Code Name: Spider Pig - A prototype version of a “Text Boxes Over Data” application to manage inventory of radiology garments. (Lead vests, Aprons, skirts, etc.) It includes Role specific access for Admin users (can view all garments of all customers), and Customer users that can only access their own department’s garments. Each garment includes some number of images for the most recent time they were scanned via an X-Ray scanner (for quality control to ensure the lead lining is still viable), and a number of comments. Includes integration with an on-prem machine to integrate the local X-Ray and RFID devices to anvil.works cloud platform. (App is proprietary, I can’t share a link )
I’m a bit late to the game but I wanted to add what I’m working on as well. Right now just descriptions but I hope to be able to do deeper walkthroughs of these apps in the coming months.
School Registration App
This was much easier to build than I thought. Students in our program sign up for their classes and log in via their G Suite accounts. A script checks for prerequisites based on a CSV file that is loaded from our student grade system. If the student meets the prerequisites they are enrolled in the course via an API call to our Moodle installation. Total time to build: less than 8 hours.
Mongolian Stock Exchange Analysis App
This is still in a work in progress, but the idea is to show technical and traditional financial analysis of publicly listed companies in Mongolia. Nearly half of the country has a stock exchange account, and there is a definite lack of concrete information in the market.
Speech Recognition Training Data Crowdsourcing
We are about to go live with this app. It allows users to validate transcripts of Mongolian audio or provide their own transcripts of Mongolian audio. The basic app has been enhanced with error handling (for example only allowing Mongolian Cyrillic text as input), a full user page complete with balance, profile, and account history. Thanks to Anvil for a template that I used to create the custom login. I will also be adding scripts that will run occasionally to verify users are accurately completing tasks and identifying users that may be attempting to game the system.
Air Pollution Monitoring Dashboard
Air pollution is a huge problem in Ulaanbaatar, the capital city of Mongolia. The air pollution is mostly caused by the burning of coal in home stoves for heat and cooking. Recent changes to the law have banned the use of raw coal and require the use of enhanced coal that is supposed to be cleaner burning. There is much debate about whether pollution is actually reducing, and I’m currently working on building a visual dashboard that will make this clear. It’s a tricky problem to tackle, as it is difficult to compare day by day as weather has a huge impact on pollution.
I’m just getting started with Anvil, but I’m blown away by how fast it is to develop with. Can’t wait to see how Anvil improved in the future.
I’m new here and would love to share what I’ve first built with Anvil.
Daily Devotion App
It’s like a personal diary upon reflecting or meditating on the Word of God. It should have a free Bible. And the capability to write and save thoughts about the scripture being read. Users will have their own public profile like Facebook with timeline of their reflections. And could have a reflection feed as well to read others thoughts that may spark encouragement and inspiration. Could be a freemium app in the future.
I’m also amazed with how we can easily make something using Anvil! More power and God bless!
I want to bump this conversation up and get it started again.
We’d still love to know how you’re using Anvil and what you’re building with it? It doesn’t matter how small (or large!) the project is, we want to hear about it!
Share a link to something you’ve built, or tell us your plans! If you have anything you can share that might help or inspire others, then please do.
Well, aside from working on various apps for paying clients (that are subject to NDAs), I’ve been putting together an Object Relational Mapper (ORM) for Anvil apps.
The idea is to simplify basic CRUD operations to such an extent that there should be no need to write any server side code - the ORM will handle it all.
Instead, you write simple classes and create data tables with structures to match. The ORM then takes care of writing rows to those tables when you want to Create new or Update existing objects, Reads the rows and creates objects from them when you want to fetch back individual objects or sets of them and Deletes rows when you’re finished with an object.
I should also add that the time to develop this has been, in part, paid for by two of my clients whilst working on their apps: Nanovare and Osmosis Investment Management
I also have one in my head that will make it into actual code at some point…
I’d like to implement a pub/sub model with a Publisher class that has ‘publish’ and ‘subscribe’ methods.
Any form could then publish messages (probably to a 'channel ’ on the Publisher) and could also subscribe to those channels with a handler for processing the incoming messages.
Messages would have content that could be any object - simple strings, events, whatever. The subscription handlers in each form would choose what’s of interest and how to react.
In my head, I’m also thinking of making Publisher a portable class so a copy could reside on the server, probably in the session. The client side could then poll its server side sibling for messages at regular intervals and publish them to subscribers.
Possibly just the messages would be portable and the publishers separate. Not sure yet.
I have created 2 personal apps to make my side hustles easier to manage .
Turo Web App - I created a dashboard to gather all my cars information in one form using selenium and the uplink services. I also can manage my vehicles options and pricing from my web app.
Stock trading I am working on building a auto trading bot linking to my TD Ameritrade account using the TD api. I am currently able to place market orders and fetch stock prices every 15 sec.
Just tested the ability to send text messages from our Schools Lunch Order App using Twilio! In our next release, students will be able “opt in” if they want a warning text before the lunch orders are locked for the day!
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