Retool Copy Cats
is it just me or are there a ton of retool copycats these days?- appsmith - superblocks - budibase - airplane.devwhat gives??
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Best way to build a integration solution for a SaaS platform
We're building integrations for our customers to extract data from legacy on-premise or cloud-hosted, but still old sources (think medical records, HR record servers, etc), centalize it, display it, etc.These tools each have convoluted HTTP REST / SOAP APIsHow would you go about architecting a solution that allows a customer to self-serve connect to their sources and our product would then...
PSA: Warning to Investors who don't disclose conflicts of interest
PSA: The next investor to try do a fundraising call or ask for materials without disclosing a conflict of interest will be publicly rebuked on the internet on all forums.That is all.I've had to start running through a workflow at the beginning of fundraising calls to force VCs to list any companies they've invested-in that might be competitive. It would shock you how many attempt to hide...
American Company Spinning-up an office in Europe
(For American companies / founders only)What has your company experienced in starting engineering-focused offices in Europe? In major cities such as London, Berlin, Lisbon, Prague, etc.What unique benefits are you seeing? How did you go about recruiting? Would you do it again? What unique challenges or stumbling-blocks did you face?
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2022)
on Monday August 01, 2022 @04:12PM (#32311455)
Our startup has had great success in terms of employee quality by poaching employees from other companies.
We want to know, how can we improve our first poaching emails to potential candidates?
What sort of email containing what info/perks/personal attention would get YOUR attention, as an engineer/developer, from a prospective new employer?
Tips for having a high productivity remote company?
We're building a product that from a technical perspective, is extremely "nitty-gritty". It is complex, feature-rich, and has a non-negligible degree of technical risk.What are your tips for running a successful remote-based company building something like this?
How to allow users to execute code on my SaaS product server-side?
As the title states, I'd like to allow my users to execute arbitrary code they write on our servers. Obviously, this has major security implications.What would be the best approach as far as containerizing + sandboxing the execution runtime, such that they can execute code from various languages like Python, Node.js, etc. without something "escaping" into our EC2 instances for instance (pun...