Hi, I am one of the creators of Rowy. With Rowy, we aim to bring to you an Airtable-like experience to manage your database with granular access controls at table and column levels to collaborate with your teammates, but that's just the start and it can do so much more than that. With Rowy you can build your MVP and continue to scale on the GCP/Firebase stack, write cloud functions effortlessly right in your browser. You can also connect to your favourite third party tools via our ready-made flexible extensions or build your own. Use any NPM packages or APIs.<p>Love for your to give it a spin and share your feedback.<p>LIVE demo: <a href="https://demo.rowy.io/" rel="nofollow">https://demo.rowy.io/</a><p>Join our community on Discord: <a href="https://discord.com/invite/B8yAD5PDX4" rel="nofollow">https://discord.com/invite/B8yAD5PDX4</a><p>Github: <a href="https://github.com/rowyio/rowy" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/rowyio/rowy</a>
Another open source airtable alternative on the top of HN this year.<p>NocoDB (<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27303783" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27303783</a>)<p>BaseRow (<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26448985" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26448985</a>)<p>Any idea why these projects are so popular in HN? What are the big pain points / problems these address?<p>None have template libraries like Airtable or Smartsheet do, so it’s hard to get a sense of the use cases these tools specialize in.
Worth mentioning that Google also has an AirTables clone. It's in Beta but pretty usable right now. And they say the Beta was succesfull and will stay available until a full launch is done in Google Cloud.<p><a href="https://tables.area120.google.com/about" rel="nofollow">https://tables.area120.google.com/about</a>
This looks awesome, thanks for building this! I really like how it's hosted on serverless stuff and therefore we can use it for long-running personal projects and MVPs.
Is this really an Airtable alternative? They seem to describe themselves as a admin frontend for Firebase. Obviously there is some overlap with Airtable, but a web frontend for Firebase is much more interesting to me!
I hated Airtable because it was proprietary system that I could not modify or host myself. Rowy doesn't seem like an improvement because it only connects to Google Firestore, a proprietary and centralized service.<p>Realistically I just want to use PostgreSQL and an open source UI on top, like NocoDB or Baserow.<p>But hey, maybe Rowy will be a cold glass of water for those stuck in Firebase hell.
Others have already mentioned BaseRow and NocoDB but there’s another entrant in this space:<p><a href="https://firetable.io/" rel="nofollow">https://firetable.io/</a><p>[EDIT] just noticed, Firetable seems to have been productized into Rowy! Site is still up but github project redirects to rowyio/rowy<p>Can someone from AntlerVC talk about the move/reposition? Is someone from the team running with the idea?
The advantage of the firebase backend and open source is if you scale to something really big, you know what Google's infrastructure and pricing is so you are not relying on a startup to stick around or scale up or support your growth etc.<p>That's great.<p>What is the business model? Services?
Hmmm, it does not work for me as it redirects to /setup and then it goest to <a href="https://rowy.app/404" rel="nofollow">https://rowy.app/404</a> and that's it!