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📣 paramz

What are you using for managing reference data in your app?


Hi HN, In almost every company I have ever worked in, we had some in-house solution for managing so-called dictionaries/parameters/reference-data. If you still wonder what I am talking about: assume you would have some data that normally you would put in an enum, but it would have to be dynamic and business people would need to have control over it, what would you use? Admin panel would be probably the first choice, but sometimes there are not enough resources or budgets to do so. Feature toggles are the closest thing that comes to my mind when I think about the potential product, but its use case is somewhat different (lack of queries, versioning, it is not suited to have lots of data). I have decided with my friends that we could deliver a solution to this problem, but I wonder if this is something that you would use or maybe you already using some solution that solves this problem?


  👤 smt88 Accepted Answer ✓
I've been in software for 20 years and can't figure out what use case you're talking about.

Can you explain or give more concrete examples?

If you want to sell a product to people who don't have time to build an admin panel, that's a market without much time or money -- both of the things they need to research your product, test it, and integrate it.