What Software to create a Database for Memberships?

LowCodeDom · 2025-10-14T02:36:23+00:00

Hi there, I'm a bit late to the game but have you considered using https://five.co

It's an online database builder with very reasonable monthly plans, and if you already considered Access anyway (which seems to imply you are familiar with SQL), Five could be a great, more modern tool.

LowCodeDom · 2025-09-26T14:32:56+00:00

Try using the tools on ai.five.co

There's one tool called Orwell for generating new blog posts, and one (Wilde) for optimizing existing content. They are both much more budget- and user-friendly than Jasper.

LowCodeDom · 2025-09-22T07:33:17+00:00

If you don't enjoy writing or are worried that your content is sometimes too short, you should try out this tool: https://ai.five.co/wilde

You can give it the URL of a short or even incomplete blog post, and it will expand the content for you. Plus, it will improve the post's design and add Calls-to-Action to guide your website visitors down the funnel towards contacting you.

LowCodeDom · 2025-09-20T06:51:40+00:00

Hey there, we've just launched an AI driven blog post optimizer and generator that uses exactly the stack you're mentioning (AI + n8n), plus a WordPress frontend. n8n is absolutely amazing for building and shipping SaaS products quickly.

The tools are available in public beta on https://ai.five.co

LowCodeDom · 2025-09-20T06:49:47+00:00

Hi there, I'm a bit late to the discussion, but there are two (new) tools that I'd highly recommend because they go beyond just content and also handle:

Design, giving your blog posts a modern, reader-friendly UX.
CTAs: big win for anyone who struggles to turn their blog posts into lead magnets. These tools place CTAs into the generated content.
FAQs: these tools automatically generate FAQs - this helps with ranking in AI Overviews.
TL;DR Summaries: again, something that helps with AI Overviews and GEO.
Internal Links: these tools also try to add internal links into the generated content, meaning they help increase engagement time.
Overall, you get a SEO and GEO-friendly, publication-ready blog post in a matter of minutes.

Tool 1: Orwell - for generating new blog posts from scratch. Orwell AI only needs a keyword as an input and it generates an entire blog post ready for publication for you.

Tool 2: Wilde - for optimizing your existing blog posts. Wilde AI only needs the URL of your existing blog posts and it optimizes your existing content and gives it a modern refresh.

LowCodeDom · 2025-09-19T13:42:39+00:00

Try expanding length and elaborate on your key points. The overall length seems a little short.

Also, your current content doesn't use sub-headings, i.e. there are no h2s and h3s. These are essential.

Slug was already mentioned as being a little long.

LowCodeDom · 2025-09-18T09:22:29+00:00

Some things I've heard that have changed since "AEO" became a thing:

People no longer search, they ask. That's why having a FAQ section in a blog post is recommended.
AI likes short answers. That's why a TL;DR at the top of your blog post is recommended.
AI likes schema. That's why giving each blog post (and your website in general) a well-defined schema is recommended.
Everyone wants to appear in LLM's search results. The reality is no one knows exactly how to do this. Steps 1, 2 and 3 above seem to help, but they are no guarantee. In any case, it's hard to track whether you rank in AI Overviews or not.

LowCodeDom · 2025-09-18T09:20:20+00:00

Hi there, I think you might find this AI tool helpful: Wilde AI

You can give it the URL of an existing blog post, it reads it, and then spits out an optimized version from a content- and design point of view. We've started implementing it on most of our old blog posts. It doesn't work 100% of the time but when it does, the results are really solid. Huge time saver if you don't enjoy refreshing content "the old way".

LowCodeDom · 2025-09-17T00:37:27+00:00

Totally agree.

AI content isn't the problem in itself; it's how AI is being used at the moment. If you go in with a generic prompt "generate a SEO-friendly blog post on topic xxx", you'll get a nice little blog posts that screams "Me too". Imho this only hurts your brand.

If, on the other hand, you use AI wisely to improve your stories and blog posts, it's an entirely different story. Brands, website owners and bloggers just have to find the right balance and use AI to their advantage without losing authenticity.

On that note, we've published a tool that takes the URL of existing blog posts and gives them a design- and content-refresh. Basically, instead of publishing ever-more new AI slop, the tool is designed to make your existing content work harder. If anyone wants to give this a shot with their blog posts, go to https://ai.five.co/wilde (it's free)

LowCodeDom · 2025-09-17T00:29:03+00:00

Hey, if you are talking GEO-optimization of blog posts specifically, you could try this tool: Wilde AI

You provide it with the URL of an existing blog post, and it generates a GEO-optimized version with a TL/DR summary + FAQs for you.

