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Show HN: Canonic: A low-code platform to build APIs in minutes

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Re: Show HN: Canonic: A low-code platform to build APIs in minutes

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Post by prathama »

bketelsen wrote: post #2

looks pretty interesting, but as a developer why would I commit to spending time learning and using this product without even a hint of what the pricing will be? That's a non-starter.

You make a really valid point. We've been testing the product by putting it out there to get feedback and validation, and then work on our pricing strategy based on the positioning we take. Given our architecture, one of our aims was to offer a free forever plan, the other was to have an eject strategy so that you can take you project with you as a complete and functional code repository.

We feel that currently, the learning curve is pretty minimal. Given the hours it'll save one from coding, maintaining and bug fixing. However, we will definitely keep this in mind when thinking ahead.

Thank you so much for the feedback!

Re: Show HN: Canonic: A low-code platform to build APIs in minutes

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Post by lgreiv »

I feel like this could become a go-to service for experimenting and prototyping APIs for me, given a reasonable pricing model.

A few oddities caught my eye, though, e.g. duplicates of the edited field were created when leaving the field panel.

Is there a plan to add a feature to export the API in a standard like OpenAPI?

Re: Show HN: Canonic: A low-code platform to build APIs in minutes

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Post by tom_walters »

Fantastic work. The on-boarding is excellent and first use is very intuitive. You've done a great job of abstracting away the complexity of defining the data models so that I was able to build and deploy an example in just a few minutes.

It's a snappy admin UI and I love the auto-generating docs. All around excellent job!

Re: Show HN: Canonic: A low-code platform to build APIs in minutes

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Post by sumoboy »

prathama wrote: post #3
bketelsen wrote: post #2

looks pretty interesting, but as a developer why would I commit to spending time learning and using this product without even a hint of what the pricing will be? That's a non-starter.

You make a really valid point. We've been testing the product by putting it out there to get feedback and validation, and then work on our pricing strategy based on the positioning we take. Given our architecture, one of our aims was to offer a free forever plan, the other was to have an eject strategy so that you can take you project with you as a complete and functional code repository. We feel that currently, the…

Without any of pricing I've already forgot about this product.
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