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

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Post by verdverm »

eatonphil wrote: post #34
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.

Eh I don't see too many like that and even if some customers do show up to give meaningful testimony I think that's fine and useful. The few that are meaningless got voted down and will be dead soon.

It was more concentrated when the post had fewer comments. HN regulars are now more of the comments.

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

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Post by bradmenezes »

Seich wrote: post #26

This could be really useful in healthtech, is it HIPAA compliant by any chance?

We aren't yet HIPAA compliant (yet), we recently got SOC2 compliance working with a compliance vendor to do more certifications. One thing is that with our on-prem agent your customer data never leaves your VPC.

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

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Post by phoenixbox »

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…

Yeah pretty much, help me get to a data connected state as fast as possible so I have an app / view to share with someone. It's likely an app has a user's table with created ts, help me generate a chart of signups over last 30 days or something rather than having me manually create an app, drag in a chart, nav about to connect pg and then write the basic SQL. Then once I have a working base I can explore from there

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

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Post by verdverm »

Nimsical wrote: post #35

[Disclaimer: my company is using Superblocks and have been paying for it for about a year] Been reading the comments and I think there are a bunch of questions about why companies would use a tool like this and that integrating your product / company into it is potentially risky. Here's why we decided to use it. First thing you should know is that before we moved to Superblocks, we were using a combination of Retool,…

As a developer, the other concerns that I always want to be addressed around RPA / UI based tools are (1) how do I solve my problem when it outgrows the bounds of the product, yeah, you kinda have custom code I can enter via the webpage, but... (2) why do I have to use & learn your UI, let me use my normal tools

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

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Post by bespokealgo »

andybak wrote: post #15

I 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, bu…

(One of the developers of Superblocks here)

Thanks for the feedback - our docs are more text heavy and might be better suited for skimming. Our quick start guide might be a good starting point: https://docs.superblocks.com/getting-started/5-min-quickstar...

There isn't any drag and drop when it comes to programming in Superblocks. You can write good ol' regular Python/JS to create APIs and program your event handlers in the UI!

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

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Post by ranma »

shrisukhani wrote: post #31

Looks great. Might be simplifying too much but is it basically like Retool + cron jobs? Super interesting if that's the case :)

Hi, creator of Superblocks here. We are 100% focused on developers and our goal is to make the onboarding experience seamless. We've seen many of our customers consolidate different tools so they can manage dashboards, workflows (APIs), cron jobs, all in one place. We also have a different architecture than Retool where there is significantly lower overhead for the customer because we offer a lightweight agent rather than a fully on-prem installation. Happy to dive into more details with you!

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

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Post by [deleted] »

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.

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

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Post by pvg »

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.

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

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Post by bradmenezes »

verdverm wrote: post #44
Nimsical wrote: post #35

[Disclaimer: my company is using Superblocks and have been paying for it for about a year] Been reading the comments and I think there are a bunch of questions about why companies would use a tool like this and that integrating your product / company into it is potentially risky. Here's why we decided to use it. First thing you should know is that before we moved to Superblocks, we were using a combination of Retool,…

As a developer, the other concerns that I always want to be addressed around RPA / UI based tools are (1) how do I solve my problem when it outgrows the bounds of the product, yeah, you kinda have custom code I can enter via the webpage, but... (2) why do I have to use & learn your UI, let me use my normal tools

Are you looking for specifically to write code in say your own IDE like VSCode and we build a VScode extension?
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