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This Week in Self-Hosted (12 January 2024) (selfh.st)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I've been using it for a while without any noticeable problems. What issues did you run into?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Out of curiosity, what do you use it for?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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: https://ibb.co/ncsdt0W
I've also tried to recreate the functionality of a personal relational management (a la MonicaHQ, or per this post: https://medium.com/@rklau/my-homegrown-personal-crm-87dffbcf54d7) 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Thanks, this is very helpful.

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 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!