Super exciting. What industries or applications are you guys tackling first? Congrats!
Show HN: Superblocks – IDE for Internal Apps, APIs and Cron Jobs
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#12beautiful. Looks really great!!
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#13I like the UI integration. Feels similar in purpose to UIPath or other robotic process automation systems, but I don't have enough experience to compare.
Looking at the video, at 1:02 you do put in code to open yourself to SQL injection... it's for internal tools, but still...
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#14Looks awesome, internal tools are usually such a pain to build and maintain (and tough to prioritize relative to customer-facing features). Excited to see this!
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#15I never watch videos (I can't skim read a video and they usually involve audio and that's usually inconvenient).
So without the video I'm struggling to understand what "programming" with superblocks means. Is it drag and drop visual programming? Show me a screengrab. Is it coding? What does the syntax look like?
Is it a mixture of both? I want to see both.
Yes - I'm lazy and probably could have read more but lazy, busy people are good test subjects as they probably make up the majority of eyeballs.
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#16Super exciting. What industries or applications are you guys tackling first? Congrats!
We've seen the most pull from more operations-heavy businesses like Fintech (building KYC, AML, Fraud, Credit Card Admin tools), Insurance (claims management and support admins), E-commerce (Order Management, Supply chain). Which industry are you in?
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#17What sort of company size would find this useful? I can already see several pushbacks against this type of tool.
A startup or mid sized company with operational/management/admin requirements but no dedicated internal tools team and/or limited engineering resources.
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#18What sort of company size would find this useful? I can already see several pushbacks against this type of tool.
We've seen a mix of small startups building their first admin tool, for example to replace a Django Admin. We've also seen larger enterprises with 1000+ operations people building financial services tooling to support credit card management or a large salesforce doing on the fly pricing of their product based on data from Snowflake. So it ranges, what we do see if most medium and large companies want to use our source available agent to keep their customer data in their VPC
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#19We are glad to be one of Superblock's early customers to build some of our internal tools and are super happy about it. Congrats on your official launch.
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#20Is this open source? Btw your demo is really slow on my phone.
One of the developers that built Superblocks here:
> Is this open source
Although the app builder you see on the cloud is not open source, we offer a hybrid deployment option - the on-premise agent (OPA) is our execution engine that runs all of the code that you write in Superblocks. It is source available https://github.com/superblocksteam/agent and you can self-host it to ensure your data stays within your network. Feel free to check out the github repo or our docs (https://docs.superblocks.com/on-premise-agent/overview) for more details!
> demo is really slow on my phone
Sorry to hear that! The one on https://superblocks.com loads faster.