Isn't 30$ per 1000 tasks too much, considering the competition?
Launch HN: Paragon (YC W20) – Visually Build API Workflows
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#12Love your landing page -- was it designed by a professional?
Thank you! Our cofounder @fooly_wk did it himself. We've built everything in house.
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#13Congrats on the launch! I especially liked the Typeform for early access!
Thank you!
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#14This looks promising. The pricing seems like it only works with tasks that are very rare and high value though. Do users have the ability add their own building blocks?
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#15Love it. I dream about this all the time. Hook them up w Kafka? How is Swagger/OpenAPI used? Airflow?
Hey! We're not exposing anything like Kafka to our end users. We think all of the underlying technical infrastructure should be abstracted so the users can focus on their core logic. We're also not currently exposing any external Swagger / OpenAPI docs for a similar reason, but it's simple to integrate and we've considered generating it for our more technical users. If you're interested in joining the team as an engi…
+1 for Swagger/OpenAPI
I'd be interested in providing a way for PM's to control/maintain business logic, exposing it to external technical users.
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#16Waiting for BaaS solutions to become mature for a long time now.
Big fan of the direction Hasura is taking. Maybe this could also cover some of the BaaS aspects? E.g. enabling frontend devs to deliver fully-fledged products without much knowledge about backend and databases?
One thing which disturbs me: I have to fill out an entire typeform just to get told that there is no free-tier and I have to pay 30$/month before even testing if this thing covers my most trivial needs. I think that's a dark pattern, I am out, sorry.
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hey! We're not exposing anything like Kafka to our end users. We think all of the underlying technical infrastructure should be abstracted so the users can focus on their core logic. We're also not currently exposing any external Swagger / OpenAPI docs for a similar reason, but it's simple to integrate and we've considered generating it for our more technical users. If you're interested in joining the team as an engi…
+1 for Swagger/OpenAPI I'd be interested in providing a way for PM's to control/maintain business logic, exposing it to external technical users.
Noted, adding your use case to our internal board
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#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hey! We're not exposing anything like Kafka to our end users. We think all of the underlying technical infrastructure should be abstracted so the users can focus on their core logic. We're also not currently exposing any external Swagger / OpenAPI docs for a similar reason, but it's simple to integrate and we've considered generating it for our more technical users. If you're interested in joining the team as an engi…
+1 for Swagger/OpenAPI I'd be interested in providing a way for PM's to control/maintain business logic, exposing it to external technical users.
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#19Isn't 30$ per 1000 tasks too much, considering the competition?
Right now, $30/mo is for access to Paragon and the your first 1,000 tasks. We provide additional pricing tiers for higher usage where the cost/task drops significantly.
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#20Waiting for BaaS solutions to become mature for a long time now. Big fan of the direction Hasura is taking. Maybe this could also cover some of the BaaS aspects? E.g. enabling frontend devs to deliver fully-fledged products without much knowledge about backend and databases? One thing which disturbs me: I have to fill out an entire typeform just to get told that there is no free-tier and I have to pay 30$/month befor…
Absolutely - our vision is that one day frontend devs will be able to spin up entire backends on Paragon, and just need to plug in their database / email provider / etc. of choice.
Appreciate your feedback on our onboarding flow, you're right and I apologize for any misunderstanding. We'll update our flow to better reflect our pricing.