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Is something like this always just a hack/shortcut or are there people who want this as their ideal workflow? I'm curious because I see stuff like this all the time being submitted to YC.

For example, is this for IT / DBAs that need to gather info for data analysts, marketers and sales people? Are there many people in that position and what would the ideal flow look like? I can see startups and small companies willing to use this as a stopgap, but I couldn't imagine larger customers/companies willing to use something like this.

This isn't to say I don't know why this was built. The same forces are what drove us to build Wufoo. We were tired of building these tedious data collection apps. The DIY builder was out of laziness on our part.

But when it comes to accessing existing data, there's so many concerns about security and privacy that I worry an idea like this will always be limited in terms of adoption.

If people think differently, I would love to know.

Oh, and you should add PostgreSQL support. Maybe it's already supported, but I didn't see it explicitly listed.