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Yesterday I had a call with the founders of NocoDB, to meet, greet and discuss our use of self-hosted NocoDB as the beginning and foundation of TECTRA Ltd’s digitalization journey around 1.5 years ago.
As one of the earliest adopters and continuous users of NocoDB, TECTRA Ltd will very likely become a case study for Naveen’s and Raju’s endeavor, showing how small businesses can expend 20% of the expected effort with nocode tools (in particular, with NocoDB) to reap 80% of the envisioned rewards in such a digitalization endeavor.
To achieve this 80/20 we first converted legacy datasets from disparate spreadsheets to a NocoDB database. After that, data handling happens manually by anyone through the Web UI or programmatically with the autogenerated REST API. The latter is key for our own use case, as successive internal microservices have been utilizing that API too.
As for NocoDB itself: I still self-host v0.81.1 on a VM as part of the NocoPIM code I wrote for Product Data Management; current uptime is 100 days with zero crashes despite daily use.
NocoDB’s future is exciting thanks to the recent UI revamp and the addition of the Kanban view that will save tons of time by providing a ready-to-use collaborative visualization.
Small-business digitalization does not automatically mean putting on a complex and expensive (these often go hand-in-hand) ERP straightjacket!
