[ANN] success story: ApptiveGrid
I wanted to write this for a very long time now…so finally…I’m very proud to announce a new success story: ApptiveGrid
ApptiveGrid is a SaaS tool to digitalize and automatize business processes.
On the one hand ApptiveGrid is visual database that enables you to model your database via web frontend. At the same time this model is available via REST API.
On top of the data model a form creator turns your model into a form that you can send e.g. via email to inquire data from other people…
On the other hand ApptiveGrid is a workflow system where you can define your work flow in the web frontend and connect to events. These events are either internal (resulting from a change in your data model) or external where you can use web hooks to kick of work flows.
With the combination of both parts ApptiveGrid is able to solve many of modern digital workflows. It enables to make it for low cost and in almost no time which are two pretty good reasons to use it. If you want to use it just visit: http://www.apptivegrid.de. ApptiveGrid provides a start plan at no cost where most of the functionalities are available. If you have additional needs just write me. For the people in the pharo community I’m sure we can provide a bit more on top.
About the tech stack:
- The business backend of ApptiveGrid is 100% pharo
- It uses https://github.com/svenvc/zinc components for the HTTP frontend
- and https://github.com/ApptiveGrid/Soil as the persistence solution.
- Each user has its own database (an empty soil database is 24kb on disk, could be made even approx. 5kb). There are over 3100 databases in the system right now
- one pharo image holds multiple soil databases open and provides memory caching for the objects
- routing of requests is done with haproxy connection persistence
- the web frontend is made with Vue.js and a pharo library that we transpile to JS with PharoJS
If you are interested you can also watch my ESUG videos at https://www.youtube.com/@esugboard. All talks in the last 2 years were about ApptiveGrid
If you have question, don’t hesitate to ask, I’m happy to answer!
Norbert
That's one cool success story. Kudos!
Noury
On Dec 12 2023, at 1:02 pm, Norbert Hartl norbert@hartl.name wrote:
I wanted to write this for a very long time now…so finally…I’m very proud to announce a new success story: ApptiveGrid
ApptiveGrid is a SaaS tool to digitalize and automatize business processes.
On the one hand ApptiveGrid is visual database that enables you to model your database via web frontend. At the same time this model is available via REST API.
On top of the data model a form creator turns your model into a form that you can send e.g. via email to inquire data from other people…
On the other hand ApptiveGrid is a workflow system where you can define your work flow in the web frontend and connect to events. These events are either internal (resulting from a change in your data model) or external where you can use web hooks to kick of work flows.
With the combination of both parts ApptiveGrid is able to solve many of modern digital workflows. It enables to make it for low cost and in almost no time which are two pretty good reasons to use it. If you want to use it just visit: http://www.apptivegrid.de. ApptiveGrid provides a start plan at no cost where most of the functionalities are available. If you have additional needs just write me. For the people in the pharo community I’m sure we can provide a bit more on top.
About the tech stack:
- The business backend of ApptiveGrid is 100% pharo
- It uses https://github.com/svenvc/zinc components for the HTTP frontend
- and https://github.com/ApptiveGrid/Soil as the persistence solution.
- Each user has its own database (an empty soil database is 24kb on disk, could be made even approx. 5kb). There are over 3100 databases in the system right now
- one pharo image holds multiple soil databases open and provides memory caching for the objects
- routing of requests is done with haproxy connection persistence
- the web frontend is made with Vue.js and a pharo library that we transpile to JS with PharoJS
If you are interested you can also watch my ESUG videos at https://www.youtube.com/@esugboard. All talks in the last 2 years were about ApptiveGrid
If you have question, don’t hesitate to ask, I’m happy to answer!
Norbert
Yes, this is a really nice project, the front end as well.
It reminds me a bit of FileMaker, but for the web.
I am hoping you have commercial success with ApptiveGrid !
On 12 Dec 2023, at 13:02, Norbert Hartl norbert@hartl.name wrote:
I wanted to write this for a very long time now…so finally…I’m very proud to announce a new success story: ApptiveGrid
ApptiveGrid is a SaaS tool to digitalize and automatize business processes.
