Interesting product, pricing and deployment model would be good to understand. (Side note: What are you using for docs website ?)
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#12Earlier quoted context omitted.
You make a really valid point. We've been testing the product by putting it out there to get feedback and validation, and then work on our pricing strategy based on the positioning we take. Given our architecture, one of our aims was to offer a free forever plan, the other was to have an eject strategy so that you can take you project with you as a complete and functional code repository. We feel that currently, the…
Without any of pricing I've already forgot about this product.
We're sorry you feel that way! We're just getting started, we hope to get there soon :)
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#13Interesting product, pricing and deployment model would be good to understand. (Side note: What are you using for docs website ?)
Thank you for taking some time to check it out. We are actively working on that and will have that out soon :)
The documentation is based on Gatsby!
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#14I guess the site is having HN traffic issues? Deployment takes a very long time and then always fails.
The good kind of bad problem! We're actively on it, we are hoping to restore everything back to asap. Apologies.
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#15> the fastest way to solution it I've never heard "solution" used as a verb before. It reads rather odd to me, but the product seems interesting :)
Haha now that you mention it, it does sound a little odd! Will go through the content again. Thank you so much for your feedback :)
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#17I feel like this could become a go-to service for experimenting and prototyping APIs for me, given a reasonable pricing model. A few oddities caught my eye, though, e.g. duplicates of the edited field were created when leaving the field panel. Is there a plan to add a feature to export the API in a standard like OpenAPI?
Thank you so much for going through the platform. We've just launched and sadly some bugs sneaked through. We are actively working on the fixes and they should be out asap.
Lock-ins have been our biggest concern here at Canonic. We wanted to ensure that if the user wanted to move/integrate with different services, that experience be as seamless as possible. We are exploring both OpenAPI and GraphQL schema export options. Definitely on the roadmap!
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#18Fantastic work. The on-boarding is excellent and first use is very intuitive. You've done a great job of abstracting away the complexity of defining the data models so that I was able to build and deploy an example in just a few minutes. It's a snappy admin UI and I love the auto-generating docs. All around excellent job!
That's fantastic to hear :)
I'm so glad you liked it and thank you so much for your feedback! We are working very hard to ensure that the onboarding is smooth and the learning curve flat :)
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#19Can you compare yourself to Hasura?
Yes! We're similar to Hasura at first glance given the similarities with which we approach content modeling.
The vision is to reduce the complexity (and terminology) down to a point where one would need no prior knowledge of engineering to actually apply their business logic. We’ve been slowly pivoting towards citizen first development and the goal is to get there sooner or later!
Hasura on the other hand, I feel offers a superior developer experience but that comes at the cost of alienating non-technical/citizen developers. Backend knowledge still plays a pivotal role in how well you can use Hasura.
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#20Seems like Hasura is picking up legitimate competition
That's the best compliment we've heard all day :)