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Looks great, there's a very defined use-case and the video is very clear.

Does anyone know of any other similar piece of software, preferably open source, that allows for complete customization? I have another use-case different from the one on this product and I could use some advice.

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That does everything from ingesting an existing database to forms? Not really, not perfectly (not that this is "perfect" either).

There's some things that get close though, like Directus (directus.io). API-wise there's PostgREST ( http://postgrest.org/ ), PostGraphile ( https://www.graphile.org/postgraphile/ ) and Hasura ( https://hasura.io/ ). Commercially there's Supabase (https://supabase.io/) which is new and based on PostgREST and their own tooling, and SubZero ( https://subzero.cloud/ ) which is similar.

There are some non-ingestion (requires you to use the frontend) headless CMS options that may also fill this space ( https://headlesscms.org/ ) if you tilt your head and squint.

This space seems to be growing, primarily on the API side, I imagine the frontend side may be next.

Currently my favorite is PostgREST and custom VueJS forms (using Quasar for "rapid dev"), but requires lots of 'bring your own' work.

Hey there - We (seekwell [0]) let you create highly customizable Forms [1] and editable tables [2] which you can add to a dashboard and expose to non-technical people on your team. We have a company with over 100 people in sales and operations using this daily. Supports Postgres, MySQL, Snowflake and SQL Server.

0 - https://seekwell.io/

1 - https://www.notion.so/Forms-6c37026024db4f7a8b149f5bd38d7cf5

2 - https://www.notion.so/Parameters-e18b84a0e07d42ba981a449e2e5...

Thanks for that! I set out to make a simple solution to a real problem that I had experienced on a lot of web development projects. I hope it's useful to others as well.

I looked around for a long time for a similar tool -- open source or otherwise -- and I never found something exactly like what I had in my head. So I decided to built it myself.

I'd be very interested in hear about your "other different use-case" ... I'm very open to making enhancements and adding new features driven by specific user's needs. If you'd like to chat about what you're trying to build, please drop me a line and maybe we can make something happen!

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Please see here : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24412737

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