On the one hand ApptiveGrid is visual database that enables you to model your database via web frontend. At the same time this model is available via REST API.
<Bildschirmfoto 2023-12-12 um 12.39.29.png>
On top of the data model a form creator turns your model into a form that you can send e.g. via email to inquire data from other people…
<Bildschirmfoto 2023-12-12 um 12.40.48.png>
On the other hand ApptiveGrid is a workflow system where you can define your work flow in the web frontend and connect to events. These events are either internal (resulting from a change in your data model) or external where you can use web hooks to kick of work flows.
<Bildschirmfoto 2023-12-12 um 12.44.10.png>
With the combination of both parts ApptiveGrid is able to solve many of modern digital workflows. It enables to make it for low cost and in almost no time which are two pretty good reasons to use it. If you want to use it just visit: http://www.apptivegrid.de. ApptiveGrid provides a start plan at no cost where most of the functionalities are available. If you have additional needs just write me. For the people in the pharo community I’m sure we can provide a bit more on top.
About the tech stack:
- The business backend of ApptiveGrid is 100% pharo
- It uses https://github.com/svenvc/zinc components for the HTTP frontend
- and https://github.com/ApptiveGrid/Soil as the persistence solution.
- Each user has its own database (an empty soil database is 24kb on disk, could be made even approx. 5kb). There are over 3100 databases in the system right now
- one pharo image holds multiple soil databases open and provides memory caching for the objects
- routing of requests is done with haproxy connection persistence
- the web frontend is made with Vue.js and a pharo library that we transpile to JS with PharoJS
If you are interested you can also watch my ESUG videos at https://www.youtube.com/@esugboard. All talks in the last 2 years were about ApptiveGrid
If you have question, don’t hesitate to ask, I’m happy to answer!
Norbert
That's really great!
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Subject: [Pharo-dev] Re: [ANN] success story: ApptiveGrid
Yes, this is a really nice project, the front end as well.
It reminds me a bit of FileMaker, but for the web.
I am hoping you have commercial success with ApptiveGrid !
On 12 Dec 2023, at 13:02, Norbert Hartl norbert@hartl.name wrote:
I wanted to write this for a very long time now…so finally…I’m very proud to announce a new success story: ApptiveGrid
ApptiveGrid is a SaaS tool to digitalize and automatize business processes.
On the one hand ApptiveGrid is visual database that enables you to model your database via web frontend. At the same time this model is available via REST API.
<Bildschirmfoto 2023-12-12 um 12.39.29.png>
On top of the data model a form creator turns your model into a form that you can send e.g. via email to inquire data from other people…
<Bildschirmfoto 2023-12-12 um 12.40.48.png>
On the other hand ApptiveGrid is a workflow system where you can define your work flow in the web frontend and connect to events. These events are either internal (resulting from a change in your data model) or external where you can use web hooks to kick of work flows.
<Bildschirmfoto 2023-12-12 um 12.44.10.png>
With the combination of both parts ApptiveGrid is able to solve many of modern digital workflows. It enables to make it for low cost and in almost no time which are two pretty good reasons to use it. If you want to use it just visit: http://www.apptivegrid.de. ApptiveGrid provides a start plan at no cost where most of the functionalities are available. If you have additional needs just write me. For the people in the pharo community I’m sure we can provide a bit more on top.
About the tech stack:
- The business backend of ApptiveGrid is 100% pharo
- It uses https://github.com/svenvc/zinc components for the HTTP frontend
- and https://github.com/ApptiveGrid/Soil as the persistence solution.
- Each user has its own database (an empty soil database is 24kb on disk, could be made even approx. 5kb). There are over 3100 databases in the system right now
- one pharo image holds multiple soil databases open and provides memory caching for the objects
- routing of requests is done with haproxy connection persistence
- the web frontend is made with Vue.js and a pharo library that we transpile to JS with PharoJS
If you are interested you can also watch my ESUG videos at https://www.youtube.com/@esugboard. All talks in the last 2 years were about ApptiveGrid
If you have question, don’t hesitate to ask, I’m happy to answer!
Norbert
Appreciate the great write up - I’d heard mention of Adaptive Grid but hadn’t realised its full extent - wow! It’s a project to inspire us all.
