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Show HN: 8base – Ready-to-Rock GraphQL API and Serverless Back End

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Re: Show HN: 8base – Ready-to-Rock GraphQL API and Serverless Back End

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Post by sgrove »

dosh1965 wrote: post #60
codebeast wrote: post #12

Super stoked to see 8base out here. I love JAMstack and I love how 8base fills up the data layer for my JAMstack projects nicely. You will know what I am talking about if you have spent days trying to setup a GraphQL backend for JAMstack project. I wrote about how I use 8base for JAMstack on CSS Tricks few months ago https://css-tricks.com/hey-lets-create-a-functional-calendar... . I use 8base extensively and happy t…

Easily helps with API integration challenges thru the GraphQL layer. For example, using a simple endpoint I can translate an image with a text overlay (constructed using a Cloudinary API) from English to any language (I'm in Spain at a conference now, so it's gotta be Spanish) like: Input: https://res.cloudinary.com/demo/image/upload/w_500/l_text:Ar... Output: https://res.cloudinary.com/demo/image/upload/w_500/l_text…

Oh, sounds interesting! How're you hitting Cloudinary from 8base - do you have an example?

Re: Show HN: 8base – Ready-to-Rock GraphQL API and Serverless Back End

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Post by BenjieGillam »

asantalo wrote: post #61
BenjieGillam wrote: post #59

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No problem; I saw 8base at one of the GraphQL conferences, looks cool. I agree: PostGraphile is intended for people who want to control their own servers (be that via serverless, containers, Heroku, or traditional servers).

Thanks Benjie, would love to connect with you at GraphQL Summit in San Francisco if you are attending in October. Let me know!

I’m going to be speaking at ReactiveConf in Prague, so sadly cannot make it to SF; hopefully see you at another conference though!

Re: Show HN: 8base – Ready-to-Rock GraphQL API and Serverless Back End

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Post by asantalo »

ilyalazarev wrote: post #72

Great job guys!!! UI is amazing, love it. Going to spend a few more days learning 8base. Do you have some kind of public roadmap with features coming?

Thanks for the kind words, Ilyalazarev. We don't publish a public roadmap but here are a few teasers of what is coming in the next few months: 1) For our advanced users we will be releasing the ability to create and manage views and indexes on the data. The views are totally GraphQL enabled. 2) Brand new user administration and user invitation capability. 3) Native Salesforce.com integration - Ability to expose a company's Salesforce.com instance via GraphQL and cross-connected with 8base data.

Lots more...

Re: Show HN: 8base – Ready-to-Rock GraphQL API and Serverless Back End

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Post by asantalo »

BenjieGillam wrote: post #73
asantalo wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks Benjie, would love to connect with you at GraphQL Summit in San Francisco if you are attending in October. Let me know!

I’m going to be speaking at ReactiveConf in Prague, so sadly cannot make it to SF; hopefully see you at another conference though!

Best of luck, Benjie. Yes, let's connect at the next one for sure!

Re: Show HN: 8base – Ready-to-Rock GraphQL API and Serverless Back End

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Post by johnnyballgame »

I signed up because of this post. I'm rather surprised I hadn't heard of 8base prior, it appears to be a killer product.

Best of luck to you guys!

As a side note... I'm working on some Gatsby projects and want to use 8base for the backend. The few tutorials I've seen so far seem to be loading data dynamically post-build versus creating static pages with data at build time. Do you have any examples of this yet?

Also, do you have an official Gatsby source plugin or are people generally using the generic "gatsby-source-graphql" plugin?

Re: Show HN: 8base – Ready-to-Rock GraphQL API and Serverless Back End

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Post by asantalo »

johnnyballgame wrote: post #76

I signed up because of this post. I'm rather surprised I hadn't heard of 8base prior, it appears to be a killer product. Best of luck to you guys! As a side note... I'm working on some Gatsby projects and want to use 8base for the backend. The few tutorials I've seen so far seem to be loading data dynamically post-build versus creating static pages with data at build time. Do you have any examples of this yet? Also,…

johnnyballgame, thanks so much for chiming in. I'm thrilled to hear you are using 8base with Gatsby. The team had a call with Jason Lengstorf recently to figure out exactly how to support this! As of now, you'll need to stick with the "gatsby-source-graphql" plugin. We'll work on some example content for creating statis pages at build time asap!

Re: Show HN: 8base – Ready-to-Rock GraphQL API and Serverless Back End

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Post by asantalo »

andric wrote: post #69
asantalo wrote: post #67

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Andric, this is great feedback and we appreciate it. As you probably know, pricing is a bit of an experiment as a company evolves so we are listening 100%.

Thank you for the quick response! You guys are building something really cool, I have no doubt that once you figure out pricing it has the potential to go viral. I’m a product/frontend guy who’s trying to build a side project, and backend stuff has always been a PITA for me to figure out. Right now I’m torn between investing time to learn AWS Amplify, or investing time to learn 8base. 8base has already captured my im…

Andric, please email me at albert@8base.com as I'd like to chat with you about this some more. Thank you.

Re: Show HN: 8base – Ready-to-Rock GraphQL API and Serverless Back End

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Post by asantalo »

gremlinsinc wrote: post #70
asantalo wrote: post #67

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Andric, this is great feedback and we appreciate it. As you probably know, pricing is a bit of an experiment as a company evolves so we are listening 100%.

Yeah that's basically my point when there's a new shiny framework or even a headless cms or something, we (devs) like to test it out a bit, and we might come back to it 5-10 times before actually pulling the trigger and using the service. Even all the major cloud platforms have free tiers for this reason - to get devs hooked on their platform so there is no other option they'd rather use. Not saying the free tier sho…

Gremlinsinc, please email me at albert@8base.com as I'd like to chat with you about this some more if you are up for it. Thank you.

Re: Show HN: 8base – Ready-to-Rock GraphQL API and Serverless Back End

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Post by mister_hn »

asantalo wrote: post #45
mister_hn wrote: post #7

Will you publish also a self-hosted variant?

mister_hn, We are really focused on being a production-ready hosted solution but who knows what the future holds. Keeping options open and eager to hear what you and other users think about that.

I would say that distributing the product also as self-hosted, on-premise option for privacy-focused and strictly certified environments (CC EAL) could be really great.
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