Dabble DB demo

…ago, wetwitter 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: link to this video So, while an acquisition might be great for the owners of soundcloud, I'm rather terrified as a user...…

If you haven't heard of DabbleDB, this video is a good introduction: link to this 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.

I always thought dabbledb1 was a good example of choosing Smalltalk. Sadly the product died, after the team moved to Twitter. Still not sure why they didn't just open up the source. 1 link to this video

…'re making fits into their somewhat fixed view of the world, but hit a hard wall if it doesn't. Some of them also have the same pricing model problem I mentioned in the preceding paragraph. The one I really thought was going to emerge as the market leader was DabbleDB. Sadly, Twitter acquihired them and shut it down. Here's one of the demo videos: link to this video It was very ahead of it's time back in 2007.…

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: link to this 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.