Tim
On 14 Dec 2023, at 22:42, Sean Glazier <sglazier456@gmail.com> wrote:
That's really great!
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From: Sven Van Caekenberghe <sven@stfx.eu>
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Subject: [Pharo-dev] Re: [ANN] success story: ApptiveGridYes, this is a really nice project, the front end as well.
It reminds me a bit of FileMaker, but for the web.
I am hoping you have commercial success with ApptiveGrid !
> On 12 Dec 2023, at 13:02, Norbert Hartl <norbert@hartl.name> wrote:
>
> I wanted to write this for a very long time now…so finally…I’m very proud to announce a new success story: ApptiveGrid
>
> ApptiveGrid is a SaaS tool to digitalize and automatize business processes.
>
> On the one hand ApptiveGrid is visual database that enables you to model your database via web frontend. At the same time this model is available via REST API.
>
> <Bildschirmfoto 2023-12-12 um 12.39.29.png>
>
> On top of the data model a form creator turns your model into a form that you can send e.g. via email to inquire data from other people…
>
> <Bildschirmfoto 2023-12-12 um 12.40.48.png>
>
> On the other hand ApptiveGrid is a workflow system where you can define your work flow in the web frontend and connect to events. These events are either internal (resulting from a change in your data model) or external where you can use web hooks to kick of work flows.
>
> <Bildschirmfoto 2023-12-12 um 12.44.10.png>
>
> With the combination of both parts ApptiveGrid is able to solve many of modern digital workflows. It enables to make it for low cost and in almost no time which are two pretty good reasons to use it. If you want to use it just visit: http://www.apptivegrid.de. ApptiveGrid provides a start plan at no cost where most of the functionalities are available. If you have additional needs just write me. For the people in the pharo community I’m sure we can provide a bit more on top.
>
> About the tech stack:
>
> - The business backend of ApptiveGrid is 100% pharo
> - It uses https://github.com/svenvc/zinc components for the HTTP frontend
> - and https://github.com/ApptiveGrid/Soil as the persistence solution.
> - Each user has its own database (an empty soil database is 24kb on disk, could be made even approx. 5kb). There are over 3100 databases in the system right now
> - one pharo image holds multiple soil databases open and provides memory caching for the objects
> - routing of requests is done with haproxy connection persistence
> - the web frontend is made with Vue.js and a pharo library that we transpile to JS with PharoJS
>
> If you are interested you can also watch my ESUG videos at https://www.youtube.com/@esugboard. All talks in the last 2 years were about ApptiveGrid
>
> If you have question, don’t hesitate to ask, I’m happy to answer!
>
> Norbert
>
Thanks to all of you for the nice comments.
I wish you, pharo and the community all the best for 2024. In 2024 there will be a soil release that I promised for this year but I didn’t make it.
Norbert
Am 14.12.2023 um 15:19 schrieb Sven Van Caekenberghe sven@stfx.eu:
Yes, this is a really nice project, the front end as well.
It reminds me a bit of FileMaker, but for the web.
I am hoping you have commercial success with ApptiveGrid !
On 12 Dec 2023, at 13:02, Norbert Hartl norbert@hartl.name wrote:
I wanted to write this for a very long time now…so finally…I’m very proud to announce a new success story: ApptiveGrid
ApptiveGrid is a SaaS tool to digitalize and automatize business processes.
On the one hand ApptiveGrid is visual database that enables you to model your database via web frontend. At the same time this model is available via REST API.
<Bildschirmfoto 2023-12-12 um 12.39.29.png>
On top of the data model a form creator turns your model into a form that you can send e.g. via email to inquire data from other people…
<Bildschirmfoto 2023-12-12 um 12.40.48.png>
On the other hand ApptiveGrid is a workflow system where you can define your work flow in the web frontend and connect to events. These events are either internal (resulting from a change in your data model) or external where you can use web hooks to kick of work flows.
