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

Post by michaelmior » Fri, Oct 16, 2020, 11:34 AM UTC

blacksmith_tb wrote: post #23

michaelmior wrote: post #9

> the fastest way to solution it I've never heard "solution" used as a verb before. It reads rather odd to me, but the product seems interesting :)

A trend in modern English, I'd say - though not necessarily an improvement, e.g. "he gave me a book -> he gifted me a book" and here, like you pointed out, they could easily have said "the fastest way to solve it" instead.

Post by blacksmith_tb » Fri, Oct 16, 2020, 4:03 PM UTC

michaelmior wrote: post #31

blacksmith_tb wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A trend in modern English, I'd say - though not necessarily an improvement, e.g. "he gave me a book -> he gifted me a book" and here, like you pointed out, they could easily have said "the fastest way to solve it" instead.

I agree that's true. But gift as a verb has apparently been around since the 17th century[0] and doesn't sound as odd to me as using solution as a verb. [0] https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2014/12/gi...

Post by prathama » Sat, Oct 17, 2020, 7:19 AM UTC

CallMeJim wrote: post #30

So I've spent a bit of time playing around with this (self taught dev, mostly front-end) - really impressed so far. The app is a bit buggy and features are relatively sparse, but it is intuitive to use and I can see the promise. Within 20 minutes, I had an API structure fairly well plotted out, along with REST endpoints, a GraphQL schema and playground, documentation, and places to add webhooks (although no way to pr…