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Show HN: SandFaux – Your sandbox and our faux data

https://www.sandfaux.com

After countless (TRULY COUNTLESS) hours of manually seeding and resetting Salesforce sandboxes for our sales demos and integration testing, we couldn’t take it anymore.

SandFaux started as an internal tool for this tedious process, but after a few customers asked for access, we decided to productize it & make it publicly available for anyone to use!

This was really just the starting point for our internal tool. We want to also add:

* Text Prompting for Scenarios

* Custom Fields

* Custom Configurations

* Dynamic Data

* More Integrations

https://sandfaux.com

( 8 comments | 12 points | on HN )
Re:Show HN: SandFaux – Your sandbox and our faux data by JTyQZSnP3cQGa8B on Wednesday August 14, 2024 @03:09PM (#41249464)
You should explain what a "salesforce sandbox" is, because it’s not obvious at all. I use salesforce at work because I have to, but I have never seen a sandbox inside.
Re:Show HN: SandFaux – Your sandbox and our faux data by garysahota93 on Wednesday August 14, 2024 @04:00PM (#41249915)
It's a great question!

A sandbox is a testing environment that isolates untested changes & experimentations from the production environments.

Chances are if you're using Salesforce for work, it's the "production" instance that is meant for prime-time. There is probably some admin/developer/IT person in your company that has access to creating sandboxes to test changes before they push to everyone else.

fwiw typically this is used by larger companies & isn't as useful for small startups.

Re:Show HN: SandFaux – Your sandbox and our faux data by kraftman on Wednesday August 14, 2024 @02:09PM (#41248897)
How is this pronounced?
Re:Show HN: SandFaux – Your sandbox and our faux data by wild_egg on Wednesday August 14, 2024 @02:28PM (#41249064)
This seemed an odd question until I noticed the logo. Now my brain hurts.
Re:Show HN: SandFaux – Your sandbox and our faux data by garysahota93 on Wednesday August 14, 2024 @04:03PM (#41249940)
Haha!! This was meant to be a provactive conversation.

It's pronounced "Sand-Fox".

But the genesis of this Sandbox + Fake data (Faux). But given Fox rhymes with Box, we thought we'd be cheeky about it lol

Re:Show HN: SandFaux – Your sandbox and our faux data by Mesmoria on Wednesday August 14, 2024 @06:30PM (#41251221)
That's a little confusing because faux is pronounced fo or foe.
Re:Show HN: SandFaux – Your sandbox and our faux data by kraftman on Wednesday August 14, 2024 @02:31PM (#41249095)
yeah especially with 'Your Sandbox + Our Faux Data = <fox emoji>'
Re:Show HN: SandFaux – Your sandbox and our faux data by dannyphantom on Wednesday August 14, 2024 @08:07PM (#41252016)
Wow, this is actually really cool and absolutely something I find value in. The integration was smooth and data generation was quick. Previously used Mockaroo but that shoots out an excel sheet which just adds additional steps to getting the data into Salesforce whereas this was seamless.

Congrats on shipping and thanks for sharing it!