Dabble DB demo

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panic · 2015-08 · Recommendation

If you haven't heard of DabbleDB, this video is a good introduction: [VIDEO] . It shared some goals with Eve, like letting people easily enter and manipulate data, though as far as I know it never tried to support general-purpose programming.

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e12e · 2014-06 · Recommendation

Uh-oh. Are there any other companies than Whisper System that had an actual end-user product that Twitter has acquired -- and then not killed off? I don't recognize that many from: [LINK] Except for Dabble DB (Smallthought Systems) and Posterous: [LINK] [LINK] I hadn't realize how extra-cruel the dabbledb thing was until I read this: [LINK] "Up until about a year ago, we[twitter] used an online database called Dabble DB to track and share information about our projects internally. While we’ve since moved that project management tool in-house (...)" [In other words: we realize this was a great product, and we still killed it, because, meh profits for twitter?"] For those that didn't know what DabbleDB was: [VIDEO] So, while an acquisition might be great for the owners of soundcloud, I'm rather terrified as a user...

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e12e · 2018-04 · Reference

Sadly they got acqu-hired by twitter - and judging by some (not bad, just in lack of enthusiasm) comments, I got a sense that they sold dabbledb at peak technical/architectural debt... It's a bit sad, I appeared to be a Google sheets meets office 365 flows on steroids before either was any good: [VIDEO] (i think that's from 2006 or so, archive.org has more info, but it's a bit painful to navigate on mobile) Avi Bryant comments on hn from time to time: [LINK] As I understand it, each customer got an image/vm - and data was just stored as Smalltalk objects. It'd been interesting to see where they might have gone if they coupled the dabbledb front end with gemstone/s.

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