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Show HN: Live programming tool for business apps based on Observable runtime (jigdev.com)
1 point by d--b on March 10, 2021 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


Hi HN, author here.

I built a tool to create smallish business apps/reports/dashboards in javascript.

The tool is based on the Observable notebooks runtime (www.observablehq.com), meaning it's a live JS programming environment.

The main difference between this and Observable are:

- I organize cells on a 2D grid, with multiple tabs - much like a spreadsheet that business people are more familiar with.

- This tool runs as an electron app, so you can access local files and make non-CORS http calls, which is the biggest pain in the butt when working with Observable.

- This tool ultimately is meant to be "batteries-included", meaning that I hope to provide more complex charts/pivot tables and all sorts of widgets to make business people's lives easier.

This is a very early version (they told me to launch early), so it's still very very crude, however I already use it myself for a variety of tasks.

Any comment / suggestion / money? / job? welcome.

Also info@jigdev.com




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