tyler wrote: | I see that you support some integrations. We are interested on | that (http://stack55.com), do you provide or plan to build some | custom API? | shogunpurple wrote: | Hi, | | We currently do not have a documented direct REST API - but you | can use our webhook feature to ping budibase and trigger | actions within the platform. | | We do plan to provide a custom API and a fully documented, | official HTTP API in the next few months. | fuddle wrote: | Looks awesome! It's great to see more open source companies doing | well. | foxbee wrote: | Thank you for your kind words | tomnipotent wrote: | I really appreciate how forward your product is with pushing the | open source version. After clicking around for a bit in Cloud, it | made is so easy to commit to a local install. | | Budibase is definitely a product I could see preferring to spend | on Enterprise, unless there was a very compelling my team could | accomplish "more" with self-hosting. I just ask that if you end | up with some sort of per-user/seat fee, that you follow Slack's | lead and charge only for activity. This will win my heart over. | | Also, custom domain support. Execs love their vanity URLs. | mjashanks wrote: | Thank you! I hear you with the pricing for activity. It's | definitely something that we will consider. | | And who doesn't love a vanity URL?! ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2021-11-16 23:00 UTC)