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Giorgos Kontopoulos 👀

What part of the stack are you providing to developers ? Backend ? I am having also trouble understanding how things fit together. Perhaps give us some more concrete examples of how one would use your platform so we can give you the feedback you need.

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Budibase

Hi Giorgos. We really appreciate your comment. Thank you.

Stack:
All javascript. Nodejs web server. For front end, we will be framework agnostic, as we want anyone to use whatever framework they like to write custom ui. Currently, the only library dependency of the core framework is lodash.

It will also be mostly Database agnostic... any key value or document store can be used (including file storage). Our hosted version will use Azure Blob Storage

How does it fit together:
With budibase, we aim to cover... Data Model design, Data Validation Rules, Search, Data Object Relationships, User Management include Configurable user levels/roles, Data aggregation (stats like sums, counts etc)... all this configured using a user interface.

Then, we want to be able to generate no-code UI for all this - but allowing you to add your own UI where you need it, using the framework of your choice.

Use Cases:
Budi can help build most web apps (depending on scale). It's particularly fitting for small apps and MVPs. The aim is to take away most of the backend and pain points with transforming a SaaS idea into an app.

I hope this answers your questions.

We will open source the builder so if you're interested please signup.

Have a great day.

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Giorgos Kontopoulos 👀

This is interesting endeanour, I believe there should be other services like this but I am not an expert on javascript related stacks. What does it set it apart from other similar services ?

I would be very interested in beta testing if you need beta testers.