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How do you manage data easily?

I find myself many times spending more time to create an admin panel for managing the data rather than in developing the rest of the app. I really wish there was a quick solution for that. 🙃

How do you manage the users' data? Are you using any specific tools?

on December 18, 2020
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    Rails admin, activeadmin, or administrate all look promising. Or the built in Django in if using that.

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    Agreed with many others here. Either drop down and use the DB directly, if you don't have access to a ready-made admin panel (ActiveAdmin, RailsAdmin, etc in Rails, Django Admin in Django).

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    There are tools like internal, retool, supabase , foresr admin and the like.
    There should be a simple tool for this, I wonder why no one has gone after this

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      I like Retool, but it still looks too complex.

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        have you looked at airtable+zapier?
        How much would you pay if there was an airtable like solution for this?

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          We built a tool called Sync Inc that turns Airtable into a Postgres DB. You can manage the data in Airtable but access and query the data with SQL.

          https://SyncInc.so

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    Postgres. If you've seriously got data to be managed, use a database. It's what they do!

    Just build the admin panel later when it's clear you're regularly repeating certain queries.

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    I just use Django. It comes with pretty good admin panel out of the box.