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24 alternatives to Minimal, no-JS web forum software
Hello HN! I've found my SQL knowledge to be lacking, so I made a project that uses SQLite as a backend. As it is intended for self-hosting I aim to make it easy to set up and maintain. Getting it up & running takes no more than a few commands (bar setting up a proxy such as nginx, which is out of scope). I've set up a "demo" site at https://forum.agreper.com/ if you want to try out the UI.
Minimal is a self-hosted web forum software built with SQLite that requires no JavaScript in the browser. Designed for easy setup and maintenance, it can be deployed with just a few commands, making it suitable for… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Minimal, no-JS web forum software launched in 2022; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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I am happy to announce my minimalist zero-dependency web framework, Minum, is out of beta. http://github.com/byronka/minum You will be hard-pressed to find another modern project as obsessively minimalistic. Other frameworks will claim simplicity and minimalism and then, casually, mention they are built on a multitude of libraries. This follows self-imposed constraints, predicated on a belief that smaller and lighter is long-term better. Caveat emptor: This is a project by and for developers who know and like programming (rather than, let us say, configuring). It is…
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Zeroqode▲441Build your app up to 10x faster with no-code app templates
2017 · zeroqode.com · its alternatives →
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Open source, dev-friendly and powered by GraphQL and React
2019 · webiny.com · its alternatives →
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Zeroqode 2.0▲286Everything you need to build apps without code.
2018 · zeroqode.com · its alternatives →
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i'm building this minimalistic framework mostly for myself. it's really just a project template + a tiny library that adds file based routes to express and persistent task queues. i wanted something that: 1. is a single long-running process to deploy and manage (thanks sqlite!) 2. has type-safe database queries and type-safe server rendered React-like `.tsx` components 3. addresses 80% of common full-stack concerns like emails, task queues and routing 4. doesn't have a frontend build process curious to hear what you think!
2024 · plainweb.dev · its alternatives →
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Hi everyone! I wanted to share my analytics app with you. This project came from requirements to track certain very frequent events. I found that the cost to do it on a regular analytics product was much more than i was willing to pay. Secondly, I also wanted to use as few resources as possible. So I thought it may be a good idea to create something that may be useful for myself (and hopefully others). I have been able to track a great number of events with this using ~20 MB of storage and memory which is incredible. I have been really impressed by golang as a language and as an ecosystem…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hello HN! My name is Paras and I am building this project called Slashbase. It's an open-source collaborative IDE for databases in browser. Connect to your database, browse data, run a bunch of queries or share queries within your team, right from your browser. Works with two types of databases: PostgreSQL and MongoDB. It's written in Golang and Nextjs React Framework and runs as a single binary. Features: - Cloud based: Setup on your server. Works in browser. - Easy to use: with minimal interface it is simple to use. - Collaborative: Works with your teams. Easy sharing queries within team.…
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Zeroqode Backend▲150Deploy your backend without code in a few days
2018 · zeroqode.com · its alternatives →
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First, I'm by no mean a programmer. Second, I am reading HN for years, just registered to make this public and see if it can be useful for someone. I have nothing to gain monetary. A while ago, I decided that no blogging system was simple enough and I looked for a small wiki to use as a CMS/blog. Found WikWiki on C2.com and I mixed it with some basic Markdown syntax, a minimal template and added password protection. The result is a single php file, no database and no dependencies. Code is a mess, not modulable, probably wrong in so many ways, but it can probably used by some as personal…
2022 · mindwi.se · its alternatives →
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Hey Hacker News! I wanted to share the open source project I have been working on during the last year: SQLPage, a tool to build small web applications entirely in SQL. Building web applications with just SQL isn't as crazy as it seems. Most simple applications can be expressed declaratively as just data queries that fill pre-defined web components. I'd love to hear your feedback and thoughts on it. Would you potentially use it? How can it be improved? Website: https://sql.ophir.dev/ Github: https://github.com/lovasoa/SQLpage Example app:…
2023 · sql.ophir.dev · its alternatives →
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Free browser-based SQL editor powered by DuckDB. Query and visualize CSV, JSON, Parquet and Arrow files locally or from remote URLs. No installation required.
2024 · sql-workbench.com · its alternatives →
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Minimal boilerplate and configuration for the development of firebase websites with react & es6 - Jon-Biz/simple-static-react-firebase
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Graphweaver is an open-source GraphQL API Server that can connect many data sources to create a single API. Create a headless CMS, API Gateway, BaaS or use it as a BFF.
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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NO LONGER MAINTAINED! A tool for serving simple websites, JSON APIs and static files directly from a SQLite database - j4mie/sqlsite
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2013 · blog.tutorspree.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN! I’d like to share with you my project: JSDB. Two months ago I had this thought while reviewing a PR on a web application. What if I didn’t have to write code to communicate with my backend or database? It would be fun to just use arrays and objects like you normally do in javascript and have things magically save. That weekend I hacked together something that used proxies and classes to ‘magically’ send data to your backend when you assign or access properties in an object or array. Using the same API you already know. This means you can save data like this: items[x] = {a:2,b:false}…
2022 · javascriptdb.com · its alternatives →
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Discuss about building startups and products without code
2018 · forum.zeroqode.com · its alternatives →
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A minimalistic Fluent SQL API for Java built with one compilation unit aimed to resemble the code to your original SQL code
2013 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2020 · app.swaggerhub.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, we're Eric and Dean, creators of SchemafreeSQL. Its roots go back to an on-line Web App Development Environment we developed back in 1999. It was comprised of an IDE, Web Server, Object Store, Virtual File System, Template System, and polyglot (Java, JavaScript, and Python). Of course, we named it “.OS”. Then we ended up dropping it. But that's a story for another time. It was the ease of use of the Object Store from .OS that we really missed, which brings us back to SchemafreeSQL. It provides an enhanced API to your SQL Database which allows it to function as a Schemaless…
2022 · schemafreesql.com · its alternatives →
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I have written a from-scratch minimalist Java web framework, called Minum. I'd like to get your thoughts. The driving goal has been achieving characterics of plainness, frugality, performance, maintainability, testability, and ease of use. It has zero dependencies other than Java's SDK, yet provides a web server, routing, authentication, testing, logging, templating, HTML parsing, and a database, in 3800 lines of code, compiling to a 150k binary. It currently supports a web application in production. There are also example projects demonstrating its use, linked in the documentation. As the…
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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db-ui▲12Hey! I needed a simple to use self-hosted web ui for managing db data. pgadmin is pretty complicated, adminer is pretty old-looking. Also, the stuff I need to do often feels doable by AI so I would like to have it integrated too. So I created my own. Currently works with postgres only (as this is the only DB I use) and connects to groq (they've a free plan and I didn't look further), not against adding alternatives if there's some demand for it. Dockerized, also pretty simple to run from source (implemented as a next.js app).
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, I'm Dean, the non-technical co-founder of SchemafreeSQL. We released our beta version about a year ago. You can see the HN Post here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30291592 Today I am pleased to announce our initial release of our hosted SFSQL offering. A major concern from the HN Beta feedback we received was our longevity. Being a hosted database solution I can see why. We took that to heart and re-engineered our offering. We de-risked it by minimizing the amount of infrastructure under our management, fly.io manages customer's dedicated SFSQL endpoints,…
2023 · schemafreesql.com · its alternatives →
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