APITable open-source 500k lines code, the best Airtable alternative

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  • apitable

    🚀🎉📚 APITable, an API-oriented low-code platform for building collaborative apps and better than all other Airtable open-source alternatives.

    (A bit sad with the dubious marketing; hopefully they can get around to remove it or finish it with real testimonials as it obviously generates a negative reaction that completely overshadows the actual fairly impressive product.)

    Did anyone get the "Gitpod Online Demo" to work?

    https://gitpod.io/#https://github.com/apitable/apitable

    Takes well over 2 minutes to start up and then asks for a username/password which is written under installation: [email protected]apitable.com / Apitable2022

    As far as I can see it is a somewhat buggy but interesting and comprehensive product. Instead of relying on Gitpod for demo, I would buy some dedicated, faster hosting and make a demo that didn't require a login.

  • mathesar

    Web application providing an intuitive user experience to databases.

    We're building one – our first release is coming early 2023: https://github.com/centerofci/mathesar

  • Appwrite

    Appwrite - The Open Source Firebase alternative introduces iOS support . Appwrite is an open source backend server that helps you build native iOS applications much faster with realtime APIs for authentication, databases, files storage, cloud functions and much more!

  • sanity

    Sanity Studio – Rapidly configure content workspaces powered by structured content

  • appsmith

    Low code project to build admin panels, internal tools, and dashboards. Integrates with 15+ databases and any API.

  • Strapi

    🚀 Strapi is the leading open-source headless CMS. It’s 100% JavaScript, fully customizable and developer-first.

  • nocodb

    🔥 🔥 🔥 Open Source Airtable Alternative

  • KeystoneJS

    The most powerful headless CMS for Node.js — built with GraphQL and React

  • InfluxDB

    Access the most powerful time series database as a service. Ingest, store, & analyze all types of time series data in a fully-managed, purpose-built database. Keep data forever with low-cost storage and superior data compression.

  • Directus

    The Modern Data Stack 🐰 — Directus is an instant REST+GraphQL API and intuitive no-code data collaboration app for any SQL database.

  • Corteza

    Low-code platform

    https://cortezaproject.org/

    The above are only the open source ones with a descent number of GitHub stars. I can't think of another time when I found so much competition in one product category. Or am I mistaken and this is not special?

  • budibase

    Budibase is an open-source low code platform that helps you build internal tools in minutes 🚀

    Is it just me or is this category of product exploding right now?

    Here, a list of similar tools that let you easily make a data model and generate some descent UI from it ?

    https://budibase.com/

  • illa-builder

    🚀 Retool open-source alternative, with low-code UI components and support for multiple data resources.

    There's also https://github.com/illacloud/illa-builder.

    Only one I have found so far that's not AGPL or open core.

  • gitpod

    Gitpod automates the provisioning of ready-to-code cloud development environments.

    (A bit sad with the dubious marketing; hopefully they can get around to remove it or finish it with real testimonials as it obviously generates a negative reaction that completely overshadows the actual fairly impressive product.)

    Did anyone get the "Gitpod Online Demo" to work?

    https://gitpod.io/#https://github.com/apitable/apitable

    Takes well over 2 minutes to start up and then asks for a username/password which is written under installation: [email protected] / Apitable2022

    As far as I can see it is a somewhat buggy but interesting and comprehensive product. Instead of relying on Gitpod for demo, I would buy some dedicated, faster hosting and make a demo that didn't require a login.

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