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Have you checked nocode platforms/databases? It's basically a cross section of a super powerful excel and a database manager. You can set up the way you want, link records from different tables, add images, files to "rows", like excel on steroids. You don't have to understand SQL at all, that's why it's called "no code".
I use nocodb. Tried baserow before, but I didn't like that a lot of basic features are not available in the foss version, in nocodb only some bells and whistles are behind a paywall and not available in the self hosted version
They are also called airtable clones, as airtable was the first well known platform like these.
Some other similars exist: https://alternativeto.net/software/airtable/?platform=self-hosted&feature=database-management
I'm known as the "spreadsheet" guy at my work since I've done a lot of upgrades to our existing tools and or made new ones. I'm learning coding just doing that through app script and am toying around with some game Dev ideas in godot but this sounds super interesting. Thanks for sharing.
I can't say that I have, honestly. It never really clicked until now that a database platform is essentially what I'm looking for 😅
NocoDB looks promising! Doesn't look like they have any live demos to try out, but I can work with that. Thanks!
You can try the hosted version here: https://app.nocodb.com/