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    Thanks! I'd say each each integration has its own nuances that can be tricky - we've found Salesforce notoriously has one of the most challenging and monolithic APIs, while Slack i…

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    Show HN: Paragon Connect (YC W20) – Plaid for SaaS Apps

    We're Brandon and Ishmael, co-founders of Paragon (https://useparagon.com). We're building a platform to makes it easy to integrate your product with other SaaS apps like Salesforc…

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    Comment #22818142

    Great question! Not yet, but this is very much on our roadmap and something we're looking to support soon!

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    Comment #22818079

    Luckily, many other people believe this too which is why we think there's a big opportunity no one has addressed here.

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    Comment #22816913

    I made an edit to the original post to clarify the reasoning around our pricing. I think that many people want a fully hosted solution so they don't have to manage their own server…

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    Comment #22816884

    Thanks, edited our post to clarify why we're charging $30/mo - we do plan to offer a free version or trial in the future. I think that most other "low-code" players are focused on …

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    Comment #22816801

    Our focus is on helping developers and product teams build integrations between their core product and 3rd party services. "Medium complexity" is a good way to describe it - you ca…

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    Comment #22816703

    Appreciate the feedback. We mention in the post that we charge for Paragon and that it starts at $30/mo. I've added another edit to clarify why we don't offer a free trial, althoug…

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    Comment #22816667

    Good point - many experienced engineers like yourself can build things like this quickly without Paragon. However, many of our users are frontend engineers or semi-technical produc…

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    Comment #22816566

    Thanks, we've edited our post above to clarify why we aren't offering a free trial right now, although we do plan to in the future.

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    Comment #22815105

    Absolutely - our vision is that one day frontend devs will be able to spin up entire backends on Paragon, and just need to plug in their database / email provider / etc. of choice.…

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    Comment #22815003

    Right now, $30/mo is for access to Paragon and the your first 1,000 tasks. We provide additional pricing tiers for higher usage where the cost/task drops significantly.

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    Comment #22814028

    Thank you! We consider a task to be an "action" that's performed in your Paragon workflow, e.g. a function execution, database query, or API request.

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    Comment #22814016

    Thank you and great question! Zapier is great for simple tasks like sending data from one app to another, but isn't well designed for more complex operations like handling large ar…

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    Launch HN: Paragon (YC W20) – Visually Build API Workflows

    We're Brandon and Ishmael, co-founders of Paragon ( https://useparagon.com ) - we're working on a platform for visually building API workflows. As a frontend engineer and product m…

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    Comment #10692834

    There's definitely a large subset of the market which expect not to pay for an email client, but there are many email products available now with many paying customers e.g. yesware…

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    Comment #10692622

    For those disppointed with Mailbox's abandonment, I'd love to hear your feedback on Polymail ( https://polymail.io ). We're in private Alpha right now, but we have many similar fea…