Comment on This Week in Self-Hosted (12 January 2024)

• machinin@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Out of curiosity, what do you use it for?

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  • krash@lemmy.ml ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    All kinds of stuff. I use it when I need a way to structure my data:

    • I use it to keep track of software / libs that are of interest, what they are an alternative to. See example here: ibb.co/ncsdt0W
    • I’ve also tried to recreate the functionality of a personal relational management (a la MonicaHQ, or per this post: medium.com/…/my-homegrown-personal-crm-87dffbcf54…) but found it to be an overengineered solution.
    • I also used it to interact and store data through my python apps, to avoid dealing with it directly in python.
    • You can also use it as a Kanban board
    • Also, I’ve been trying to use it as an excel replacement - which is an overengineered solution but you get impeccable dataquality.

    Nocodb is a bit wonky, but it is quite easy to work with (front- and backend) and since everything is in the database format you choose - you’re in control of how you want your data.

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    • machinin@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Thanks, this is very helpful.

      So, is it kind of a replacement for MS Access, except a non-relation db?

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• savedbythezsh@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I don’t remember exactly, it was around 2 years ago. It was easy to set up, but I found the feature set to be lacking some essentials, and I ran into a couple of big bugs. Couldn’t really replace my airtable setup yet. Happy to give it another try though!

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