Show HN: BackendLab – Code-free web app builder

Re:Show HN: BackendLab – Code-free web app builder by lucaslee on Sunday October 14, 2018 @12:54PM (#18213809)

Why only backend? You are competing with other solutions out there that have a frontend available directly from db schema. Some examples: https://www.salesforce.com/products/platform/overview/ https://github.com/sferik/rails_admin

I am not totally clear who your target customers are. I think backend alone will be a barrier for a non-technical person. For a developer, as said by others, CRUD/authentication usually isn't the most time consuming part.

With that said, congrats on shipping! I know this is a work in progress. I think your landing page needs more work/content too. Good luck!

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Re:Show HN: BackendLab – Code-free web app builder by codenesium on Sunday October 14, 2018 @03:21PM (#18214631)

There is a patent troll who owns creating a frontend from a database. He's successfully sued Microsoft and Oracle and put a code generation product out if business. So I'd tread carefully there.

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Re:Show HN: BackendLab – Code-free web app builder by chris140957 on Sunday October 14, 2018 @03:38PM (#18214775)

Interesting, thanks for the heads up. But is this likely to be an issue for a UK-based startup? I understand its a bigger problem in the US

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Re:Show HN: BackendLab – Code-free web app builder by codenesium on Saturday October 20, 2018 @12:20PM (#18263960)

Probably not if you're UK based.

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Re:Show HN: BackendLab – Code-free web app builder by tyingq on Sunday October 14, 2018 @01:09PM (#18213888)

Postgrest[1] is similar, and seems very popular, so this sort of thing is scratching somebody's itch.

[1] https://github.com/PostgREST/postgrest

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Re:Show HN: BackendLab – Code-free web app builder by cies on Sunday October 14, 2018 @01:26PM (#18213984)

This needs someone with db skills (yet works well for someone without BE dev skills) though.

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