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Re: Show HN: Parabola.io – Automate your work with visual programming

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Post by jermaustin1 »

crankylinuxuser wrote: post #28
alexyaseen wrote: post #5

Hi HN! I’m Alex from Parabola ( https://parabola.io ). Parabola is a visual programming tool for creating functional data flows that everyone can use. It’s entirely drag-and-drop, handles data sizes much larger than a traditional spreadsheet, calculates everything live, and can run your flows on a schedule of your choosing. I used to work in strategy consulting, doing data analytics for SMBs and Fortune 500 companies…

Greetings! I'll get straight to the point. I've used Node-Red ( https://nodered.org ) in building my own IoT network along with automating quite a lot of things. I run my own Node-Red instance locally as well as online. Node-red has 1500 different functionality plugins, including things like "push flow to another node-red installation". Node-red also uses javascript as its frontend and backend. I can share whole code…

My time is more valuable than running, managing, maintaining, and monitoring a VPS just to save $180/mo.

If I've saved 1.5 hours, it's paid for itself, and I've been freed up to be productive on other things, like watching YouTube.

Re: Show HN: Parabola.io – Automate your work with visual programming

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Post by fphhotchips »

alexyaseen wrote: post #5

Hi HN! I’m Alex from Parabola ( https://parabola.io ). Parabola is a visual programming tool for creating functional data flows that everyone can use. It’s entirely drag-and-drop, handles data sizes much larger than a traditional spreadsheet, calculates everything live, and can run your flows on a schedule of your choosing. I used to work in strategy consulting, doing data analytics for SMBs and Fortune 500 companies…

This feels like an IPaaS to me - pricing aside, how would you compare this to built.io, SnapLogic, Jitterbit, Informatica and Boomi?

Disclosure: recent ex-employee of SnapLogic.

Re: Show HN: Parabola.io – Automate your work with visual programming

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Post by statictype »

crankylinuxuser wrote: post #28
alexyaseen wrote: post #5

Hi HN! I’m Alex from Parabola ( https://parabola.io ). Parabola is a visual programming tool for creating functional data flows that everyone can use. It’s entirely drag-and-drop, handles data sizes much larger than a traditional spreadsheet, calculates everything live, and can run your flows on a schedule of your choosing. I used to work in strategy consulting, doing data analytics for SMBs and Fortune 500 companies…

Greetings! I'll get straight to the point. I've used Node-Red ( https://nodered.org ) in building my own IoT network along with automating quite a lot of things. I run my own Node-Red instance locally as well as online. Node-red has 1500 different functionality plugins, including things like "push flow to another node-red installation". Node-red also uses javascript as its frontend and backend. I can share whole code…

I suppose with that logic you don’t even need node red. You could just put your requirements into a .js file.

What’s your buy-in? What are you doing with node red that can’t be done with a text editor and npm?

Re: Show HN: Parabola.io – Automate your work with visual programming

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Post by tomglynch »

alexyaseen wrote: post #5

Hi HN! I’m Alex from Parabola ( https://parabola.io ). Parabola is a visual programming tool for creating functional data flows that everyone can use. It’s entirely drag-and-drop, handles data sizes much larger than a traditional spreadsheet, calculates everything live, and can run your flows on a schedule of your choosing. I used to work in strategy consulting, doing data analytics for SMBs and Fortune 500 companies…

Hi Alex, I see in your examples section the pulling data from various cryptocurrency API's. I see a lot of potential in your product through targeting the cryptocurrency market. Is this a direct goal of yours or just a use case?

Re: Show HN: Parabola.io – Automate your work with visual programming

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Post by alexyaseen »

tomglynch wrote: post #34
alexyaseen wrote: post #5

Hi HN! I’m Alex from Parabola ( https://parabola.io ). Parabola is a visual programming tool for creating functional data flows that everyone can use. It’s entirely drag-and-drop, handles data sizes much larger than a traditional spreadsheet, calculates everything live, and can run your flows on a schedule of your choosing. I used to work in strategy consulting, doing data analytics for SMBs and Fortune 500 companies…

Hi Alex, I see in your examples section the pulling data from various cryptocurrency API's. I see a lot of potential in your product through targeting the cryptocurrency market. Is this a direct goal of yours or just a use case?

I'd classify it as a budding use case but one we're really interested in! Anything specific you're trying to do or would like to see Parabola support? Would love to hear more - hi [at] parabola.io

Re: Show HN: Parabola.io – Automate your work with visual programming

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Post by pier25 »

jermaustin1 wrote: post #31
crankylinuxuser wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Greetings! I'll get straight to the point. I've used Node-Red ( https://nodered.org ) in building my own IoT network along with automating quite a lot of things. I run my own Node-Red instance locally as well as online. Node-red has 1500 different functionality plugins, including things like "push flow to another node-red installation". Node-red also uses javascript as its frontend and backend. I can share whole code…

My time is more valuable than running, managing, maintaining, and monitoring a VPS just to save $180/mo. If I've saved 1.5 hours, it's paid for itself, and I've been freed up to be productive on other things, like watching YouTube.

With cloud functions you don’t really need to do any of that

Re: Show HN: Parabola.io – Automate your work with visual programming

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Post by boyd »

alexyaseen wrote: post #5

Hi HN! I’m Alex from Parabola ( https://parabola.io ). Parabola is a visual programming tool for creating functional data flows that everyone can use. It’s entirely drag-and-drop, handles data sizes much larger than a traditional spreadsheet, calculates everything live, and can run your flows on a schedule of your choosing. I used to work in strategy consulting, doing data analytics for SMBs and Fortune 500 companies…

Request for your kind consideration: I completely empathize with the need to tier your pricing based on features, and have certain items that one only gets for "contact us"-level pricing.

But, I am very bummed out every time I see a startup where SSO is that feature. SAML/Okta, fine, whatever. But, it'd be really nice for any little startup to be able to let their users log in with G Suite and get two factor and all of the other security niceties that come with it. Letting folks adopt security best practices shouldn't cost them money (and isn't really core to your value prop). Just my two cents.

Ps. With GDPR coming into effect, and all the surrounding brouhaha, this is particularly important as many of your use cases are going to be piping around and manipulating user data.

Re: Show HN: Parabola.io – Automate your work with visual programming

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Post by IloveHN84 »

alexyaseen wrote: post #5

Hi HN! I’m Alex from Parabola ( https://parabola.io ). Parabola is a visual programming tool for creating functional data flows that everyone can use. It’s entirely drag-and-drop, handles data sizes much larger than a traditional spreadsheet, calculates everything live, and can run your flows on a schedule of your choosing. I used to work in strategy consulting, doing data analytics for SMBs and Fortune 500 companies…

It would be cool to have the tool working also in offline scenarios, where no internet connection is possible, tough an automated workflow is still needed/possible
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