[ryan_platofy]

This looks great and congratulations on the alpha launch! Reminds me of another open source project in this space, NocoDB. Are you guys familiar with that project? If so, what are the main differences between them and what you are offering?

[pavish]

Thank you!

We've documented the differences between Mathesar and other similar products including NocoDB on the FAQ section[1] in our website.

[1] https://mathesar.org/faq.html#how-is-mathesar-different-from...

[ryan_platofy]

Apologies, somehow missed that. Thanks for the speedy response. Your explanation is very clear. Something that is keeping me tied to Airtable is their 'interface designer'. Allows for rapidly building internal admin tools. Something similar is apparently on NocoDB's roadmap (they are calling it page designer I believe). Am I correct in saying that this not something that is on your current Roadmap (had a look, but did not spot something similar, but could have misread)?

[pavish]

You're right, it's not in our current roadmap, which focuses mainly on features that improve data entry, analysis, visualization, and collaboration. Having said that, Mathesar could grow as a product and have a diverse set of features we've not yet planned, in the next few years.

A feature to build interfaces for internal admin tools sounds very cool, and while we cannot say that it's coming for sure, we'll definitely be discussing it. Please feel free to open a feature request issue on our Github repo, we'd appreciate it.

[kgodey]

To add to what Pavish said: Our designer is excited about building an Airtable-like interface designer, but there's a lot of complexity involved, and it will cater to a whole different category of users. We want to get our current features to a more stable state before jumping into that. It's definitely on our radar, though.