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This myth is pedalled strongly in the recent documentary Kiss the Ground (on Netflix) with Woody Harrelson. It seems that this is Big Ag’s latest attempt to explain why meat eating can be good. It is the only documentary you’ll see about climate change that makes you feel “this is probably going to be OK” which I don’t think is the right sentiment.

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1. Retool targets developers who want to build internal tools faster. Stacker is for business users who aren’t technical. The output might be similar but the audience is different.

2. Yes so the third party SaaS data we are bringing in will appear just like the data from your spreadsheet.

3. We’ve definitely found these users and the vast majority of our customers aren’t technical. We’ve simplified the creation of an app so once you finish onboarding you have a working app, from there it is tweaks to make it the app you need. This makes the process much more approachable for non technical users.

To clarify: all the apps include 500 users as standard so most customers only pay a flat rate per app.

Yes I’d say it’s definitely helped us. The “no code” movement has enabled more people who’ve never contemplated being able to create software start to realise it’s readily possible for them.

I'm Sam, co-founder of Stacker. Since we launched on HN last summer (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24037118) and the batch ended, we've grown to be used in over 500 companies.

One of the key things we've realised from our customers that they've got a lot more data that what sits in their Airtable or Google Sheets. They all also use numerous SaaS tools that master different parts of their organizations' data: things like Stripe, Hubspot, Xero, Quickbooks and many more. They also sometimes have a production SQL database that contains critical customer information.

So we've been focused on expanding our product so we can incorporate more of our customers data and will be adding new data connectors through this quarter: we're starting with SQL, Stripe and Intercom. We want to enable anyone to snap their data together across whichever systems its stored in, and then create the most productive interface for them on top of it.

Stacker (YC S20) | FULL-TIME | REMOTE ONLY (limited to Europe!) . We're on a mission to let anyone create software. We want to change the way software is built. That's a pretty big task, and we've got some exciting problems:

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If you're a PRODUCT-FOCUSED ENGINEER, come and talk to us about how we're building a platform that lets us run rich, flexible apps built without fully code.

You'll be creating a React-based app editor that lets users create software through their browser.

You'll be building a Python-based backend that can connect to any data source, and simulate running complex data processes.

You'll taking ideas from programming language design and turning them into flexible functionality that can be used by non-programmers.

You'll be shipping new modules daily, which are used immediately by our users to make their apps work better and do more.

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If you're a MULTI-SKILLED PRODUCT DESIGNER (UI+UX+Product), come and help us design a modular product that empowers non-developers to build the software they need.

You'll be creating a flexible design system that we can be customized by the user and still look great.

You'll be taking common web features like news feed and messaging, and stripping them down to their most pure form so they work in any app.

You'll be designing a set of modules that let non-technical users feel empowered and able to create amazing, innovative apps.

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We're recently funded, and are a fully remote team, but (pandemic permitting) we get together every few months.

We believe in Radical Transparency, being Empathetic and Kind and Making a Dent in the Universe.

Apply at https://static.stacker.app/hiring . Again, hiring within Europe, and as always, no recruiters ;)

This is really cool! I’ll definitely take a look at this and maybe fork it when we get onto looking at native apps.

We have built a web app (https://stacker.app) for people who want to use an Airtable backend.

AppSheet apps almost exclusively target mobile users + often for external parties. Toga has desktop and mobile experiences and is primarily designed for internal teams.

Thank you, we will fix.

Yep... that was our hack to make the demo apps work without passwords. Quick and dirty... but quick.

Glide is really great at making utility mobile apps on Google Sheets. We see Toga as being used more for your business system, so Toga works in desktop and mobile and has the really fine grained permissions needed to make business systems work.

You're absolutely right. We were just trying to illustrate what "Spreadsheet Hell" is like when you use Google Sheets as a big connected system.

Yes absolutely, we're working on a way to let people graduate to a flexible database.

Sam, one of the creators here. Spreadsheets are still the most flexible software creation tool in existence. Excel and now Google Sheets allow millions of non developers to produce software within their workbooks. However while spreadsheets are great experiences for authoring tools, they aren't so easy for your users.

Toga allows you to create apps from your Google Sheets so you can provide an easy interface for your team (or even your customers and partners) to access, edit and create data. Permissions are integrated to you can limit by the sheet, column and row.

I'd love to hear what you think!

Clickable link: https://airportal.app/

Stacker | React Developers | REMOTE | FULL-TIME + PART-TIME | https://stacker.app Stacker lets you build web apps, without code, in your browser.

And not just landing pages and splash sites either. We're talking full-on, pixel-perfect, I-cant-believe-its-not-code apps that can do complex stuff: communities, marketplaces, business systems, social networks. We think there's so much out there that could be built if we just gave people the tools to make it themselves.

We're letting non-developers build apps without code. Unsurprisingly, we need a lot of code to do that. Come and help us build it!

We're hiring React developers. This ain't your grandma's React app. Help us push React to its limits as we build a frontend builder in a frontend builder https://stacker.app/jobs/react

We're fully remote (currently based in UK, Switzerland, South Africa, France, Spain + China), and flexible about working arrangements.

If this sounds like the sort of problem you'd like to work on, apply now: https://stacker.app/jobs.

Stacker | React & Python Developers | REMOTE | FULL-TIME + PART-TIME | https://stacker.app

Stacker lets you build web apps, without code, in your browser.

And not just landing pages and splash sites either. We're talking full-on, pixel-perfect, I-cant-believe-its-not-code apps that can do complex stuff: communities, marketplaces, business systems, social networks. We think there's so much out there that could be built if we just gave people the tools to make it themselves.

We're letting non-developers build apps without code. Unsurprisingly, we need a lot of code to do that. Come and help us build it!

We're hiring:

- React Developers. This ain't your grandma's React app. Help us push React to its limits as we build a frontend builder in a frontend builder https://stacker.app/jobs/react

- Python Developers. We're building a backend that flexibly connects to any data-source (DB or API) and serves it up as if it were our own https://stacker.app/jobs/python

- Fortran Developers. We don't actually use fortran, but it sounds super cool. Keep it up!

We're fully remote (currently based in UK, Switzerland, South Africa, France, Spain + China), and flexible about working arrangements.

If this sounds like the sort of problem you'd like to work on, apply now: https://stacker.app/jobs.

We’re more expensive than Bubble for individuals, but for teams we are pretty competitive I think.

In Stacker apps are made out of bigger building blocks than in Bubble so eg. not everyone has to build their own news feed from scratch. We also use flexbox rather than absolute positioning so our apps can be more responsive on different screen sizes.

No support community yet, thank you for the link, we’ll add our tutorials in there.

Hey! Co-founder here, we don't support external databases today but we're working on it! We hope this makes it easier to dip into Stacker. The opposite works already, each app created in Stacker has a REST API.

That link is not available from Europe #GDPR.