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It’s also probably cheaper for teams in…",{"id":109,"by":110,"text":111},"27309230","fragileone","Well it was the case for me, I'm tired of getting locked into proprietary systems so a FOSS alternative is perfect.",{"value":113,"source":56,"evidence":114},"AGPL license welcomed",[115,119],{"id":116,"by":117,"text":118},"27309403","bayindirh","This is AGPL-3.0! Thanks for licensing it this way. It's a bit late here, but I'll try this tomorrow!",{"id":120,"by":121,"text":122},"27308663","scotu","Happy to see you try AGPL honestly. It might turn out to not be the right choice, but I think as a license it didn't get a fair test because of how businesses avoiding viral…",[124,138,145],{"value":125,"source":56,"evidence":126},"Privacy concerns over Hotjar tracking script",[127,131,135],{"id":128,"by":129,"text":130},"27309331","de6u99er","Looks good in the Github Readme file, but having tested the docker-compose\u002Fpg setup via docker-compose I think you still have some work to do. A lot of things result in an error,…",{"id":132,"by":133,"text":134},"27315611","undecisive","It looks pretty, but has some fairly substantial problems. - Data collection: Generally feels nasty these days, especially on something self-hosted. The opt-in-by-default…",{"id":136,"by":129,"text":137},"27309922","I am not an Hotjar expert, but looking right now at the source code of your hotjar.js file it doesn't seem to be per installation but rather one config for all running NocoDBs.…",{"value":139,"source":56,"evidence":140},"AGPL license rules out internal corporate use",[141],{"id":142,"by":143,"text":144},"27309847","hnaccy","I'd like to try using this at work for an internal tool but AGPL is a no go.",{"value":146,"source":56,"evidence":147},"Setup and bugs reported in Docker and Windows install",[148,149,153],{"id":128,"by":129,"text":130},{"id":150,"by":151,"text":152},"27359479","croes","Can't seem to get it to run on Windows 10 via npx or git clone. 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A few questions on features and plans: 1. Are all the views mobile friendly, 2. Any plan for a map view, 3. Multiple…",{"id":178,"by":179,"text":180},"27306046","abdusco","Looks great! Can I extend it? Does it have plugin\u002Fhook etc. support? I've just tried it with an SQLite database. It doesn't seem to support `BLOB` columns (that's reasonable). I…",{"id":159,"by":160,"text":161},{"value":183,"source":56,"evidence":184},"Support for more databases such as Snowflake, Redshift, PlanetScale, CosmosDB",[185,189,193,197],{"id":186,"by":187,"text":188},"27314283","towelpluswater","This is neat, nice work. Any plans to add Snowflake as a database?",{"id":190,"by":191,"text":192},"27306373","tegansnyder","Is anyone aware of something similar that supports Redshift? I have some colleagues that would benefit from a UI on top of a few Redshift tables to manage data…",{"id":194,"by":195,"text":196},"27306441","lardissone","Awesome. Tried it and it's so beautiful! 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