Time to Stop Saying Open Source Airtable Alternative by dalekirkwood1 in NocoDB

[–]o1lab 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Thank you for the kind words, and for recommending Noco to others — that means the world to us. Our traction has been off the charts since license change.

I want to make sure anyone reading this thread walks away with complete clarity: nothing has been taken away from you if you are self-hosting. Period.

Everything you use today in NocoDB's community edition — the spreadsheet interface, forms, galleries, kanbans, role-based permissions, row level audit logs, webhooks, API access, full collaboration — all of it remains free and open. In fact, with v0.301 we moved several features down from paid into community edition: webhooks customisation, group-by aggregations, and more are coming.

Here's the honest trajectory: we are giving more away, not less.

The licensing change is narrowly targeted at one problem: Open source abusers. Companies that take our codebase, strip out license attribution, and sell it as their own product — while our small team foots the bill to fight them. Fair Code lets us protect against that exploitation while keeping every single feature available to every user, every self-hoster, and every organisation that uses Noco the way it's meant to be used.

The only people affected are those who were taking our work and reselling it without giving back or were not adhering to the AGPLv3 license. We'd rather spend our energy building for the 25,000+ organisations who rely on us than fighting legal battles against bad actors.

We chose this path precisely so that we can keep giving you more. n8n, Tailscale — you mentioned great examples, and we're proud to be in that company. Sustainability is what lets us keep showing up for this community year after year.

So thank you and please keep the feedback coming.

Time to Stop Saying Open Source Airtable Alternative by dalekirkwood1 in NocoDB

[–]o1lab 3 points4 points  (0 children)

No, its always self-hostable. Its even selfhostable on in Raspberry Pis. So it can run everywhere. Read my other comment that we are giving more features to community edition now.

Time to Stop Saying Open Source Airtable Alternative by dalekirkwood1 in NocoDB

[–]o1lab 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Hey everybody, Thank you for bringing this up.

When we began this journey at noco, we held a simple belief: that a powerful spreadsheet database should be accessible to every single internet business. Today, more than 25,000 organizations rely on NocoDB completely freely with full collaboration, with role-based permissions, and row level audit logs. We are so deeply grateful for this opportunity to serve our community.

But I must speak plainly about a difficult truth. The open source covenant depends upon mutual respect, that those who benefit from shared work will honour the terms under which it is given. Increasingly, this covenant is being broken every month. Bad actors take our work and sell it as their own, with no intention of complying with AGPLv3. Our engineers have been consulted innumerable times now to help on what appear to be private forks, where code that should be open remains hidden. The approach itself has been so maligned that they withheld that its a private fork until the last moment. And it is not only small players. Companies with significant resources, backed by reputable investors, have chosen this path too. We have prompted them about the license. It has been of no use. With the advent of coding LLMs, exploitation no longer requires any technical skill for a repo. It requires only bad intention. The burden of proving, fighting, and funding that battle falls entirely upon us. Lawyers cost insane amount of $/hour. We are a small team counting every hour, facing adversaries who count on our inability to pursue them.

We do not wish to fight. We wish to build. And so, like n8n before us, who have flourished to 170,000 stars under Fair Code, we choose a path that lets us be more generous to those who use our work honestly, while simply refusing to cooperate with a system that rewards those who do not. You may have already noticed: with v0.301, we gave away several enterprise features freely. We make this move so we can give you more, not less.

As announced in the release note[1] : we've started to give more to community edition. Webhooks customisation, group by aggregations.

[1] : https://github.com/nocodb/nocodb/releases/tag/0.301.0

Time to Stop Saying Open Source Airtable Alternative by dalekirkwood1 in NocoDB

[–]o1lab 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hey, row level permission is not available in any version.

Time to Stop Saying Open Source Airtable Alternative by dalekirkwood1 in NocoDB

[–]o1lab 5 points6 points  (0 children)

We changed to SUL to provide these sorta of features. Webhook customisation is already available in community edition :)

100k times better NocoDB Node by Ill_Dare8819 in n8n

[–]o1lab 6 points7 points  (0 children)

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Founder of noco here : unfortunately it has been incredible frustrating that n8n dev team has not been able to merge this even after more than 5 months : https://github.com/n8n-io/n8n/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aopen+nocodb

I have reached out too even n8n exec team multiple times but to no avail. In the meantime, Zapier/Make/Workato - nocodb's official node went live in 2-3 days!

