Hello fellow app designers and anyother title you would like to be refered as. I am trying to see if Glide can help me as a tool of showing in the site of my municipality the desicions that are made and being published in a web platform we have here in Greece, called diavgeia.gov.gr . There is an api I can take the desicions from there and thats option no1 to take the decisions and the other way is that i will add the decisions manually from a file I have. I want to add fields for every desicion that will act as metadata and help our citizens search easily past desicions of municipal board. Has anyone developed something like that? Is Glide usefull on a case study like that? Thanks in advance. Cheers from Greece.
Hello Nikolaos, welcome to Glide’s community forum 
The immediate thought that comes to mind is why would you need to duplicate the information on a website in a progressive web app. If it is because the information on the original website is not presented well, then perhaps the original website needs to be worked on, not the copy.
But if a progressive web app is still indeed needed, then I feel like Glide would be a good option, at least to get started on. You could launch the project on the Free or Maker plan. Glide is great to display collections of items (in your case decisions). The OpenGraph.io integration might come in handy to help you enrich your database in Glide.
The Glide app could be an internal solution part of diavgeia.gov.gr. I don’t know about government, but businesses will host their website at www.mybusiness.com for instance, and then an app at app.mybusiness.com (mybusiness being the domain name).
Aside: The only hesitation I would have running a governmental project on Glide is that Glide is subject to the US Cloud Act. Personally, I think nations, or public actors in general, should be running their operations on open-source software and should have full sovereignty of their data. I find it a little disturbing that public entities around the world run their operations on Microsoft or Google (or Glide) and put their data in the hands of private corporations or another country. But maybe that’s just me.
1 Like
In addition to the very useful information Nathanael has presented, I think this is the best option for you if you can afford a plan that enables time-based workflows and calling an API to get only the “new” decisions every day/week/month.
1 Like