Dabble DB demo

Why HN readers recommended it

Used as a reference for an ahead-of-its-time end-user database tool, brought up in threads on Access clones, Smalltalk and data-entry tools.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

krueggen

Topic

end-user database tools

Format

demo

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

2

HN mentions in dataset

5

Recommendation years in dataset

2014–2018

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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• Uh-oh. Are there any other companies than Whisper System that had an actual end-user product that Twitter has acquired -- and then not killed off? I don't recognize that many from: [LINK] Except for Dabble DB (Smallthought Systems) and Posterous: [LINK] [LINK] I hadn't realize …

• If you haven't heard of DabbleDB, this video is a good introduction: [VIDEO] . It shared some goals with Eve, like letting people easily enter and manipulate data, though as far as I know it never tried to support general-purpose programming.