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by jcdreads 2797 days ago
I miss DabbleDB greatly.

I once made a real meals-and-visits schedule signup sheet app for a sick relative (dozens of folks signing up for slots over days, etc.) in about 20 minutes, including learning a bunch about the tool.

Ultimately it "just" made CRUD apps, but it made the process amazingly fast. The equivalent of updating a Django model and view was usually a click or two with no waiting, and the only typing was to name things.

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This was a cool illustration of the Smalltalk programming language. I never found a use for Dabble (well, until recently when I went looking for it), but the demos were magical.
The demo is worth a watch if you haven't heard of DabbleDB before: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wZmYMWKLkY
What are the current alternatives? Airtable?
Yes! It was amazing. It makes me want to learn Smalltalk (the language which it was written in).
Airtable?