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Baserow
Company blog · baserow.io/blogprogrammingproductivity
Baserow is the company blog at baserow.io, writing about programming and productivity. Since 2020, 45 different Hacker News readers have linked it 105 times, most often “Baserow.io – Self-hosted Airtable alternative”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Sometimes recommended · 7 of 40 sampled comments recommend it?
Why HN links it
Baserow is an open-source, self-hostable Airtable alternative built on Django. HN commenters mostly list it among similar no-code database tools, and several call it good or recommend it.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 40 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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Most-linked posts?
- Baserow.io – Self-hosted Airtable alternative25 people · 28 mentions · first linked 2020-07-23
- Baserow – Open-source Airtable Alternative9 people · 16 mentions · first linked 2020-05-14
- Baserow lets users generate Django models on the fly3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-03-17
- /docs/guides/demo-environment2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-09-22
What Hacker News says?
I've been working on an open source online database tool called Baserow [0] as a side project. In the current form you can compare it with a simple version of Airtable, but Baserow can handle much more data, you can optionally host it on your own server, you can write plugins for it and it's (going to be) open source. Everyone can try out an early test version at the website [0]. More features are going to be follow…
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on “Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?”Submitted Baserow.io – Self-hosted Airtable alternative as a story · 802 points
HN discussionOh look they appeared. https://baserow.io/docs/guides/demo-environment Thank you!
Comment linking /docs/guides/demo-environment
on “Baserow.io – Self-hosted Airtable alternative”Submitted Baserow – Self Hosted Airtable Alternative Launches No-Code Application Builder as a story · 14 points
HN discussionFYI if anyone from baserow is reading this, I tried following your docs at https://baserow.io/docs/guides%2Fdemo-environment and can't clone your git repo -- I'm getting permission denied. Once I looked up the HTTP url it worked fine, so I think you may have a permissions issue in gitlab.
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on “Baserow.io – Self-hosted Airtable alternative”Submitted Anonymous Corpo Confessions as a story · 12 points
HN discussionIt depends a little bit on how you are going self host it. There are updating instructions at the bottom of https://baserow.io/docs/guides/installation/install-on-ubunt... and https://baserow.io/docs/guides/installation/install-on-cloud... We are going to make it much easier to self host and update in the future.
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on “Baserow.io – Self-hosted Airtable alternative”Submitted Google Sheets Alternatives for Businesses as a story · 9 points
HN discussionHello everyone, I am Bram Wiepjes, the founder of Baserow. Baserow is an open source, soon to be open core, no-code database tool and Airtable alternative. Easily create your own relational database in a user friendly way without technical experience. - Unlimited rows. - Released under the MIT license. - Uses popular frameworks like Django and Vue.js. - Uses PostgreSQL as database backend. - It can be self hosted. -…
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on “Baserow.io – Self-hosted Airtable alternative”Submitted Baserow lets users generate Django models on the fly as a story · 7 points
HN discussionA while back Microsoft announced Microsoft Lists, which is a similar tool. Of course there are also existing tools like Airtable, Bubble, Mendix etc. All these tools are great, but they have some downsides in my opinion. - If the product ever gets discontinued you might lose all your work. - All these tools have limits regarding the amount of rows you can store. - If your business depends on such a product and the p…
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on “Amazon Honeycode – build web and mobile apps without writing code”Submitted Baserow lets users generate Django models on the fly as a story · 5 points
HN discussionBaserow: https://baserow.io/
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on “Grist – Open core alternative to Airtable and Google Sheets”Submitted Show HN: Baserow 2.0 – Self-hosted no-code data platform with automations and AI as a story · 4 points
HN discussionBaserow ( https://baserow.io/ ) is in Python/Django.
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on “Grist – Open core alternative to Airtable and Google Sheets”Submitted Baserow – An Open Source No-Code DB and Airtable/Access Alternative as a story · 4 points
HN discussionYou should also check out BaseRow if this interests you... i'm not affiliated, just a fan https://baserow.io/
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on “Show HN: NocoDB – Open-Source Airtable Alternative”Submitted We moved one of the most-starred projects on GitLab to GitHub as a story · 3 points
HN discussionIn a few months you might be interested in Baserow. It's an open source alternative to Airtable that we're developing. Right now we have a very early test version at https://baserow.io that everyone can try, but it's still limited. This month we're adding some essential features and next months will be in light of the open source release. After that you can self host it without any limits.
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on “Microsoft announces Lists, a new Airtable-like app”Submitted Open source no-code database and Airtable alternative as a story · 3 points
HN discussionBaserow | Amsterdam | Remote (UTC ± 2 hours) | Full-time | Full Stack developer Baserow is an open source no-code database and Airtable alternative We're building a small, remote and experienced engineering team focused on building a great open source no-code tool. If you have experience with Django and Vue.js, you want to work on open source software and want to join a startup we'd love to hear from you. You'll be…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2021)”Submitted Baserow: Open-source no-code database and Airtable alternative as a story · 3 points
HN discussionOh I am -- thanks for visiting the site! -- it was Baserow[0] and since then I've actually finally gotten a chance to try out NocoDB[1][2] as well! I'm a heavy Thunderbird (+ maddy[3]) user, and have been wondering lately if I'm missing anything by not having CardDAV/CalDAV [0]: https://baserow.io/ [1]: https://nocodb.com/ [2]: https://nomorepizzaparties.com/accounting.html [3]: https://foxcpp.dev/maddy/
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on “Mozilla Thunderbird Beta now supports Matrix chat”Submitted Baserow: Open-source no-code database and Airtable alternative as a story · 3 points
HN discussionBaserow | Amsterdam | Remote (UTC ± 2 hours) | Full-time | Full Stack developer Baserow is an open source no-code database and Airtable alternative We're building a small, remote and experienced engineering team focused on building a great open source no-code tool. If you have experience with Django and Vue.js, you want to work on open source software and want to join a startup we'd love to hear from you. You'll be…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2021)”Submitted Baserow 2.0: Build databases, automations, apps and agents with AI – no code as a story · 2 points
HN discussionBaserow | Amsterdam | Remote (UTC ± 2 hours) | Full-time | Full Stack developer Baserow is an open source no-code database and Airtable alternative We're building a small, remote and experienced engineering team focused on building a great open source no-code tool. If you have experience with Django and Vue.js, you want to work on open source software and want to join a startup we'd love to hear from you. You'll be…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2021)”Submitted Baserow – Open-source Airtable Alternative as a story · 2 points
HN discussionNelknet ( https://nelknet.com/ ) | Senior contractors, frontend and backend | Remote (US & international, but some overlap with clients needed) We're a small, experienced team building software solutions for US-based clients. Recent projects include: - Building ChatGPT-style interfaces for intelligence report analysis - Developing generative AI features for professional networking platforms - Platform engineering fo…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2025)”Submitted Open source startup behind the scenes: Baserow’s stack, team, releases, features as a story · 2 points
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