<Bildschirmfoto 2023-12-12 um 12.44.10.png>
With the combination of both parts ApptiveGrid is able to solve many of modern digital workflows. It enables to make it for low cost and in almost no time which are two pretty good reasons to use it. If you want to use it just visit: http://www.apptivegrid.de. ApptiveGrid provides a start plan at no cost where most of the functionalities are available. If you have additional needs just write me. For the people in the pharo community I’m sure we can provide a bit more on top.
About the tech stack:
- The business backend of ApptiveGrid is 100% pharo
- It uses https://github.com/svenvc/zinc components for the HTTP frontend
- and https://github.com/ApptiveGrid/Soil as the persistence solution.
- Each user has its own database (an empty soil database is 24kb on disk, could be made even approx. 5kb). There are over 3100 databases in the system right now
- one pharo image holds multiple soil databases open and provides memory caching for the objects
- routing of requests is done with haproxy connection persistence
- the web frontend is made with Vue.js and a pharo library that we transpile to JS with PharoJS
If you are interested you can also watch my ESUG videos at https://www.youtube.com/@esugboard. All talks in the last 2 years were about ApptiveGrid
If you have question, don’t hesitate to ask, I’m happy to answer!
Norbert
Thanks for all the write ups and presentations. They’ve pointed me at some
new technologies, and confirmed that I’m not the only one thinking along
certain lines. Hopefully I’ll finally get something into production in 2024.
I think Soil is definitely the way forward. Once you’ve stuck a traditional
“database” into your architecture, you can end up working harder to work
around the constraints imposed by the database than was initially saved.
Soil eliminates the “wall” between your code and the database, so you can
get objects all the way down.
Yanni
On Fri, Dec 29, 2023 at 12:25 PM Norbert Hartl norbert@hartl.name wrote:
Thanks to all of you for the nice comments.
I wish you, pharo and the community all the best for 2024. In 2024 there
will be a soil release that I promised for this year but I didn’t make it.
Norbert
Am 14.12.2023 um 15:19 schrieb Sven Van Caekenberghe sven@stfx.eu:
Yes, this is a really nice project, the front end as well.
It reminds me a bit of FileMaker, but for the web.
I am hoping you have commercial success with ApptiveGrid !
On 12 Dec 2023, at 13:02, Norbert Hartl norbert@hartl.name wrote:
I wanted to write this for a very long time now…so finally…I’m very
proud to announce a new success story: ApptiveGrid
ApptiveGrid is a SaaS tool to digitalize and automatize business
processes.
On the one hand ApptiveGrid is visual database that enables you to
model your database via web frontend. At the same time this model is
available via REST API.
<Bildschirmfoto 2023-12-12 um 12.39.29.png>
On top of the data model a form creator turns your model into a form
that you can send e.g. via email to inquire data from other people…
<Bildschirmfoto 2023-12-12 um 12.40.48.png>
On the other hand ApptiveGrid is a workflow system where you can define
your work flow in the web frontend and connect to events. These events are
either internal (resulting from a change in your data model) or external
where you can use web hooks to kick of work flows.
<Bildschirmfoto 2023-12-12 um 12.44.10.png>
With the combination of both parts ApptiveGrid is able to solve many of
modern digital workflows. It enables to make it for low cost and in almost
no time which are two pretty good reasons to use it. If you want to use it
just visit: http://www.apptivegrid.de. ApptiveGrid provides a start plan
at no cost where most of the functionalities are available. If you have
additional needs just write me. For the people in the pharo community I’m
sure we can provide a bit more on top.
About the tech stack:
- The business backend of ApptiveGrid is 100% pharo
- It uses https://github.com/svenvc/zinc components for the HTTP
frontend
- and https://github.com/ApptiveGrid/Soil as the persistence solution.
- Each user has its own database (an empty soil database is 24kb on
disk, could be made even approx. 5kb). There are over 3100 databases in the
system right now
- one pharo image holds multiple soil databases open and provides
memory caching for the objects
- routing of requests is done with haproxy connection persistence
- the web frontend is made with Vue.js and a pharo library that we
transpile to JS with PharoJS
If you are interested you can also watch my ESUG videos at
https://www.youtube.com/@esugboard. All talks in the last 2 years were
about ApptiveGrid
If you have question, don’t hesitate to ask, I’m happy to answer!
Norbert