Baserow - Airtable Alternative

[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?

[doodlemania2]

@girish it's pretty amazing - working with @robi on finishing up BBB and Nextcloud HPBE (standalone) and then will turn my attention to this and plenoma

[jdaviescoates]

@doodlemania2 said in Baserow - Airtable Alternative:

working with @robi on finishing up BBB and Nextcloud HPBE (standalone)

Awesome!

I only just spotted that BBB 2.3-beta-1 is out https://github.com/bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton/releases

This is off-topic, but I assume that's work you're working with that version?

[doodlemania2]

@jdaviescoates yep

[nikosgpet]

@bram Baserow looks really promising! I just took it for a spin using Cloudron. I am would like to connect to the postgres database, but I really can't seem to find it. When I connect to the app by the terminal, there is no Postgres process running. Similarly, in the supervisor file I see no mention of postgres. Yet in all evidence, baserow is running smoothly so surely the database is running somewhere, I just can't seem to find where. Some help would be greatly appreciated.

[doodlemania2]

@nikosgpet The Baserow I'm using looks okay:

I haven't figured out the default username and password yet haha, so if you have that laying around, that'd help me out too!

[bram]

@nikosgpet Hi @nikosgpet, thanks! I am glad that you like Baserow. The PostgreSQL server is not installed in the Cloudron app. We use the Cloudron PostgreSQL addon, which runs in a different kubernetes pod. In the terminal, you should be able to execute PGPASSWORD=${CLOUDRON_POSTGRESQL_PASSWORD} psql -h ${CLOUDRON_POSTGRESQL_HOST} -p ${CLOUDRON_POSTGRESQL_PORT} -U ${CLOUDRON_POSTGRESQL_USERNAME} -d ${CLOUDRON_POSTGRESQL_DATABASE} to access the PostgreSQL database.