Show HN: Fotion, user feedback tool that uses Notion databases as it's back end

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Post by adelowo » Thu, Nov 16, 2023, 3:10 AM UTC

Show HN: Fotion, user feedback tool that uses Notion databases as it's back end
usefotion.app

Re: Show HN: Fotion, user feedback tool that uses Notion databases as it's back end

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Post by yawnxyz » Thu, Nov 16, 2023, 3:55 AM UTC

I've built a full blogging system like Carrd / linktree on top of Notion and it's so refreshingly easy.

The only downside is their native JS API is so darn slow — sometimes easily 30s wait, so I have to create another cache layer on top of it with Cloudflare KV, which isn't ideal. How are you dealing with that aspect?

Re: Show HN: Fotion, user feedback tool that uses Notion databases as it's back end

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Post by enesakar » Thu, Nov 16, 2023, 10:49 AM UTC

yawnxyz wrote: post #2

I've built a full blogging system like Carrd / linktree on top of Notion and it's so refreshingly easy. The only downside is their native JS API is so darn slow — sometimes easily 30s wait, so I have to create another cache layer on top of it with Cloudflare KV, which isn't ideal. How are you dealing with that aspect?

upstash redis

Re: Show HN: Fotion, user feedback tool that uses Notion databases as it's back end

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Post by Obscurity4340 » Thu, Nov 16, 2023, 7:21 PM UTC

What do you think about Anytype?

Re: Show HN: Fotion, user feedback tool that uses Notion databases as it's back end

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Post by adelowo » Fri, Nov 17, 2023, 3:45 PM UTC

yawnxyz wrote: post #2

I've built a full blogging system like Carrd / linktree on top of Notion and it's so refreshingly easy. The only downside is their native JS API is so darn slow — sometimes easily 30s wait, so I have to create another cache layer on top of it with Cloudflare KV, which isn't ideal. How are you dealing with that aspect?

I have not seen 30s wait times but like another comment suggested, I use Redis then incrementally process the requests to Notion. If they fail, I add to a poison queue and retry