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Re: Show HN: Superblocks – IDE for Internal Apps, APIs and Cron Jobs

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Post by bradmenezes »

phoenixbox wrote: post #9

Super cool. It's likely in the works but it would be cool to have more recipes / mini templates to start with on the application builder. E.g. a list of most active users or something similarly generic to help me get to something real faster. Also the ability to add an integration / connect postgres from the 'new api' prompt rather than having to go back to the dashboard first

This is a really good idea and something that is on our roadmap to add templates to accelerate tooling development. We're learning about the most common use cases and going to build templates to shortcut getting started. The other thing we've discussed is upon connecting an integration (ex. Postgres) automatically giving you a postgres admin app, similar to what you get with a Django admin for example.

Is that what what you're referring to?

good usability feedback on the New API part of the UI, we will address this!

Re: Show HN: Superblocks – IDE for Internal Apps, APIs and Cron Jobs

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Post by debarshri »

I have been actively following this space. I think there is a huge fallacy in a tool like this. At surface most of the developers love the idea, you often get feedback that people would use it but time comes people just not integrate their service with a platform like this. You have to build huge amount of trust either by raising from popular VC, Angel's, blogpost by reputed dev advocates, socialproofing. For a general purpose framework it is generally an uphill battle. Having said that, there has been outcomes in past like rundeck's acquisition by pagerduty. One thing I noticed that platform who have built some features that bound them to certain usecases done really well. Platform with a horizontal is a very long road than a platform with certain purpose, it also makes it easy to sell. Just some thoughts.

Re: Show HN: Superblocks – IDE for Internal Apps, APIs and Cron Jobs

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Post by tuxie_ »

Given the comments I'm used to seeing in general in HN, the over excited tone of the comments in this post makes me wonder how truthful all the praising is, or if they are related to the company in any way. Maybe HN is actually full of people who build internal tools and find this honestly awesome and a game changer.

Re: Show HN: Superblocks – IDE for Internal Apps, APIs and Cron Jobs

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Post by PhoenixReborn »

bradmenezes wrote: post #21
phoenixbox wrote: post #9

Super cool. It's likely in the works but it would be cool to have more recipes / mini templates to start with on the application builder. E.g. a list of most active users or something similarly generic to help me get to something real faster. Also the ability to add an integration / connect postgres from the 'new api' prompt rather than having to go back to the dashboard first

This is a really good idea and something that is on our roadmap to add templates to accelerate tooling development. We're learning about the most common use cases and going to build templates to shortcut getting started. The other thing we've discussed is upon connecting an integration (ex. Postgres) automatically giving you a postgres admin app, similar to what you get with a Django admin for example. Is that what w…

A Django admin replacement would be wonderful and something I'd absolutely love to build with Superblocks!

Re: Show HN: Superblocks – IDE for Internal Apps, APIs and Cron Jobs

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Post by sachdevs »

ianbicking wrote: post #13

I 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...

(One of the developers of Superblocks here)

Regarding UIPath, we don't yet have RPA as a building block but we have heard this ask before for automated scraping from customers. We are definitely looking into this in the future.

Regarding SQL injection - yes you are right. We have since worked on a feature to add support for writing parameterized SQL in-app. It will be live next week, thanks for the feedback!

Re: Show HN: Superblocks – IDE for Internal Apps, APIs and Cron Jobs

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Post by verdverm »

tuxie_ wrote: post #23

Given the comments I'm used to seeing in general in HN, the over excited tone of the comments in this post makes me wonder how truthful all the praising is, or if they are related to the company in any way. Maybe HN is actually full of people who build internal tools and find this honestly awesome and a game changer.

It definitely seems like they told / scheduled this with their users. There are definite ones based on their comments.

tl;dr, they did not read the FAQ and broke the HN rule are thinking of

Re: Show HN: Superblocks – IDE for Internal Apps, APIs and Cron Jobs

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Post by tuxie_ »

verdverm wrote: post #28
tuxie_ wrote: post #23

Given the comments I'm used to seeing in general in HN, the over excited tone of the comments in this post makes me wonder how truthful all the praising is, or if they are related to the company in any way. Maybe HN is actually full of people who build internal tools and find this honestly awesome and a game changer.

It definitely seems like they told / scheduled this with their users. There are definite ones based on their comments. tl;dr, they did not read the FAQ and broke the HN rule are thinking of

I didn't check every user but I did find a couple that had not posted anything in years until now. Makes you wonder.
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