Avo
Dev tools
admin panel framework
SHOW HN2022
306points
167comments
#134of 2,570 in 2022
Top 6%of 2022 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
20 positive, 25 neutral or asking, 3 mixed, 14 critical, out of 62 comments about the project. Thread score +0.14.
Idea: 5 for, 4 againstPricing: 4 for, 5 againstDesign: 4 for, 1 againstExecution: 2 for, 2 againstPerformance: 0 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Useful for Rails developers building admin panels fast
From 1 comment
Yes, very easily.
Simpliplant on HN
Objections
Perpetual fallback license and yearly subscription for updates feels restrictive
From 2 comments
I tried that and the question that popped up was "what if I don't pay anymore? will I not be able to use it then?". It kind of turned people away, and that's why I change the…
adrianthedev on HNI mostly agree with you, but that's on more "traditional" SaaS products. When it's a service. This is more of a product. There are developers and agencies that buy Avo, build…
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Ceiling and complexity concerns for large apps versus plain Rails
From 2 comments
> "Developing with plain Rails and a minimum of gems is linearly difficult while developing with a set of DSL/generators like Avo can lead to a complexity spike from 1 to 11 in…
adrianthedev on HNI believe that no tool is perfect. Not even Rails. We reach for other gems and sometimes do things not "the Rails way" and we get the job done. And there's a fallacy there. We…
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Requests
Active Admin to Avo converter
From 2 comments
Multi-tenancy brings a lot of complexity and multiple integrations with various API's also brings that. One of the large barriers for an app that's UI is internal use only is…
matt_s on HNThe Active Admin to Avo converter sounds like a good idea, and I'll wait until I hear about this request from more users. I use my time where the users need me to use it. Oh,…
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Support for API-based data sources
From 1 comment
I would say that the Community version (free) covers most of what Active Admin does. The search is paid with Avo (and included in AA). The Pro users are those who need to build…
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Questions
How the pricing and perpetual license work
From 2 comments
Sorry about that. I'll try to make that clearer. We have an FAQ item on teh bottom of the page. The pricing is per project (per app). You pay $250, and you get one year of…
adrianthedev on HNI tried that and the question that popped up was "what if I don't pay anymore? will I not be able to use it then?". It kind of turned people away, and that's why I change the…
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Alternatives named
Active Admin
From 2 comments
Hey HN, I'm Adrian, an indie developer and creator of Avo. For more than ten years, I built countless admin panels and back-offices for all types of apps. After a while, you…
adrianthedev on HNI would say that the Community version (free) covers most of what Active Admin does. The search is paid with Avo (and included in AA). The Pro users are those who need to build…
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administrate
From 2 comments
Hey HN, I'm Adrian, an indie developer and creator of Avo. For more than ten years, I built countless admin panels and back-offices for all types of apps. After a while, you…
adrianthedev on HNYeah, my bad there. Jumpstart ships with Administrate, not rails admin. I'm humbled to have built something that could ship with Jumpstart. Thank you for the kind words!
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rails_admin
From 2 comments
They are orthogonal tools. They blend together nicely. I use both on our infrastructure. Jumpstart is an amazing starter kit (starter kit doesn't do it justice) that gives you…
adrianthedev on HNYes, sure. They are tools that work together nicely. I use both on our infrastructure websites (https://avohq.io). Jumpstart is an amazing starter app that gives you accounts,…
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basetool
From 1 comment
Haha. Funny you should mention that. Me, together with my brother, built basetool, which should have been Avo but for TypeScript (framework agnostic). You give it a database URL…
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