Jason SchoemanJ
Windmill7mo ago
17 replies
Jason Schoeman

Loading Custom Maps

I am a creator who wish to use this incredibly epic but newly found software to build a custom home trackihg system. I have tried and used almost all the Saas type builders, Retool, Appsmith, Buddibase etc. but then I found Windmill and I instantly liked it. I though, it would most likely the solutions to get passed all the poorly implemented custom widgets of the other platforms. I wondered why it is not way more popular, I dont think Appsmith can even compare with Windmill.

I am experienced in advanced map apis in almost all languages, and the first thing I do is see how I can customize something like a Google maps or Mapbox maps in a custom widget, I just want client side js and data I can sent through. I draw some zones, paths, markers and icons on the maps. I though this should be easy, through a custom component. Until I clicked it and it says EE features only. My disappointment was a new low, and I realized why its not more popular. Would be a simple feature to implement but if it is made to deliberately stop one from doing something like this in the open-source tactic, this would be exactly the reason why it is not in the popularity of n8n, but it deserves to be.

I do not have much hope, but is there anyway to make something like still work? For those who would say, just pay $60 or what a month, I genuinely cant, we live in South Africa, for a home project it is absolutely impossible.

Any response in this matter would be greatly appreciated. I wish one could just pay $10 to unlock this for a single developer. Why are all these SaaS apps so maker unfriendly?
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