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Re: Show HN: Revert – Open-source unified API for product integrations

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Post by zicon35 »

Hi HN! Allen & Jatin here, co-founders of Revert.dev

Integrations require a lot more engineering time, resources, and ongoing maintenance than you would first expect.

When building your own integrations you have to deal with challenges, such as: - unreliable third party integration endpoints, which fail or hang more often than you think; - monitoring and reliability of the integration code; dealing with different schemas, gotchas, rate-limits of the various APIs you integrate with. - You need to do this all alongside maintaining your own code base.

This is what we’re solving for at Revert.

With Revert you can ship a reliable product integration in under 2 days, and we take care of all of the above and more.

- We current support CRMs such as Salesforce, Hubspot, ZohoCRM & Pipedrive through our APIs.

- We also support Slack (in beta) alongside Discord that will be supported this week. Our roadmap is public — https://github.com/revertinc/revert/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3...

- We’re open-source (https://github.com/revertinc/revert) and want to build the project with the community in the open. If you’d like an integration you can add one & welcome contributions!

Would love to get the community’s feedback.

Re: Show HN: Revert – Open-source unified API for product integrations

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Post by CodingPanda42 »

zicon35 wrote: post #2

Hi HN! Allen & Jatin here, co-founders of Revert.dev Integrations require a lot more engineering time, resources, and ongoing maintenance than you would first expect. When building your own integrations you have to deal with challenges, such as: - unreliable third party integration endpoints, which fail or hang more often than you think; - monitoring and reliability of the integration code; dealing with different sch…

Looks interesting, out of curiosity - what made you decide to go open source?

Re: Show HN: Revert – Open-source unified API for product integrations

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Post by wiradikusuma »

CodingPanda42 wrote: post #3
zicon35 wrote: post #2

Hi HN! Allen & Jatin here, co-founders of Revert.dev Integrations require a lot more engineering time, resources, and ongoing maintenance than you would first expect. When building your own integrations you have to deal with challenges, such as: - unreliable third party integration endpoints, which fail or hang more often than you think; - monitoring and reliability of the integration code; dealing with different sch…

Looks interesting, out of curiosity - what made you decide to go open source?

The pricing page (https://www.revert.dev/#pricing) doesn't even mention it ("self-hosted" or "community" or something like that). Or is that intentional to cater different audience?

Re: Show HN: Revert – Open-source unified API for product integrations

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Post by zicon35 »

wiradikusuma wrote: post #4
CodingPanda42 wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Looks interesting, out of curiosity - what made you decide to go open source?

The pricing page ( https://www.revert.dev/#pricing ) doesn't even mention it ("self-hosted" or "community" or something like that). Or is that intentional to cater different audience?

Hi, open-source/community edition is free and you can just host it via docker compose in your own infra. We're adding that to the pricing page as well very soon.

Re: Show HN: Revert – Open-source unified API for product integrations

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Post by zicon35 »

CodingPanda42 wrote: post #3
zicon35 wrote: post #2

Hi HN! Allen & Jatin here, co-founders of Revert.dev Integrations require a lot more engineering time, resources, and ongoing maintenance than you would first expect. When building your own integrations you have to deal with challenges, such as: - unreliable third party integration endpoints, which fail or hang more often than you think; - monitoring and reliability of the integration code; dealing with different sch…

Looks interesting, out of curiosity - what made you decide to go open source?

We believe an open source unified API enables us to cover the long tail of third party APIs while empowering engineers to customise the integration code we offer out of the box.

This way engineers can use us over building an integration from scratch. Even if that means that they use the self-hosted version and not the hosted version that we have.

Re: Show HN: Revert – Open-source unified API for product integrations

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Post by zicon35 »

CodingPanda42 wrote: post #3
zicon35 wrote: post #2

Hi HN! Allen & Jatin here, co-founders of Revert.dev Integrations require a lot more engineering time, resources, and ongoing maintenance than you would first expect. When building your own integrations you have to deal with challenges, such as: - unreliable third party integration endpoints, which fail or hang more often than you think; - monitoring and reliability of the integration code; dealing with different sch…

Looks interesting, out of curiosity - what made you decide to go open source?

The other aspect of this is that our community is helping us build integrations much faster.

Our customers (i.e, developers) can also help us build a better product. This way it helps everyone in the long run and developers are not repeating this work again and again!

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