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I haven't seen anyone mention Anvil[1] yet, but it lets you "Build web apps with nothing but Python." and is lovely tool that I've successfully used for a handful of side projects.

But as someone who feels most at home with Python, I always love to see new competition in this space.

[1] https://anvil.works/

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EDIT: My following statement about self hosting is incorrect. You can, infact, self host.

This looks wonderful, but the inability to self host is a killer from the solo developer point of view. Being limited to 50,000 database rows on the free account isn't ideal.

I totally thought Anvil had self-hosting. I was seriously considering it for my next project. Now not so much.

One of the founders corrected my statement. Apparently you can self host.

Anvil has self-hosting! Just "pip install anvil-app-server" :)

https://anvil.works/open-source

(I'm a founder)

Well, I stand corrected! I was looking through the mobile site and didn't spot it. This makes me want to look a bit harder.

When self hosting, do you gain or miss out on paid features?

Nice! I haven't seen this one before. Will definitely take a look. Thanks for posting.

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