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by dy 2601 days ago
Surprising this left out the dominance of Salesforce for business process and general CRUD type apps.
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tyingq 2601 days ago
It's interesting that nothing open source has emerged in this space.

Lots of choices in the closed source space. Salesforce, Airtable, Quickbase, Google AppMaker, Knack, Zoho, etc.

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dzhiurgis 2601 days ago
It takes a lot of hand holding when your "citizen developers" (legit Salesforce term) are unqualified engineers.

Unsure how that combines with open source...

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matdrewin 2601 days ago
BonitaSoft has an open source community edition.
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d0100 2601 days ago
Been trying to use Airtable for a few apps (project management, quotes, etc) and it just lacks enough that it can't be used practically in a reusable fashion.
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zubairq 2601 days ago
Actually Yazz.com is open source and a low code environment so this is not true
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tyingq 2601 days ago
Ahh, hadn't seen that before. I stand corrected.
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flukus 2601 days ago
As soon as you get something slightly complicated they tend to involve 10 times the code.
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matdrewin 2601 days ago
I was surprised by the omission as well.
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