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

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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's a very nice idea but these tools always have limitations that become super annoying after a while.

Programming is total freedom to do what you want and these tools try to make it look like you cab drag and drop data flows together and it will just work in a optimal way. And it will at first, until your first special or odd requirement needs to somehow be implemented in that tool.

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

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Post by amanzi »

boyd wrote: post #39
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…

I agree - I often see companies offer security features for "premium" customers only. This is the wrong approach and I wish more services focused on security first and then price the premium features accordingly.

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

#43

Post by nathan_f77 »

This looks really awesome! I would love to build an integration for FormAPI [1], which would allow people to fill in PDFs. We would save the PDFs to Dropbox or send them as an email.

I'll send a message on the site chat!

[1] https://formapi.io

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

#44

Post by murukesh_s »

some_account wrote: post #41
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's a very nice idea but these tools always have limitations that become super annoying after a while. Programming is total freedom to do what you want and these tools try to make it look like you cab drag and drop data flows together and it will just work in a optimal way. And it will at first, until your first special or odd requirement needs to somehow be implemented in that tool.

Why can't you use a coding widget(not sure if this tool supports it) in those special cases? In that way common things are super easy and you can also tackle those corner cases as well.

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

#45

Post by pookeh »

IloveHN84 wrote: post #40
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

What kind of integrations would you expect in an offline feature? Do you have a specific use case in your industry?

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

#47

Post by hacker_9 »

murukesh_s wrote: post #44
some_account wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's a very nice idea but these tools always have limitations that become super annoying after a while. Programming is total freedom to do what you want and these tools try to make it look like you cab drag and drop data flows together and it will just work in a optimal way. And it will at first, until your first special or odd requirement needs to somehow be implemented in that tool.

Why can't you use a coding widget(not sure if this tool supports it) in those special cases? In that way common things are super easy and you can also tackle those corner cases as well.

But who is writing the widget? If it's a programmer, then why is he using this tool when most of this stuff is one liners in code anyway? And if it's a non-programmer, he now can't do something that he may have still been able to do in excel.

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

#48

Post by ggg9990 »

amanzi wrote: post #42
boyd wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

I agree - I often see companies offer security features for "premium" customers only. This is the wrong approach and I wish more services focused on security first and then price the premium features accordingly.

The problem is that security is often the feature that has the biggest gap between how much the end user cares about it and how much the IT buyer cares about it, which makes it perfect as an upsell.

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

#49

Post by hestefisk »

pookeh wrote: post #45
IloveHN84 wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

What kind of integrations would you expect in an offline feature? Do you have a specific use case in your industry?

Payments, PCI DSS for instance.
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