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0 pointsrnavi3y ago0 comments

Founder of Noco here - Congrats on your HN launch.

I see at the current state there is a massive difference between us and the initial launch of Plato.

We do support multiple databases and there are backlinks available with actual value in a spreadsheet cell (I see that isnt supported in Plato's links). By reading about virtual columns I felt its like a formula column but its not (between I don't see formula isn't supported yet in Plato). Only one of our user had the virtual column request before.

Mainly I see Plato does not YET support automatic Rest APIs for the databases, webhooks, grid view, gallery view, form view, webhooks, upload csv/json/excel, formulas, SQLite, SQL server, docker, executables, open-source and so many other features. Having said that Im sure these will be looked into in coming years.

Really happy to see simple and powerful tools in this space were lacking and we are all trying to fill the big void here.

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deepspace3y ago

> Founder of Noco here

Thanks for a great product! I wrote tens of thousands of lines of PHP 20 years ago to achieve this kind of functionality, but I ran out of steam as a solo developer, and I could not find anyone else interesting in helping with development at the time.

After installing Noco, I feel like I ran into a long-lost friend, albeit one with a facelift and a complete style make-over.

mgummelt3y ago

Gallery view? Where we're going, we won't need gallery view.

petilon3y ago

What is the point of REST API for the database? Why can't an application go directly to the database and run SQL?

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