Maybe I am just defending myself here, because I am also working on a generic application which is about helping businesspeople to access/maintain/query their data intuitively. (Like Excel just with a bit more constraints (with relational db. server backing))
Thanks, I did not know about it. I think this is a still quite undiscovered territory so there is place for multiple companies/products here. (I will follow them to learn from them.)
Thanks. I did not launch yet. I've written 10.000 lines of code already, but even cutting features heavily I can come out with an MVP only at about 18.000-20.000 lines of code approximately.
I try to get good ideas from these kind of applications, but my product's maybe unique strengths are:
- helping agile 'database evolution' by providing schema refactoring, and automatic schema refactoring advice by detecting redundancies.
- automatically creating indexes using query statisitcs.
- presenting a data maintenance GUI based on the relational schema, which is very similar to modern CRUD applications directly developed with the given schema in mind. (for example intelligent automatic generation of form layouts)
- semi-natural query language support. (actually I've extended the SQL Select command's syntax with quite a lot of intuitive and comfortable constructs.)
Have you looked at QlikView? Sounds similar.