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Re: Show HN: Revert – Open-source unified API for product integrations

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Post by zicon35 »

DandyDev wrote: post #20

Congrats on the launch! This certainly seems like a product for which a big market exists. As someone who is dealing with Salesforce integration in my own company, I have a question: how well does the Revert Salesforce integration work with highly customized Salesforce setup? We operate in a complex domain, so our Salesforce setup is customized with a bunch of custom entities in a complex hierarchy. So not just Accou…

1. We support Standard Objects (Accounts, Opportunities) and unify them into a simple schema for you to work with. We allow you to work with custom fields on standard objects already.

2. We also allow you to call native CRM apis without the hassle of managing OAuth if you need to. This will allow you to work with any nuances of a specific CRM or CRM instance. Checkout - https://docs.revert.dev/api-reference/crm/proxy

3. At the same time, we are launching custom object support very soon that will allow you to work with custom entities as they are but in a much better way than using the native APIs directly.

Re: Show HN: Revert – Open-source unified API for product integrations

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Post by zicon35 »

DandyDev wrote: post #20

Congrats on the launch! This certainly seems like a product for which a big market exists. As someone who is dealing with Salesforce integration in my own company, I have a question: how well does the Revert Salesforce integration work with highly customized Salesforce setup? We operate in a complex domain, so our Salesforce setup is customized with a bunch of custom entities in a complex hierarchy. So not just Accou…

Happy to answer any follow ups or work with you to get your Salesforce Integration out quickly! :)

Just book a time here: https://cal.com/allenrevert/30min

Re: Show HN: Revert – Open-source unified API for product integrations

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Post by 3c6bYDXLMj »

DandyDev wrote: post #20

Congrats on the launch! This certainly seems like a product for which a big market exists. As someone who is dealing with Salesforce integration in my own company, I have a question: how well does the Revert Salesforce integration work with highly customized Salesforce setup? We operate in a complex domain, so our Salesforce setup is customized with a bunch of custom entities in a complex hierarchy. So not just Accou…

I just want to commiserate with you as someone else that’s currently working with Salesforce. Hell, I’m not even working with Salesforce. My product is just exposing an API that our Salesforce team is integrating with. That alone has been sufficient exposure to the absurd environment in which those poor guys are working.

Re: Show HN: Revert – Open-source unified API for product integrations

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Post by zicon35 »

3c6bYDXLMj wrote: post #23
DandyDev wrote: post #20

Congrats on the launch! This certainly seems like a product for which a big market exists. As someone who is dealing with Salesforce integration in my own company, I have a question: how well does the Revert Salesforce integration work with highly customized Salesforce setup? We operate in a complex domain, so our Salesforce setup is customized with a bunch of custom entities in a complex hierarchy. So not just Accou…

I just want to commiserate with you as someone else that’s currently working with Salesforce. Hell, I’m not even working with Salesforce. My product is just exposing an API that our Salesforce team is integrating with. That alone has been sufficient exposure to the absurd environment in which those poor guys are working.

We hear you, mate! Sending hugs :)

Re: Show HN: Revert – Open-source unified API for product integrations

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Post by zicon35 »

mjirv wrote: post #19
zicon35 wrote: post #2

Hi HN! Allen & Jatin here, co-founders of Revert.dev Integrations require a lot more engineering time, resources, and ongoing maintenance than you would first expect. When building your own integrations you have to deal with challenges, such as: - unreliable third party integration endpoints, which fail or hang more often than you think; - monitoring and reliability of the integration code; dealing with different sch…

Nice! We could be in the market for something like this soon. What’s your quick pitch for why someone should use Revert vs competitors like Merge.dev and Nango?

* vs Nango - we think they have great support for OAuth management and do support more APIs than ours on the surface (atleast at the moment).

Nango is based on Pizzly an existing OSS project which they built on top of. We're building it from the ground up.

Even though they seem to have more integrations, our integration support is better than them in terms of the depth of use-cases allowed (more standard objects supported, custom properties, field mapping support, custom objects (soon) etc).

A few prospects of ours tried out Nango for this use-case and then came to us eventually.

* vs Merge - we'd be able to fly past the number of integrations offered by them being an OSS product especially because of community contributed integrations. Being a developer first product, open-source is the way to build the best product in this category.

Integrations inevitably have edge cases that you would run into and you as a customer might require Merge to behave in a certain way. The typical response at a closed-source SaaS company would be that its on "their roadmap", never to get back again. This holds you tightly with their roadmap velocity and you're locked into a vendor.

Being an open-source product you, the engineer, will be able to fix or add integrations right away in the worst case if nothing else. This way of operating is very powerful we think.

Also, we don't cost you an arm and a leg :)

Re: Show HN: Revert – Open-source unified API for product integrations

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Post by rguldener »

mjirv wrote: post #19
zicon35 wrote: post #2

Hi HN! Allen & Jatin here, co-founders of Revert.dev Integrations require a lot more engineering time, resources, and ongoing maintenance than you would first expect. When building your own integrations you have to deal with challenges, such as: - unreliable third party integration endpoints, which fail or hang more often than you think; - monitoring and reliability of the integration code; dealing with different sch…

Nice! We could be in the market for something like this soon. What’s your quick pitch for why someone should use Revert vs competitors like Merge.dev and Nango?

https://www.nango.dev founder here.

I think the biggest difference is that Nango lets you customize & extend the unified APIs on the platform.

Usually unified APIs mitigate their limited catalog with passthrough/proxy requests. But this is a partial solution, since you go back to having a lot of integration logic in your code base.

With Nango these customizations live in the unified API itself and benefit from all the infrastructure available there (OAuth, rate-limit handling, pagination, de-duplication of records, etc.). You can also build entirely custom integrations in Nango.

That being said, I think open-source unified APIs have a ton of promise! It is great to see the ecosystem grow :)

Re: Show HN: Revert – Open-source unified API for product integrations

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Post by zicon35 »

robbiemitchell wrote: post #25

As a Zapier user looking to go with something private for new use cases, how does this compare to an on-prem n8n.io?

Great question!

We're different from n8n in the sense that we help you build native integrations with APIs and not in a no-code way.

We will help you build an integration of Slack (for eg) within your product with your users/customers, natively.

That means, your end-users or customers will not know that you are using our APIs underneath as Revert can be fully white-labelled.

We don't offer a workflow UI like n8n at all.

Happy to answer any further questions on this. Feel free to book a time from our cal if you think this could be relevant for you!

Cheers.

Re: Show HN: Revert – Open-source unified API for product integrations

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Post by zicon35 »

rguldener wrote: post #27
mjirv wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nice! We could be in the market for something like this soon. What’s your quick pitch for why someone should use Revert vs competitors like Merge.dev and Nango?

https://www.nango.dev founder here. I think the biggest difference is that Nango lets you customize & extend the unified APIs on the platform. Usually unified APIs mitigate their limited catalog with passthrough/proxy requests. But this is a partial solution, since you go back to having a lot of integration logic in your code base. With Nango these customizations live in the unified API itself and benefit from all th…

We agree on the promise for sure! :)

Re: Show HN: Revert – Open-source unified API for product integrations

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Post by SimianLogic »

Can you explain your thoughts on pricing on the hosted version? $40/connection seems much higher than your competitors and a total non-starter. Most open source projects seem to aim for “healthy margin over self hosting” but with even modest usage (1k connections) this becomes prohibitively expensive.
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