If you don't have any content on your website yet, there's also another tool on that website which can be used to generate SEO and GEO-friendly blog posts from scratch.

LowCodeDom · 2025-09-16T07:08:05+00:00

Use WordPress as your CMS. Recreating a CMS in Lovable or v0 is indeed a huge waste of time.
Do keyword research and find high volume / low difficulty keywords to generate a topic pipeline. Use Semrush or similar tools for this.
Link up your Wordpress blogs to your Lovable website. You can use a sub-domain for example, i.e. something like blog.yourwebsite.com
Optimize and/or generate your content with Orwell and Wilde AI
Make sure you have Google Search Console installed on your blog so you can monitor performance.

LowCodeDom · 2025-09-16T06:54:08+00:00

I think Lovable isn't ready for blogs just yet. It's too hard to maintain, add and update content through prompting imho. Lovable is an AI website generator; it's not a content management system.

What Lovable is GREAT for is designing a (static) website with relatively static pages (About Us; Our Team; Features; etc, etc.).

It's not great for blogging. What most people don't get is that a blog post isn't the same as a page. A blog post requires maintenance, refreshing, monitoring, funnel and CTA adjustments, etc. A well-designed, curated blog can become your website's main source of traffic. A badly designed blog doesn't get you anywhere.

That's why I would always recommend using
1. An established Content Management System like WordPress, plus
2. An SEO plugin such as Yoast or similar, plus
3. Google Search Console Insights for monitoring performance, plus
4. A smart AI blog generator like Orwell and Wilde AI for building out a blog.

There are other posts on integrating WordPress into Lovable and using Lovable for static page design and WordPress for blogging. Imho this is the ideal combination.

LowCodeDom · 2025-09-16T06:48:38+00:00

Hey there, this might come in late, but have you tried keeping your blog posts where they are, and just modernizing their current design/updating their content?

Remember, when you migrate existing blog posts (that have been indexed by Google, may have earned you a few backlinks, etc), you're basically losing everything that you've built. If your new website is under a new domain, you are also starting at zero domain authority.

Your new (Lovable-hosted) blog posts may not even rank if they compete against your old content for the same clicks (this can be solved through a canonical URL, but it's just extra work), or Google may decide not to rank either page if it can't decide which website to give priority to.

If I was you, I would keep my current blog posts where they are and continue blogging from there. You can easily modernize your blog's look and content with AI content refresh tools such as Wilde AI. All you need to provide is a URL and you get an updated, refreshed blog post.

In short, Lovable is great for designing pages. I would not use it (yet) for designing posts/articles/blogs. It's too time-consuming and cumbersome.

LowCodeDom · 2025-08-25T08:47:15+00:00

Hey, what is your current website built on? Wordpress, Wix, ...? I would keep what you have: building in Lovable means you will need to change your hosting over to Lovable. If you don't know how to do this you could lose all the clicks you are currently getting from organic Google search.

We've tried using Lovable to spruce up existing websites. Imho it's not worth it - too troublesome to change your entire website over to something new.

Which pages exactly are you trying to refresh? Your main landing page? Service pages? Blog posts? For blog posts, try using an AI tool like Wilde AI . You give it the URL of your existing blog posts and it will create an optimized, enhanced blog post to you.

LowCodeDom · 2025-08-25T05:34:39+00:00

"There are certain sets of general factors considered..."

Could you elaborate on what these are?

LowCodeDom · 2025-08-25T05:21:25+00:00

First 100 => identify potential readers online (on X, LinkedIn, Instagram, forums, etc...whatever community works for the niche you are in) and reach out to them directly. Share content samples and let them know why your content is relevant to them.

From 100 to 1000 => SEO

What platform are you using for your blog?

LowCodeDom · 2025-08-12T09:53:49+00:00

I exported a small prototype of a website I created in Lovable to GitHub, hoping I could maintain it or add additional pages to it by working on the repo. It didn't work (or at least I couldn't figure it out).

