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Hi everyone

Very excited to have found Anvil. After dedicating the last 9 months to learning Python I really didnā€™t want to go back to learning JavaScript to create an app. Found Anvil after searching for ā€˜develop apps using Pythonā€™ and Anvil appeared in an article of comparison. I am surprised the Anvil website didnā€™t appear in the search results because it seems perfect and exactly what I am looking for!

I am a recently qualified (and older - 57 years old) full-stack developer trying to figure out her next move. Interested in AI/Chatbots and AI ethics. Still going through DataCamp courses in python/data. I know I want to create products but I am just not sure what to build or even whether I have the skills to build it. Would love to own a SaaS.

Hoping to love Anvil and make it my primary focus to build things and make videos!

I have worked with WordPress and online marketing for years. Live in Shropshire (UK) and open to opportunities to meet other people passionate about python.

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HiAll!

My name is Fred Bulah, and I am Solutions Architect and Software Engineer based in New Jersey, USA.
I have been working in the Java/JEE/web/Unix/Linux space since the late 90s. My current focus is in the areas
of SaaS mircroservices, business rules and processes, and leveragnig AI technology in these efforts.
I am new to Anvil, though I do have some Python background.
Anvil looks to be very promising indeed as a rapid web applications development alternative to JEE and JavaScript/Node.js.
I am very excited to be part of the Anvil Community and look forward to some enlightending exchanges. :+1:t5:

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Hi Everyone,

My name is Rino. Iā€™m fairly new to Python and coding in general but, Anvil appears to be a platform that abstracts a lot of the difficult processes involved in building website. In regards to personal work experience, itā€™s primarily sales focused but Iā€™m starting to realize that creating things with code and creativity is a path I enjoy a lot more. I look forward to being a part of this great Anvil Community :sunglasses:

Cheers,
Rino

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Hi
I am Yuve, From India
New to Python and Anvil or Whole world of full stack development.
I am an IT engineer - Own a small Computer/Gaming Store.

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Hi, My name is John and Iā€™m in western Canada. Iā€™ve enjoyed Anvil for building mock ups for work and just experimenting with different apps. I just joined the py.space community and looking forward to building some widgets. My background is computer information systems and rail operations.

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Allan, did you ever publish the survey and reporting platform? My current project (instareport.us) is an assessment and reporting platform.

No but the paper and software are all available via github. Covid years got in the way of the publication.

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Okay. Let me know if you want to collaborate on online survey or assessment projects. Iā€™m game.

Hi, Iā€™m Drew Carson. Iā€™m a PhD psychologist now working on a solopreneur startup, Insta Report (instareport.us), which Iā€™m developing purely in Anvil. It will provide online assessment and reporting to support the development and of children and adults. My journeyman career includes traditional faculty, test development, psychology/psychometric research, institutional research, psychotherapy/testing, and now web development/startup roles. As a sidenote, I first used AI to support psychological test interpretation back in the 1990s (neural networks to model counselor interpretations of aptitude test results), and am only now picking up that line of development again. I started learning python 4 years ago (thanks, Coursera!) and discovered Anvil about 3 years ago through a python-focused podcast while driving across the country during the pandemic. Iā€™m launching Insta Report with a a screener to help parents refer their children to schools for special education evaluations. Iā€™m planning to extend the site with more assessments (including those reporting scale scores) and AI-based products. The Anvil community seems so expert in areas of software/web development and python, and I am grateful for access to this expertise. Thank you all! I would be happy to help with anything, but again my areas of experience fall more into learning/education, psychology, mental health, scale development and assessment/psychometrics, and aspects of AI.

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Hi; Iā€™m from Atlanta and recently transitioned to Freelancing; I am currently using Wavemaker Low-code and was searching for a more affordable platform and I stumbled upon Anvil. I signed up (paid) just now Iā€™m hoping to get my bearings and must have features tested: So farā€¦

  • PGSQL - check
  • UI/Drag-N-Drop - check
  • Python - check PLUS (this is awesome)
  • RESTapi endpoints for app - this is documented so - ?check?
  • Deployment to VPS - potentially yes - ?check?
  • Custom Domain - check
  • Security - potentially yes - ?check?
    So far in 1 hour this looks promising and Iā€™m looking forward to creating some apps.
    Cheers!
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Welcome to Anvil!

That definitely works, and is used by a bunch of folks (including me).

Some others on the forum have experience with deploying to VPS, so if you get into trouble and canā€™t find the answer in old posts, feel free to ask.

Welcome, Terry! I hope that Anvil meets your freelancing needs.

Hi, Iā€™m Pablo from Valencia (Spain). My background is in the social sciences with a PhD in Psychology, but I have spent most of my career as an international consultant doing data science and AI-related work.

I have been playing with Anvil for a few months and I am getting ready to launch my first Anvil app: QualBot! With this app, I am hoping to scratch my own itch: I often work with data from focus group discussions and in-depth interviews with experts. While I love those conversations, analyzing the transcripts and writing a report takes a long time and is a bit of a slog. QualBot is an AI agent that implements thematic analysis to generate detailed reports and codebooks.

While most of the work for the app has been on the development of the agentic workflow, I am super grateful to Anvil and the Anvil community for the great product and knowledge base, which have allowed me to create a robust interface in little time.

I am still giving QualBot the final touches, but until then, I would love any comments you may have on:

Thanks!!!

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Hello to my fellow Psychologist! Have you launched already?

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Hey, nice to meet you. Yes, I soft-launched Insta Report Assessment (instareport.us) in June, and then turned on the payment method in early September. Iā€™m working on the YouTube campaign now and adding a few more features to the site. Then in October I plan to start working on my second assessment. QualBot sounds like a great idea BTW. Like you, I really appreciate the Anvil community. Best, Drew

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Best of luck with your launch. Iā€™m gearing up for a soft launch myself, though I have to admit, the marketing side of things is a bit daunting :joy:

I checked out instareport.us, but noticed itā€™s US only, any plans for an international expansion?

OlĆ” me chamo Marcio, sou do Brasil, Carioca (Rio de Janeiro), hĆ” mais algum brasileiro por aqui?.. estou aprendendo ainda. Estou muito curiosos sovre o tema. Lowcode baseado em python parace Ć³timo para ciĆŖncia e engenharia de dados, este Ć© o Campo que pretendo trabalhar.
Aproveitando a oportunidade, hĆ” algum curso, preferĆŖncia em portuguĆŖs (Portugal) para se aprender sobre o Anvil? Muito grato.

Hello, I am Edbert, I am from Indonesia. I encountered anvill and fell the usefullness to embed python code to no code web app. I often used python for helping to analyze and clean data. I am currently building an app to handle multiple sales data and then convert it into a master stock data to easily view the data.

Nice to meet you all. Hope to learn from you.

Thank you

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Hi, Iā€™m Scott.

I live in Florida, retired 2 years ago, was an engineer then a volleyball coach. My ā€˜hobbyā€™, so to speak, is creating an app to analyze statistics for beach volleyball to really empower elite coaches to individualize training and scouting.

Anvil puts everything in one place for me. I experimented with a few other platforms, but seems like they required me to integrate too many technologies, which would slow me down or stop me. So far, Anvil has been great!

Scott

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