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by gervwyk 1906 days ago
Hi, We've built Lowdefy [0] for exactly this reason. It it is open-source, low-code and self hosted. On our team we have data analysts and implementation engineers (non-developers) creating apps in Lowdefy. For Lowdefy I would say that the minimum tech expertise required is someone who can learn to write data queries.

We are currently working on SQL support and should have the first SQL connectors out next week. Please give me a shout if we can be of any assistance! gvw [at] lowdefy.com

[0] - https://lowdefy.com

2 comments

Since you are creating all apps in readable YAML format, it is easy to version control or review changes which others has made. This is really helpful when you want less technical members of the team to contribute.

Also it seamlessly integrate with existing CI tools and you can use your favourite text editor to create apps, develop templates. Since the Lowdefy apps is purely defined as JSON, or YAML, you can easily write scripts to mange and maintain multiple or larger applications. For example this is how we generate the Lowdefy docs form json-schema definitions.

I love Lowdefy (I've seen it a couple week back here on HN) but I have dismissed it given that there's no SQL connector right now. It's great to hear that you're working on that!
Thanks! Glad you love it :) SQL support and inline JS is next on the roadmap, and actually mostly implemented, we're busy documenting and doing more testing. So we are really excited to ship it soon!

We also implemented OpenID Connect support so you can "bring your own" auth service. Will be making a post again when these new features ship in the very near future.

Hope you give it a shot! And let us know if we can help!