mohanarpit

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by mohanarpit 3y ago
Founder of Appsmith ( https://appsmith.com ) here. This is very unfortunate news. I have a lot of respect for the founders & the product. In fact I even used Airplane for a few side projects in the past. It's sad to see t
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by mohanarpit 3y ago
Because a framework with components is just basic UI building blocks. There's a lot more that goes in building a full-fledged app. Layouts, page design, dynamic data, business logic etc. A low code builder like Appsmith helps devs orch
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by mohanarpit 3y ago
Personally, I think commercial open source (COSS) technologies are pretty much the only solution to this problem. This way you aren't beholden to a company stopping their service and leaving you on your own. COSS ensures the project is
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by mohanarpit 3y ago
Completely agree. No code is great for simple CRUD apps but unfortunately, anything reasonably complex requires code. This is why we ended up building Appsmith which is an open source "low code" application builder. You can write
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Fast Forward Decision Making(theengineeringmanager.com)
1 points by mohanarpit 3y ago|0 comments
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January 1, 1970: The Day the Software Industry was Created(jldavis.substack.com)
1 points by mohanarpit 3y ago|0 comments
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by mohanarpit 3y ago
I’m the author of the article and the CTO of Appsmith, an open-source low-code application builder platform. Since Appsmith is primarily a self-hosted software, we decided to forego Docker’s suggested best practices of single container, sin
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by mohanarpit 3y ago
As the CTO and co-founder of Appsmith, I wanted to share our experience of choosing the right architecture for the product. In this blog post, I talk about our decision to go with a modular monolithic architecture, and how it benefits our u
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Our Journey from SaaS to OSS: Monoliths vs. Microservices(appsmith.com)
2 points by mohanarpit 3y ago|1 comments
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by mohanarpit 3y ago
Hey zackkatz, I'm Arpit, the CTO of Appsmith. Thank you so much for surfacing this Github issue. I know it's quite an old one and we still haven't provided a fix. I'll bump this up internally on our priority list. Btw, s
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by mohanarpit 4y ago
Co-founder of Appsmith here. Thanks a lot for mentioning our project. We love Typescript and chose it to take advantage of static type checking. At Apspmith, since we are a small team, we wanted to reduce management overheads and opted for
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by mohanarpit 4y ago
Hey, lead maintainer of Appsmith here. Thank you so much for the kind words. :) We are currently working on improving the UI so that you can build more modern-looking applications. Is there anything that you think we should improve/add
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Appsmith has a native GraphQL integration for building internal-tools faster(appsmith.com)
4 points by mohanarpit 4y ago|1 comments
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by mohanarpit 4y ago
I'm the creator of Appsmith, an open source internal apps builder. We just launched native GraphQL support in Appsmith. With this addition you can write GraphQL queries with variables faster in a neat two-pane layout. You can expect to
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by mohanarpit 4y ago
Thanks for using Appsmith! Appreciate the kind words. :) If you ever need help in building more complex use cases, please reach out to me at arpit [at] appsmith.com. Will be glad to help in any way that I can.
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by mohanarpit 4y ago
Disclaimer: I'm the creator of Appsmith. Thanks for evaluating the product. I appreciate it. The reason we allow users to write raw SQL within Appsmith is because it is geared to build dashboards and admin panels in scenarios where you
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by mohanarpit 4y ago
Disclaimer: I'm the creator of Appsmith. The primary reason for creating Appsmith was because, as a backend engineer, I didn't enjoy mucking around with HTML/CSS just to build admin panels. Hence, we created a way to build su
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by mohanarpit 4y ago
Creator of Appsmith here. First of all, thank you for trying the product and sharing your feedback. I appreciate it. While you can modify the source code to remove the watermark, you can also upgrade to the paid edition which helps keep the
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by mohanarpit 4y ago
Hey, creator of Appsmith here. Thanks for trying out the product. To answer your first question; yes, it's possible to build dynamic apps that can countdown the seconds to zero or build a timer dynamically. The sample application: htt
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by mohanarpit 4y ago
Hey, I'm the creator of Appsmith. Thank you for trying Appsmith & apologies that you had a poor experience with the product. Can I ask if you were pulling a lot of data from your databases to populate the UI? I'm asking becaus
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by mohanarpit 4y ago
Disclaimer: I'm the creator of Appsmith. First of all, thanks for trying out Appsmith and doing a security review. The link you pasted is actually an out-dated installation script that we used to use only for tracking if a user is faci
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by mohanarpit 4y ago
I think this is a very interesting concept. Will definitely shorten the REPL cycle from reporting a bug to recreating it in the code. I can see this being useful in QA and staging environments. Looking forward to the self hosted version for
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Coordination Headwind in Organizations Explained(komoroske.com)
2 points by mohanarpit 5y ago|0 comments
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Useful design patterns for refactoring code bases(refactoring.guru)
2 points by mohanarpit 5y ago|0 comments
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by mohanarpit 5y ago
Hi HN! I’m Arpit, a co-founder of Appsmith ( https://www.appsmith.com ) along with Abhishek and Nikhil. Appsmith is an open source project to build simple CRUD apps, custom admin panels, and complex internal tools. Some users cal
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by mohanarpit 5y ago
Hey kmwr, I'm the maintainer of Appsmith. The install script downloads and configures the docker-compose.yml file underneath the hood. It also allows users to configure SSL, setup encryption keys etc which would otherwise need to be do
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How to build a Calendly clone in 30 mins(blog.appsmith.com)
3 points by mohanarpit 6y ago|1 comments
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Refrem: Jar to Binary Compiler(ntoper.substack.com)
3 points by mohanarpit 6y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: Often have you had to re-write a legacy front end application
4 points by mohanarpit 8y ago|3 comments
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by mohanarpit 8y ago
We've used Retool extensively for multiple products at our startup. It's a fantastic tool that's gotten us out of trouble many times. David & Anthony are amazing founders as well! If you ever need to build an internal too

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