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• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2021)
  news.ycombinator.com | 2021-07-01

  Lowdefy | Technical Evangelist / DevRel | Full-time | South Africa | REMOTE | https://lowdefy.com

  We are looking for a dynamic individual who can help us establish, build, and accelerate our community growth.

  Lowdefy is an open-source, self-hosted, low-code framework to build internal tools, web apps, admin panels, BI dashboards, workflows, and CRUD apps with YAML or JSON.

  https://github.com/lowdefy/lowdefy

  The ideal candidate will have some experience in developing web apps and working with data, but the primary skills for this position will be communication and content creation.

  See the full job description at: https://github.com/lowdefy/lowdefy/discussions/653

  If you are interested please reach out to gvw(_at_)lowdefy.com

• Welcome to the Lowdefy subreddit 🚀
  reddit.com/r/lowdefy | 2021-06-27

  Github Discussions will remain the primary communication channel for new feature, version and issue discussions. So we might every now and then ask to move a discussion there to improve discoverability.

• Ask HN: Anyone built a biz with no-code tools? SaaS, productized service etc.?
  news.ycombinator.com | 2021-06-22

  We are! We started Lowdefy [0], co-founder here shameless plug, by building apps for customers. Our model is to build their back-office apps for them with no up-font dev charge, we just agree on a monthly fee. This monthly fee includes any changes and reporting in the future at no additional charge, as long as the scope remains the same. And they own the data in their database of choice.

  The model is not perfect and does not work well for every type of process, but we have a few very satisfied customers. Just enough success to slowly grow our business and buy us enough free time to build and improve Lowdefy.

  Currently it's working really well, like one gear turns the next. The apps we sell help us test and improve our low-code platform. The more apps we sell the more we invest in our platform and as a result all our apps get better, more feature rich and easier to maintain. Hopefully next, by building an open-source community around Lowdefy we can accelerate this cycle.

  [0] - https://github.com/lowdefy/lowdefy

• Lowdefy Is Hiring – A Technical Evangelist and an Implementation Engineer
  news.ycombinator.com | 2021-06-22
• Every idea I come up with already exists, and is usually cheaper/better/faster than my idea
  reddit.com/r/Entrepreneur | 2021-06-20

  In tho context Selling does not only mean transfer of money, like for me with Lowdefy https://github.com/lowdefy/lowdefy it just means people are using it and finding it useful enough to spend time building with it.

• Why low-code development tools will not result in 80% of software being created by citizen developers by 2024
  reddit.com/r/programming | 2021-06-16
• Self-Hosted Documentation
  reddit.com/r/selfhosted | 2021-06-16
• Cue, an open-source data validation language
  news.ycombinator.com | 2021-06-14

  We've been building dashboards in YAML for a while now using Lowdefy - https://github.com/lowdefy/lowdefy

  It is very flexible. Will publish more examples soon!

• 80% of tech could be built outside IT by 2024, thanks to low-code tools
  news.ycombinator.com | 2021-06-14

  - DSL files work with all dev tools :: Devs want to use their favorite tools.

  [0] - https://github.com/lowdefy/lowdefy

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  With all this said, you can optimize with tools as much as you like - most dev productivity is always lost in building the wrong things.

• Store HTML form submissions in google sheets.
  reddit.com/r/web_design | 2021-06-13

  Disclaimer: I am one of the creators of this project, but you could use Lowdefy. It’s an open-source low-code platform that makes this kind of thing easy. The project in the tutorial is actually a webform that saves to a Google Sheet.

• We made Lowdefy - An open-source, self-hosted, low-code framework to easily make web apps, admin panels, BI dashboards, workflows, and CRUD apps with YAML or JSON.
  reddit.com/r/javascript | 2021-06-12

  See https://docs.lowdefy.com/lowdefy-schema for more details on templating and https://github.com/lowdefy/lowdefy/tree/main/packages/docs for the docs Lowdefy code.

• Show HN: Open-source alternative to Retool, Internal.io, etc.
  news.ycombinator.com | 2021-06-07
• Ask HN: What are some tools / libraries you built yourself?
  news.ycombinator.com | 2021-05-16

  We’ve created https://lowdefy.com and open-sourced it.

  Over the past 5 years we’ve been building custom B2B and back office web applications. Nothing in the market had the level of customization we required both from a technical and commercial angle. So decided to standardize how we “configure” apps into a platform.

  We did this by designing a schema by which to define web apps which is easy to read, write and understand, and works well with normal developer tools like editors, git and CI. While keeping it self hosted and even server-less.

  Lowdefy has enabled us to rapidly deploy custom business apps like BI, CRM to MRPs.

  Check it out :) https://github.com/lowdefy/lowdefy

• Ask HN: Best (Low-/No-Code) Solution for Simple Web-Based Database Front Ends
  news.ycombinator.com | 2021-04-01

  Hi, We've built Lowdefy [0] for exactly this reason. It it is open-source, low-code and self hosted. On our team we have data analysts and implementation engineers (non-developers) creating apps in Lowdefy. With Lowdefy I would say that the minimum tech expertise required needs to be someone who can learn to write data queries.

  We are currently working on SQL support and should have the first SQL connectors out next week. Please give me a shout if we can be of any assistance! gvw [at] lowdefy.com

  [0] - https://lowdefy.com

• Web UIs for backend devs - Build web apps and internal tools in YAML with Lowdefy.
  reddit.com/r/Python | 2021-03-19