[radva42]

Visual builders seem like a somewhat controversial topic on HN, but I personally am a huge supporter of the idea. So much so that I invested a lot of time in building a visual builder for database software myself [1]. It's a tool that looks perfect for UX designers, who can use it to build fully functional CRUD apps without writing code.

For example starting with the standard CRM and invoicing apps and going to more complex apps for inventory management, product & project management - virtually any kind of database software can be built without writing code.

[1] https://www.formbolt.com

[prepend]

This tool (yours?) looks promising and I’ll try it.

I’m skeptical though as I lived through the 90s 4gl database software for PCs like Clarion, FoxPro, Access and others that promised the sane thing but required lots of coding for the final 10% needed to go live.

[radva42]

Awesome, let me know what you think.

[garyclarke27]

I agree, I come from a finance background, now designing erp / crm. I can code and I’m expert in SQL and Excel. I’m amazed how primitive software languages, still are and how terrible they are for GUI, all they seeem to offer is - if then else, case, loops, some pattern matching and recursion, they’re all the same - not much better than VB for 20 years ago. SQL is more advanced and powerful. Shame nothing like SQL for UI, HTML is declarative but too dumb and static no equivalent to AI query analyzer to auto layout screens based on constraints and designer inputs from a graphic tool. NO designers should NOT have to use text to design, especially not 3 different primitive languages, ridiculous arrogant way of thinking from coders, who would no doubt struggle to draw a smiley. Anyway rant over, your tool looks amazing from a cursory glance, what tech stack is built on? your website doesn’t say?? can forms / nodes easily connect to Postgres Functions? I use functions for all data IO. Is it easy to port to high performance server stack,from local machine prototype? I’m happy to pay licence fees, just for the tool though, I must have complete control over anything built by it. I have seen a similar python based tool, but it is hosted output only, so of no use to me.