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Ask HN: Web framewwork for non-programmers

1 pointsby komapcover 14 years ago
I need a solution for small scale data base and management tools, for something like 10 users, tens of tables and thousands of records, with simple forms to view, search and update it.<p>Although I am a programmer, the application will (hopefully) be developed / maintained by my wife for her medical laboratory, who had never developed software.<p>Requirements: * Free, better open-source * Suitable for non-tech people * Zero or almost zero programming (i. e. writing code) * Preferably not PHP-based, because I dislike it and don't want to learn it.<p>In MS-DOS I used something like [[Magic Software Enterprises]] Later I used Access for similar goals, Later, like 10 years ago, I would use Delphi + any free DB 3 years ago I thought web dot-net solution (C# + DB) is best.<p>What about today? Is there any web-based development tools that can meet my goals? I tried to check about Drupal, Google Spreadsheets + forms, Ruby on Rails but was unsatisfied.

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nudgeover 14 years ago
Try Zoho Creator: <a href="http://www.zoho.com/creator/" rel="nofollow">http://www.zoho.com/creator/</a>