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Dabble DB demo

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Databases & storageGUI, HCI & interface history

What it is

A short product demo of Dabble DB, a web tool for importing, entering and manipulating structured data with little effort. It was built in Smalltalk and later acquired by Twitter.

Why Hacker News recommends 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.

  • 2 people recommended it
  • 2 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2014, last 2018

What HN commenters said

  1. “For those that didn't know what DabbleDB was”

    Demo of Dabble DB, a product Twitter acquired and shut down.

    e12e, 2014-06 · Recommendation · in “Twitter in talks to buy online music firm SoundCloud”

  2. “If you haven't heard of DabbleDB, this video is a good introduction”

    Good introduction to DabbleDB's easy data entry and manipulation.

    panic, 2015-08 · Recommendation · in “Eve Version 0”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: dabble db, smalltalk, spreadsheets, no-code, data entry

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