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I think it requires a lot more UI components, more flexible layouts, and customization options to be able to build something externally facing. Building for end-users, especially on the consumer side, tends to require a lot of flexibility on all 3 aspects. Our product could handle it, but the resulting apps will feel quite limited.

For example, one of the limitations is that we have a highly opinionated app layout, with a data (table view) on the left, and a sidebar on the right to perform actions. Only a small fraction of all external apps have this layout (e.g. database lookup tools, CRMs, data editing tools) but on the other hand, almost all internal apps look this way.




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