Simple online collaborative database for many users to add and query… does it exist? [closed]

Question

:) I'm looking to create a VERY simple database that people can subscribe to for a nominal monthly fee... no relational/pivot tables, no complicated expressions, etc... just an easy form of a couple dozen fields at most to add a record and then the ability to run simple match queries against all records. Most online services severely limit the amount of users AND/OR offer very comprehensive pro DB team tools... I don't need all that. The DB is simple and should be easy for the average user to query. And since i only plan to charge a small $2-$3/month fee for access the service should fit in that budget as I add/delete subscribers.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

Let's see if I have this correct?

You want to create a web-based portal to a db engine¹, that has user management², a queryable interface² with a free-form syntax-highlighting and handy error-correction providing edit field⁴, that displays results neatly to an on-screen grid⁵, and you want to manage⁶ the user's monthly subscriptions⁷ and you think it should be fairly simple, easy and above all cheap, and that we're all just sitting on a solution but we won't tell anyone because it's fun to laugh at the misfortune of others ...

Does that about sum things up the way you see them?

While I can point you at several disparate parts (user management and logins are built into the ASP.NET package, you can find a database display and query tool with syntax highlighting as one of the "free give-backs" that the SE team maintains on ... iirc code.google.com, and you can see some other examples in the form of SqlFiddle), I can't provide you with any single resource that adequately does what you need.

Additionally, I want you to assume you're good enough you can tie all the disparate components together, excepting the payment aspect: Each of those numbers above is a minimum of 2 weeks, full time work, for a single developer. Those are MINIMUMS. It would take you 3 months to get most of this stood up bug-free, and that's without an automated clearinghouse for credit-card billing.

Additionally, $2-3/mo is rather cheap ...

In all fairness, this question is neither relevant to this site (read the faq) nor is it an objective question that can be answered with a definitive solution.