Fireview

Welcome to Fireview
Customizable document detail drawers
Notion style filters for your application data
Generate dashboards or views with natural language
Link any collections and subcollections
Aggregations on any collection field

Inspiration

With Fireview we want to solve the shortcomings we faced with Firestore while building previous startups and apps for clients. Every time, we ended up building bespoke admin apps to visualize and manage data inside our database, and struggled to answer the simplest questions about our application data.

We stumbled across Convex through Antonio’s Notion tutorial on YouTube, which we used as a way to learn web development and have some building blocks we could use for Fireview.

What it does

Currently, Fireview enables Firestore (low-code) developers & teams build admin dashboards in minutes instead of days.

Users can easily connect their Firebase project and Fireview infers the schema of their no-SQL collections and lets users view it in a Notion-inspired multi-player, intuitive and modular fashion.

It’s also possible to create dashboards entirely through natural language, by making use of Fireview’s AI agent which is schema-aware.

How we built it

Our stack is:

Convex (database, functions, secrets)
Clerk for auth + organization management
Vercel for deploying to staging and prod
Stripe for subcriptions
Vercel AI SDK for AI features
Next JS (App Router)
Tailwind CSS

To keep track of our progress and what we developed during the hackathon timeline, check our updates page

Challenges we ran into

Too many to list honestly, but developing with Cursor and getting quick help from the Convex team on Discord was invaluable. Sometimes we just needed guidance but sometimes the Convex team actually pushed fixes in record time to unblock us.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Fireview has gone from idea to paying customers in less than 4 months!

User testimonial:

“Had to build a completely custom set of dashboard pages for a mobile app for user management, app feedback, user reporting, etc. It took several hours of development + testing. I recreated the dashboard in Fireview in literally 2 minutes and it essentially has more functionality because I can easily edit if needed without a deploy and can 1-click edit documents.”

What we learned

The list is too long:

React
Next
Convex
- Optimistic updates
- Zod to Convex
- Webhooks with http actions
- Migrations
- Node vs Convex runtime
- Database wrappers
- Function auth wrappers
Clerk auth and organization management
Vercel AI SDK
- Agent with tools that interact with Convex directly

What's next for Fireview

Our vision with Fireview is to do to databases what Notion did to knowledge bases. Our dream would be to see non-technical people building dashboards using natural language, marketers creating social media material directly based on milestones reflected in their application data, founders creating pitch decks as shareable Fireview pages, PMs creating internal reports and presentations based on Fireview’s visual components synced in real time to their Firestore/Hubspot/Stripe data, etc.