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Comment by odie5533

11 hours ago

TrailBase has a comparison page https://trailbase.io/comparison/pocketbase/

What a respectfully and humbly written comparison page. Ditto for their Supabase comparison. I can't rate the objectivity since I know very little about TrailBase but they got my attention now. It brings me such joy to see such a writeup in a world where humility is perceived as weakness. Kudos.

  • > It brings me such joy to see such a writeup in a world where humility is perceived as weakness.

    I think the trend will shift in the opposite direction with advancement of all the genAI tools.

    On a personal level, my reading time has reduced. Unless I know/respect the author, I don't bother reading genAI slop.

I appreciate their honesty. After a quick look I’d give another point to Pocketbase for it’s admin UI. The TrailBase one is pretty sloppy (on mobile at least), and looks like it’s using bootstrap.

Pocketbase has a sense of quality/care around it that seems missing.

  • You won't get any argument here. PocketBase's is very polished and friendly. I fell back onto a popular pre-existing UI component system called shadcn (which does look a bit like bootstrap), not only because you gotta start somewhere but also because I'm not the caliber of UX designer Gani is :bow:. If you have the time, I would appreciate any feedback on how to improve.

    I'm a bit surprised on the mobile comment, since last I checked PB's UI wasn't responsive, i.e. you had to scroll a lot horizontally on mobile. Despite it's missing polish, I tried to make TB's at least work well on mobile. Could you elaborate? - thanks