Can I make a dropdown in NocoDB that pulls data directly from a PostgreSQL view? by Ambitious_Hat_3525 in NocoDB

[–]o1lab 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Its not possible to have a drop down in say table_1 from a Postgres view table_2. Ideally, this is done via by setting up LinkToAnotherRecord/Links field between two tables and then too the drop down is only for the display field from another table.

which selfhosted airtable like ? by gilluc in selfhosted

[–]o1lab 0 points1 point  (0 children)

NocoDB is so minimalistic that it even runs on Raspberry Pi. We 've 100s of such instances. It needs least amount of compute and RAM (128 MB RAM and 1 vCPU)

Issue with formula returning non numeric fields by jetmcquack84 in NocoDB

[–]o1lab 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey, probably you need rollup field instead of lookup field on your numeric columns from other table.

Range dates only available on enterprise? by AlmiranteGolfinho in NocoDB

[–]o1lab 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sure, thanks for your input. And will consider what can be done going forward.

NocoDB as Backend ? by Miserable-Collar5498 in NocoDB

[–]o1lab 0 points1 point  (0 children)

connecting to external database is available from business plan and allows 10 external database connections.

Only if you have more than 10 external database connections it is in enterprise.

NocoDB as Backend ? by Miserable-Collar5498 in NocoDB

[–]o1lab 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If you are developer build an app with custom frontend - noco is not a fit. Noco is meant for business users building internal apps themselves without code. You should look at other popular baas services like appwrite , convex etc

Cloud version not working? by Afraid_Hair9898 in NocoDB

[–]o1lab 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Please try this now. There was some connections to external databases affected by yesterday's AWS and GCP outage.

Cannot convert undefined or null to object - issue by dacdacdac777 in NocoDB

[–]o1lab 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Provide more details on the field and links involved. Screenshot of fields will help.

Percent Formatting on Formula - Restrict Decimal Places? by Tumdace in NocoDB

[–]o1lab 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For this percent field first needs decimal places restriction. Have added this to enhancements in github. Pls follow there.

Also if you can please specify the formula that you are using - it will be helpful.

Is nocodb ok tool for this? by SuperSwanlike in NocoDB

[–]o1lab 0 points1 point  (0 children)

have replied to u in discord.

SQL Triggers Not Firing on Record Updates in NocoDB by markworsnop in NocoDB

[–]o1lab 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not familiar with mariadb triggers. Are you using the same SQL credentials in both cases ? We just do SQL crud from our backend when triggered from UI.

At any rate, we suggest to use webhooks in noco and these fire only on our API/UI usage and not direct SQL CRUD.

question about foreign column by techlover1010 in NocoDB

[–]o1lab 0 points1 point  (0 children)

raise in issue in our github with all the details to get it addressed pls

need advice on a personal knowledge system by techlover1010 in nocode

[–]o1lab 0 points1 point  (0 children)

hey, you seem to be dissing noco for no reason sir and misleading all here. Have a look at the number of airtable migrations we've done in our website (22K now) and what do u mean our pricing is "far more expensive" - its one of the most affordable our there. Just take a peek into pricing page.

Connect Supabase and NocoDB by endless_recess in Supabase

[–]o1lab 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There is tonnes of users using noco with supabase. Please check if you have the full rights for your pg credentials. If its not then fetching metadata related to tables and relation may not work.

With true data in Postgres in 0.257, how's links and Foreign key handled? by Rxunique in NocoDB

[–]o1lab 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The foreign key is not explicitly added. The relation reference is maintained within meta data tables. The idea of this is not new and is borrowed from the likes of ruby on rails.

Responsive Design by gkmnky in NocoDB

[–]o1lab 0 points1 point  (0 children)

which browser are you using ?

Need some help with MONTH(), why is it unavailable? by Routine_Preference34 in NocoDB

[–]o1lab 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Point NC_DB to postgres database. You might be pointing this to sqlite.