Do-It-Yourself Database-Driven Web Applications
Summary: app2you: hosted DIY platform letting non-programmer business owners build and evolve database-backed web apps via an SQL-expressive core or a constrained WYSIWYG-generated frontend. Paper analyzes the expressiveness vs ease-of-specification tradeoff, design choices enabling business-architect-driven page/access/behavior specification, and situates app2you relative to Rails/WebML/Ning. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)
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Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
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| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
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| 4,361 | Expressive Query Construction through Direct Manipulation of Nested Relational Results | 2016 | SIGMOD | 6.2482689e-05 |
| 12,171 | The Schema-Independent Database UI: A Proposed Holy Grail and Some Suggestions | 2011 | CIDR | 4.1905499e-05 |
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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.
| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
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| 2,716 | WYSIWYG Development of Data Driven Web Applications | 2008 | VLDB | 8.2381491e-05 |
| 4,650 | A Chase Too Far? | 2000 | SIGMOD | 6.0169723e-05 |
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