@wirelessmouse Depends on what that data actually is :P but there's a lot of generic multi-user 'database' systems that just use the LAMP stack, I've used a number of them over the years, not sure what projects are still active, but they're out there.

If the data is of a specific type, depending on what it is, there might be a great solution already built.

https://github.com/nuBuilder/nuBuilder-4.5 stuff like this exists, there's tons of them out there, some complex, some /super/ simple.

@wirelessmouse What kind of data though :P

For example if someone asked for a database for managing an inventory of components... I'd say:

https://github.com/partkeepr/PartKeepr

If its 100% bespoke and nobody else would be tracking any data anything like what you are using, just use a simple database builder and have people use it, if its something people would commonly be holding data for... there will be existing solutions and they'll be far more developed than you can think up in just 8 hours.

@Xipher Going from spreadsheets to a database makes it an order of magnitude more difficult for engineers to work with the data set. But it doesn’t seem to add enough value to be worth the effort.

Trying to see how low I can get the required effort, but it’s challenging, so I wanted to see if anyone had any ideas because I haven’t found a workable one.