budibase VS appsmith

The Github repo is : https://github.com/Budibase/budibase And our website is: https://budibase.com Before Budibase, my cofounder and I worked together, and we were constantly tasked with creating CRUD apps for internal operations - the development process was repetitive, frustrating, and time-consuming. At the time, I looked at low-code options, but there was no standout open-source option.

I am the cofounder of Budibase, and I agree with the many comments here around Microsoft throwing tools at the low-code space and seeing what sticks. The most popular source of users we get are PowerApps users who are fed up with the constant change and moving states.

If you are looking for an open source alternative to Powerapps - check out Budibase [1][2]

[1] https://github.com/Budibase/budibase

[2] https://budibase.com

I am happy to remove this post, as it is slightly promotional, but I do feel it is very relevant.

budibase.com

- only a few, like Budibase [1], Tooljet [2], n8n [3] are open source. I cannot understand how users are willing to bet their data and processes on closed source tooling

[1] https://github.com/Budibase/budibase

Awesome! Go into the world and build! (Also consider giving us a star on GitHub)

Lastly, signup for Appsmith and create a new app. Go to Datasources > Create New > PostgreSQL and fill the form to connect to your Supabase instance.

You can expand on this and add more features to the app. The floor is all yours! We’d love to see what you add next. By the way, give us a star any time you visit github.

If you're new to Appsmith, it's an open-source framework that lets your team build custom internal applications like dashboards, admin panels, CRUD apps faster, and together

We’ve got a host of other bug fixes and updates too, be sure to check out our release notes here.

Hey folks! I am the founder of Appsmith, an open-source framework to quickly build any custom business software like admin panels, internal tools, dashboards, and more with pre-built UI widgets that connect to any database, GraphQL or REST API, controlling everything with Javascript. Such software is often used in pretty much every organization (as well as for hobby projects) and often developers spend countless hours on something like React or Angular to create these applications.

How would you say this compares to Appsmith?

Please check out Appsmith as another open source alternative. I'm biased as a founder, but it's the better one among the alternatives https://github.com/appsmithorg/appsmith

Appsmith founder here. Congratulations on launching Budibase! I think it's a beautiful product.

Like MJshanks mentioned, there's some overlap in the usecases but there are significant differences in the platform direction. Budibase is more no-code, while Appsmith is geared towards developers aiming to build complex applications.

Appsmith is a more popular and mature tool with high quality documentation, video tutorials and stellar community support. The GitHub stars, issue list, and size of Discord community reflect this. [0]

1. According to users who've tried both, Appsmith's UX is simpler and enables building information dense UI. Appsmith has drag and drop to build absolute UI vs. relative positioning in Budibase. This does make Budibase apps more mobile responsive than Appsmith ones. Links to comments by other HN users [1] [2]

2. Appsmith is a more powerful platform with a high ceiling and low floor for entry. You can build simple apps quickly by auto-generating them. In Appsmith, you can write full-fledged JavaScript anywhere on the platform. This ensures all your business logic is always expressed correctly. You can map over data, merge data from different data sources, trigger conditional workflows, and conditionally control widget properties all with a few snippets of code.

Few more feature differences:

1. Appsmith has more UI components and support for 100+ charts

2. Built in git sync for version control

3. Real-time commenting and real-time editing(WIP) to enable collaboration between users

4. Appsmith has organizations/workspaces to help freelancers manage multiple projects

5. Error logger and linter to debug issues

[0] https://github.com/appsmithorg/appsmith

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28991242

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28304152

That's cool. Have known the founder and liked their product and seemed relevant hence suggested.

Do check out Appsmith (https://github.com/appsmithorg/appsmith), I work here and we're an open source low code framework for building internal applications. We haven't really thought about the accounting use case, but now that you mention it, it could be super interesting (we've ofcourse had a lot of users building for HR, IT, Sales & Marketing use cases, other than the support).

Btw, on an unrelated note, I'm Kashmiri too :)