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I hated Airtable because it was proprietary system that I could not modify or host myself. Rowy doesn't seem like an improvement because it only connects to Google Firestore, a proprietary and centralized service.

Realistically I just want to use PostgreSQL and an open source UI on top, like NocoDB or Baserow.

But hey, maybe Rowy will be a cold glass of water for those stuck in Firebase hell.

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Wonder if Rowy could be modified to use Hasura[0], a realtime grahql front-end to Postgres

[0] https://hasura.io

We are starting with GCP/Firestore ecosystem first and solving for all the painpoints in it but are definitely looking at other DBs down he line.

I love the last sentence :) Indeed we are trying to solve for users on Firebase and solve their pain points first.