🧐 Ask Community: Let's showcase your Custom Apps

[Fred-from-Fibery]

Hi Community! As we’re nearing the official release of Custom Apps we want to showcase all the different amazing things that can be built. We would love to hear what you’ve built and we would be even happier to get your permission to share your apps publicly. If you’ve got sensitive information that can’t be shared, we could also rebuild your app internally to protect your secrets.

Looking forward to see what you’ve built!

[Artur]

First of all, thanks for Custom Apps. It’s a genuinely great feature and we love it: it’s the piece that finally let us build the screens we wanted instead of bending views into shapes they weren’t meant for. Here’s what we’ve built so far.

Custom Apps replaced the separate tools we used to pay for. Everything reads and writes plain Fibery databases, and most of the heavy lifting behind the screens runs through n8n.

Meeting Intakes After a meeting, an n8n flow turns the transcript into draft tasks and drops them into an intake queue. This app is the Tinder-style swiper on top: one card at a time with the title, description and pre-filled fields, and you swipe right to approve or left to reject (buttons work too). Approve creates the real task in the right department board, reject kills it. Anything wrong on the card can be fixed inline before approving, and there’s an Undo. Clearing a meeting’s worth of tasks takes under a minute.

Time off: My Time Off, Team Calendar, Approvals
Three screens over one set of databases, which together replaced our HR tool.

• My Time Off: the employee’s screen. Balances at the top, leave type, full or half days, public holidays pre-marked in the picker, optional note. Submitting creates the request and starts the approval flow.

• Team Calendar: month view of who is out and why, colour-coded by leave type, pending requests shown hatched so conflicts are visible before anything is approved. Plus “out today / out tomorrow” and upcoming public holidays.

• Approvals: the approver’s inbox. Each card shows the request, the reason, and who else is off on the same days, with Approve / Decline in one click. Notifications and reminders around it run in n8n.

  
  
  

Add Invoice Drop a PDF invoice in, an AI step reads it and creates the expense record: vendor, category, period, amount, status. Manual entry is still there for the odd cases. Our monthly routine went from hours to minutes.

Acquisitions No screenshot for this one, only because
I’d have to blur half of it, but it’s the app we’re most proud of. One row per ad creative, with TikTok, Meta and Google data merged into a single table: CTR, IR, CR, CPA, spend, hook and hold rate, installs, plus the creative preview and which networks it’s live on. Filters by app, network, test stage, language and file type. We used to run all of this in Superset, now it lives next to the rest of our data in Fibery.

What worked well for us: validation now lives in the UI, so we barely need validation rules any more. Before, every corner case had to be spelled out as a validation rule, with roles configured on top, and it grew into a pile nobody wanted to touch. Now the app simply doesn’t let you submit something invalid: the wrong option isn’t there, the button stays disabled, the field explains itself

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