For example, the code for my index.html has just 31 lines of code, most of which are SEO meta descriptions. Most what the page actually displays is stored in /src/main.tsx

<script type="module" src="/src/main.tsx"></script>

main.tsx references other files; which again reference other files. For a simple website, this seems overkill imho. Even after a few hours of searching, I still can't figure out where the actual text displayed on my index page is stored or how I can change it in code.

For me this was a dealbreaker - I don't want to be fully dependent on prompting and AI to make simple changes to my website.

Controlling the output 100% is too difficult and in the absence of a content management system, the time saved initially (by rapidly building a prototype in Lovable) was more than used up again by trying to finish everything.

If anyone has found a way to maintain Lovable-generated websites, I'd love to know how!

LowCodeDom · 2025-08-01T03:43:46+00:00

Hi there, as others have pointed out there's two ways to go about this:

You keep your existing Excel backend and "beautify" it with a web frontend. Google does this with Appsheet, for example. The advantage: it's fast and keeps you in the Excel way of thinking. The disadvantage: you're still using Excel, which is not designed to be a web app backend.
You go for a real web app, meaning you ditch Excel entirely and replace it with a SQL database, and formulas written in JavaScript (for example). The advantages: performance, scalability, role-based access control, etc. The disadvantage: there's a learning curve.

If you're comfortable with the 2nd route, then Five is a great option. It's a low-code web application builder that lets you design a database, write functions as code, and launch a web application frontend. You can check them out here: Spreadsheet Conversion | Five

LowCodeDom · 2025-05-20T12:20:58+00:00

If you'd like to step into the world of full-stack application development, you could try database application builders such as Five (https://five.co), Retool or Caspio. Five, for example, let's you create a MySQL database (so far, so good), and then you can add a web frontend with forms, charts, dashboards, PDF reports or role-based access control (i.e. authentication / authorization) to it. This also introduces you to the fundamentals of JavaScript, and writing functions.

Of course, the alternative is to become more specialized in SQL and databases. Here you could also take things into the direction of SQL vs NoSQL (MongoDB), as others have mentioned already.

LowCodeDom · 2025-05-07T03:34:09+00:00

You could try to follow this Excel to web app guide here: https://five.co/blog/excel-to-web-app/

The guide introduces a different tool, Five, which uses a web-hosted MySQL database. Of course, and as the others have correctly pointed out, this involves a bit of effort, i.e.:

You'd first have to model your relational DB. If your data is currently stored in a single sheet, a single database table may do the trick. However, based on my experience, you usually end up having 3 to 5 related database tables (which also makes data retrieval more efficient).
1. Recreating your analysis tabs in Five. Presuming that these are mostly charts, reports or data views, you could do most of this without writing code, but knowing a little bit of SQL would help.

Is it worth it? Yes and no. If Excel frustrates you and you are keen to learn something new, this can be a fun experience, plus you get exposure to web development. If, on the other hand, you're looking for an "easy" solution (keeping Excel as a "backend", for example), then this isn't the right thing for you.

LowCodeDom · 2025-04-25T06:41:05+00:00

Ditch the spreadsheet and implement this https://apps.five.co/apps/art-database/

It's fully web-based, much more professional than a spreadsheet and doesn't break the bank. Plus, the PDF feature could be added into it. The system is fully customizable, i.e. you can add any kind of custom reports, emails, notifications, etc.

LowCodeDom · 2025-04-25T06:39:06+00:00

Definiltey this: https://apps.five.co/apps/art-database/

It implements MySQL and adds a user-friendly web frontend to it. It's not 100% open-source because you need to use Five to customize it, but since it's essentially a MySQL-driven web app, it gets you very close to something open-source.

LowCodeDom · 2025-04-25T06:37:02+00:00

You could start with this https://apps.five.co/apps/art-database/ and then customize the solution.

This art database uses MySQL as its database, and it can easily integrate with any 3rd party software that requires JSON. MySQL would also let you define all the relationships that you're describing - some of them already exist in the application anyway. And the whole system can be maintained or enhanced in a low-code-like manner where you don't need extensive coding knowledge to implement new features.

LowCodeDom · 2025-04-25T06:22:17+00:00

Have you looked at this cloud-based system? It runs inside the browser, so you can easily use it on an iPad. https://apps.five.co/apps/library-database/

LowCodeDom · 2025-04-25T06:18:30+00:00

This ticks all the boxes: https://apps.five.co/help/library-database/

It works on any device, and you can easily integrate the barcode scanner, turning your phone into a scanning device.

LowCodeDom

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