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Top 3 JavaScript datasette Projects
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SurveyJS
Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.
Hah, Softbank isn't the goal here!
I realized that Datasette is the first project of my entire career where if I was still working on it in 15 years time I wouldn't feel bored yet. There's just SO MUCH scope for interesting applications of the core idea.
As such, I want to work on it for decades. But it's lonely working on it alone (the community around it has been growing and is delightful, but it's not the same as having a full-time team.)
So the question I'm trying to answer is how to make the project financially sustainable in the long-run - not just for myself, but so I can pay for a team to work on it with me.
There are plenty of other examples of open source projects that have turned SaaS hosting into a sustainable business model - WordPress and GitLab are just two of the best examples. It feels like it's a reasonably well-trodden path.
Plus... I want people to be able to use my software. Currently to use Datasette as an individual you either have to "pip" or "brew" install it, or you can try the macOS Electron app - https://datasette.io/desktop - but I want newsrooms to be able to use it to collaborate on data. And most newsrooms aren't well equipped to configure a Linux server.
So I realized that a hosted SaaS version can solve two issues at once: it can help the audience I care about actually benefit from the value of the software so far, and it provides a reasonably realistic path to financial sustainability for the project as a whole.
And yeah, I'd also like to make a ton of money out of it myself too!
This is a (fantastic!) project by Simon Willison, co-creator of the Django framework and creator of Datasette.
If you are wondering why the collection is so small, it would appear from the commit history that Simon only adds museums that he has visited himself.
https://github.com/simonw/museums/commits/main
NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
JavaScript datasette related posts
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SpatiaLite: Library extending SQLite to support Spatial SQL capabilities
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Niche Museums
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Bing: “I will not harm you unless you harm me first”
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Learn Postgres at the Playground
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Show HN: Tdog – Download Stripe to SQLite
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This Week in Python
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Show HN: Stripe Sigma alternative: tdog – SQLite – Datasette
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Index
What are some of the best open-source datasette projects in JavaScript? This list will help you:
| Project | Stars | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | datasette-app | 115 |
| 2 | museums | 45 |
| 3 | datasette-stripe | 20 |
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