Baserow - Airtable Alternative

[plusone-nick]

@marcusquinn Yeah I am looking forward to Directus, ive dabbled with it and have up-voted the thread. Always good to have a second one in mind & encourage "competition" though lol

[doodlemania2]

Following closely. I've offered to package this and seatable as soon as they get ready!

[plusone-nick]

@doodlemania2 Not all heroes wear capes +1

[doodlemania2]

Been playing with Directus this weekend. It looks quite polished. The main challenge I see right now would be using it against a non-provided DB, which may not be an issue, but something to think about.
Will keep at it!

[marcusquinn]

@doodlemania2 I think the way to do it would be take an default Directus instance. Export SQL from another App and Import to the Directus DB as I don't think other Cloudron DBs are available outside of their container?

Then as you navigate, it recognises and work with whatever tables there are in the DB. The Directus User, Permissions, Audit Trail tables remain separate.

Personally, I think it would be interesting to take the SQL from another interesting FOSS App that has a dated interface, like GNU Cash or Front Accounting to give it a modern framework.

[yusf]

I took the Baserow demo for a spin. It's very basic as of today.

[plusone-nick]

@yusf worth further packaging as is or hold off until their road-map is complete and or 1.0?

[yusf]

@plusone-nick I don’t see the point of packaging it in the current state, no. Let’s see which one of Baserow, Seatable or other wins the feature race.

[doodlemania2]

Seatable is very unstable atm. Hoping directus is better.

[yusf]

@doodlemania2 I took Directus for a spin. It's a completely different type of tool, it has very little in common with what Airtable/Notion/Baserow/Seatable does.

[doodlemania2]

@yusf yeah, it's more a headless crm as opposed to a shiny simple grid, but they sort of fall into the same category. Definitely still need an airtable alternative!

[plusone-nick]

End of the Year Update: https://baserow.io/blog/december-release-of-baserow

All the changes of Baserow version 0.7.0 listed.

• Increased the number size that be used within a number field (by Keith).
• Fixed bug where the row state is never matching if the filter type was set to OR in combination with only one filter.
• Fixed the keyboard navigation of the dropdown items when a search query was provided.
• Added filtering by GET parameter support to the rows listing endpoint.
• Fixed drifting context menu when you scroll or resize the window.
• Create and update timestamps are now stored when the groups, applications, tables, views, fields and rows are created or modified.
• It's now possible to change a file name.
• Added the possibility to insert a new row above or below an existing row.
• Made it possible to include or exclude specific fields when listing rows via the API.
• Implemented the single select field.

Real time collaboration Coming In Jan!

[bram]

Hello everyone, my name is Bram Wiepjes and I am the founder of Baserow. I have created a Baserow Cloudron app. More information can be found here: https://forum.cloudron.io/topic/4389/baserow-cloudron-app.

[plusone-nick]

@bram +1

[marcusquinn]

@bram Hey Bram - welcome and thank you! Cloudron's a great place to get more feedback and win some fans and promoters for what you do!

[jdaviescoates]

@Staff by the sounds of it this should perhaps be marked as a WIP?

[girish]

There are docs at https://baserow.io/docs/guides/installation/install-on-cloudron if someone wants to try.

[ctrl]

@girish Will Baserow be available as an official app on the appstore?

[marcusquinn]

@ctrl I guess the idea here is that early adopters help test first, find any issues and give feedback to confirm when ready for general release.

[girish]

@ctrl I don't see why not.

Has anyone here played with the app (you can sign up on baserow.io as well) and had any thoughts/comments?