Comment by bram2w | Hacker News Reader

Comment by bram2w | Hacker News Reader

I see a lot of comments about people who are worried that Google might shutdown the service entirely and I agree with your concerns. The last months we have seen a lot of giants building their own database spreadsheet like hybrid, Google Tables, Microsoft Lists and Amazon Honeycode. Tools like these contain your most important data and you want to have freedom, security and independence as they can be an important part of your business.

Because of these reasons I started Baserow (https://baserow.io), which is an open source (https://gitlab.com/bramw/baserow) alternative to Airtable and the listed tools above. It is still in an early phase, but every week new features are implemented.

Some unique points:

- Unlimited rows.

- Open source, released under the MIT license.

- Uses popular frameworks like Django and Nuxt.js

- Uses PostgreSQL as database backend.

- It can be self hosted.

- You can have many rows per table, 100k+.

- Headless and API first.

- Supports plugins.

Seatable[0] is another alternative which is mostly open source, following a licensing similar to MongoDB for their server if I recall correctly. They're now on version 1.3, not sure if they're fully stable yet but it's a viable self-hosted alternative.

[0] https://seatable.io/

Your website design looks very nice. What css/ui framework did you make use of it?

Thanks! It does not use a css/ui framework. It is something I designed and build from scratch.

I believe they didn't use any CSS framework, it's handrolled Sass styles (other than Normalize and Font Awesome).

https://gitlab.com/bramw/baserow/-/tree/develop/web-frontend...

They do use Nuxt, a fullstack framework for Vue.js, which is style-agnostic.

https://nuxtjs.org/

Amazing work. This may be a very obvious question, but just to be clear, does the github repo offer the same as the hosted SaaS version? Meaning can I host this internally and play around with it as a proof-of-concept at work?

Yes you can! The open source version offers the same functionality as the SaaS version. If you have Docker installed on your computer you can follow the demo environment tutorial at https://baserow.io/docs/guides/demo-environment to test out a copy locally.

Great, thanks! Will definitely have to give it a whirl when I free some time on my schedule

Anyway to generate types ( like I define Box, I get a Box object ) for something like a node SDK. Strapi does this,

This is pretty cool, thanks!

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