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

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

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Post by raviparikh »

hzeng0615 wrote: post #40

I have used airplane for scheduled jobs, I like their configuration/definition file driven development flow. I am not a fan of writting code in browser.

Airplane.dev founder here - glad to hear you like our approach! Many low-code/no-code tools miss the mark, in my opinion, by creating a walled garden / silo where you build stuff, which makes it hard to version control, leads to vendor lock-in, etc. Our approach has always been to allow users to write normal code that they store in their own repository.

Excited to see where Superblocks goes and whether it embraces that approach in the future.

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

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Post by pbardea »

victor9000 wrote: post #70

Question regarding: > while keeping Superblocks up-to-date from our cloud Does that mean that the OPA auto updates? Or is it saying that I can configure the frontend to use a custom backend?

Yep - it's the latter! You can self-host an instance of the OPA and configure your organization to point to that instance rather than the cloud hosted one. Our docs have a bit more detail: https://docs.superblocks.com/on-premise-agent/deployment

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

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Post by arey_abhishek »

I am a co-founder of a competing OSS product called Appsmith. I discovered Superblocks early this year and my first reaction was that the UI builder looks similar to Appsmith. Examined the DOM, and it was Appsmith code under the hood.

I’m new to the FOSS world and it was quite interesting to see someone use our project to compete with us.

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

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Post by ilaksh »

arey_abhishek wrote: post #76

I am a co-founder of a competing OSS product called Appsmith. I discovered Superblocks early this year and my first reaction was that the UI builder looks similar to Appsmith. Examined the DOM, and it was Appsmith code under the hood. I’m new to the FOSS world and it was quite interesting to see someone use our project to compete with us.

What is the license you are using?

If your intention is not to allow this, you could switch to AGPL.

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

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Post by andybak »

bespokealgo wrote: post #46
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…

Yep. That's exactly the thing I would have liked to have seen near the top.

To my mind, an amalgam of the gifs on that quickstart should be on your home page as the hero image.

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

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Post by verdverm »

bradmenezes wrote: post #50
verdverm wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

I use nvim, but yea, that is the point. Meet your users where they are, which is code for developers, not drag-n-drop, which is for non-developers. Pick your poison :]

Just to be clear, porting a drag-n-drop interface to VS Code is not meeting developers where they are.

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

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Post by arey_abhishek »

ilaksh wrote: post #77
arey_abhishek wrote: post #76

I am a co-founder of a competing OSS product called Appsmith. I discovered Superblocks early this year and my first reaction was that the UI builder looks similar to Appsmith. Examined the DOM, and it was Appsmith code under the hood. I’m new to the FOSS world and it was quite interesting to see someone use our project to compete with us.

What is the license you are using? If your intention is not to allow this, you could switch to AGPL.

We use the Apache 2.0 license and we don’t intend to change it. AGPL would restrict adoption. We have a few large companies that maintain Appsmith forks customised for their needs. A couple of them have made the product better. Only thing that I’d like is an acknowledgement at this point. An engineer from Superblocks spent hours of my team’s time asking questions about the project on our Discord community. We were too dim to realise that the engineer wasn’t interested in contributing but competing. It’s all perfectly legal, but definitely left a poor taste once we found the product.
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