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by yodon 1906 days ago
PowerApps [0] is a surprisingly powerful and flexible low code app builder (that can connect to MySQL, etc.)

[0] https://powerapps.microsoft.com/

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I second PowerApps. There’s a to user-friendly tutorials out there and their programming model is based on concepts similar to Excel.

It should be fairly easy to pick up for end users. But only if you don’t use denormalized tables. If your DB is in 2/3NF you’ll run into issues, e.g. the ever so useful DataTable cannot update data across table.

Also, there’s a pretty significant hard limit on 500 rows.

PowerApps is a great tool, but be aware of its limitations and see if that works for you.