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Show HN: Forest Admin Cloud

Hi all, Sandro here, founder of Forest Admin. We’re thrilled to announce the launch of Forest Admin Cloud (https://forestadmin.com/cloud). With it, you can instantly create a fully-functional admin panel without needing to start from scratch or use an internal tool builder, no BS!

The magic of our technology is that it automatically generates a custom user interface and all the necessary API endpoints for it to generate your admin panel. Whether it’s to read data from your web app in an organized way, to manipulate it, to trigger actions, to configure complex workflows with a granular permission system... Forest Admin has everything covered to accompany very early-stage startups to huge scale ups (+2k active users on the same account for our biggest customer!).

We believe this is a game-changer for the market, as internal tools become increasingly popular. An admin panel is meant to be the heart of your business operations, and it deserves a proper product reflection. Much in the same way that Salesforce and HubSpot develop products for their CRMs, Zendesk and Front for support, etc. These are all internal tools, but specialized in a specific field, allowing them to go much further than what a person could create with an internal tool builder.

Our lumberjacks and lumberjills are really working hard on that product. The road is still long to become ISO-feature of Forest Admins self-hosted (which will remain always available). We are actively working on new features that will bring maximum flexibility and autonomy as quickly as possible, through no/low/full-code functionalities.

If you have 5 minutes to spare, it would be great to give it a try. And if you have any feedback, opinion, or advice - please leave a comment below! Our whole team is watching this thread, awaiting for interaction :)

https://forestadmin.com/cloud

( 7 comments | 14 points | on HN )
Re:Show HN: Forest Admin Cloud by marcpp on Tuesday April 11, 2023 @08:32AM (#35524252)
For the past few months we've been building no-code features like Workspaces that give non-tech users great powers of customization. Forest Admin Cloud makes all of that even more accessible and it makes so much sense: now basically anyone can launch their own admin panel in just a few clicks, no technical knowledge required, then build highly customizable interfaces on top of that. Game changer indeed!
Re:Show HN: Forest Admin Cloud by christophepas on Tuesday April 11, 2023 @08:20AM (#35524125)
We've been using Forest for... 5 years? for our team, you created something special!
Re:Show HN: Forest Admin Cloud by mtmail on Tuesday April 11, 2023 @08:33AM (#35524263)
Commenting two minutes after the Show HN was created suggests the author asked friends to come to HN to comment. I'd like to point to the guidelines "Please don't ask friends to upvote or comment. That's not ok on HN." https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
Re:Show HN: Forest Admin Cloud by seyz on Tuesday April 11, 2023 @08:39AM (#35524315)
I plead guilty :-) I yelled in the office that I had launched Forest Admin Cloud on hacker news... I guess it is a shared office effect
Re:Show HN: Forest Admin Cloud by mtmail on Tuesday April 11, 2023 @09:06AM (#35524573)
Hmm, I can't see the submission on https://news.ycombinator.com/show yet. Could be a sign most upvotes were not counted or the flagged-comment (brand new account who immediately praise how great something is) to upvote ratio is too high now. Best option is to submit again in a couple of hours, same title and text. Try first comment "author/maintainer/creator/team here, happy to answer questions" or a variation, that often works.
Re:Show HN: Forest Admin Cloud by seyz on Tuesday April 11, 2023 @09:10AM (#35524622)
Got it, thanks for the advice mtmail!
Re:Show HN: Forest Admin Cloud by seyz on Tuesday April 11, 2023 @08:22AM (#35524160)
Oh @christophepas! Glad to see you here :-) Thanks for the kind words!