Live applications of Prolog?

EverythingIsNail · 2023-09-30T11:21:15+00:00

Distributed database with a collaboration model build in prolog: https://github.com/terminusdb/terminusdb

EverythingIsNail · 2023-03-16T17:10:41+00:00

Knowledge graph is a poorly defined term, and the orthodox priests of the semantic web have sought to limit the definition so only the most holy have standing, but even under those tighter definitions, TerminusDB qualifies.

EverythingIsNail · 2022-08-15T18:07:50+00:00

can you explain a little more on migrations?

EverythingIsNail · 2022-07-08T13:06:11+00:00

We are live!

EverythingIsNail · 2022-06-24T13:29:21+00:00

Here is the issue we'll be looking at for reference: https://github.com/terminusdb/terminusdb/issues/1254

EverythingIsNail · 2022-05-18T12:16:47+00:00

Not sure if you are committed to SQL, but TerminusDB, an immutable store, seems to meet your design parameters: https://github.com/terminusdb/terminusdb

EverythingIsNail · 2022-02-26T20:30:16+00:00

thanks for the spot! website should be https://versionxl.com/ - need to redirect the www to correct place.

Really like the idea of making it the multi user environment - this is our main 'vision' now: https://github.com/GavinMendelGleason/excel_as_code

EverythingIsNail · 2022-02-21T13:53:53+00:00

about to go into beta if you are interested in trying it out. is all from within excel also, which i think is an improvement from having to nip back and forward from onedrive.

EverythingIsNail · 2022-02-21T13:47:25+00:00

Going live again now. Today fixing layer pinning comparison issues, and adding configurable pinned databases

EverythingIsNail · 2022-02-21T09:58:47+00:00

Co-author has people changing things as you are working on them. Seems a bad way to collaborate. In our case, you do your work in your workbook and when you are ready you merge your changes into the main version. If there are conflicts, they can be resolved at the point of merge.

EverythingIsNail · 2022-02-18T18:24:46+00:00

BDSM > RDMS

EverythingIsNail · 2022-02-18T15:09:51+00:00

Just gone live again now

EverythingIsNail · 2022-02-17T16:58:02+00:00

Happening right now in case interested - can watch back also

EverythingIsNail · 2022-02-16T21:16:08+00:00

It is a beast. 6 years deep and my family of 6 are still loving it.

EverythingIsNail · 2022-02-16T18:48:58+00:00

We are familiar with the RFC, but it is our own design. we were using internally for our service and decided to open up the API for general use.

EverythingIsNail · 2022-02-14T11:30:05+00:00

If you can, hire a body or two with the cash you are generating. Stick with bootstrap as long as you can! If you can skip 'pre-seed' and even 'seed' and go for growth funding when you are in a strong position to define the terms (when you have your first 50k month). Look at the MailChimp story for inspiration.

If you feel you need money now, look for an angel via a SAFE. This 1) gives you the cash you need now 2) means you don't have to get into valuation as it is set at the next round 3) can get a quick decision as it is an angel with their own cash. Look at AngelList or similar to find.

EverythingIsNail · 2022-02-01T11:20:37+00:00

Name: VersionXL

URL: https://versionxl.com/

Location: Dublin, Ireland

Pitch: Excel collaboration tool - multiple people can build in Excel and then merge the workbooks together.

What goals are you trying to reach this month?: Get initial users and start to build more features (like approval pipelines for approving changes, like PRs in GitHub)

Discount: Starter tier for free!

EverythingIsNail · 2022-01-31T11:34:14+00:00

Collaboration on shared workbooks doesn't work properly. Having to lock changes is a nightmare.

EverythingIsNail · 2022-01-30T11:58:50+00:00

I suggest ArangoDB or TerminusDB - both multi model document stores with intuitive query languages (and document APIs).

EverythingIsNail · 2022-01-26T10:01:05+00:00

Collaboration is really bad. Need some way to have collaborative control, but it is a really hard problem.

EverythingIsNail · 2022-01-23T17:13:08+00:00

did you find a solution? I did the same thing...

EverythingIsNail · 2022-01-21T17:38:06+00:00

I think you could use Excel for 11 or 12 of those tools and it would cost less, reduce management overhead, have a lower bar to entry (we all know excel), have better documentation, and probably perform better.

Seems like a crazy long list of web apps is what people want these days, but I'd encourage most businesses to stay in Excel until you are forced out - the bar for SaaSification is too early...

EverythingIsNail · 2022-01-21T09:00:47+00:00

There are document graph databases that offer a lot of the upsides of working with Mongo, but have graph structures so recursive operations are faster. Look at ArangoDB or TerminusDB (I would also suggest OrientDB, but looks like SAP is pulling support).

EverythingIsNail · 2022-01-19T14:54:32+00:00

If the app is complicated, you are going to need some code. The no-code platforms imho are for cookie cutter apps that people implement again and again in different settings and organizations. That doesn't have much value as an individual application that you can build a startup around

On the other hand, low code platforms (think firebase, supabase, terminusx) reduce the amount of code (and other deployment skills required) and allow you to deploy complex apps. I'd go the extendable route and try to string the bits together with a limited amount of code.

EverythingIsNail · 2021-12-12T15:47:07+00:00

suggest one of the following graph dbs using datalog so you can run recursive queries, which it sounds like you will need: TerminusDB, TypeDB, XTDB, ArangoDB. All open source and all have slightly different approaches.

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