bradmenezes

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by bradmenezes 3y ago
(Cofounder of Superblocks, an Airplane alternative) Congrats to the Airplane team for joining forces with Airtable, both teams and products are stellar and know people on both sides. Airplane has been a thought-leader in the code-first appr
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by bradmenezes 3y ago
Yes, you can use our postgres integration since Supabase is postgres compatible. Shoot me a note if i can help! brad at superblockshq.com
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Show HN: GPT-4 powered internal tools(superblocks.com)
18 points by bradmenezes 3y ago|2 comments
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by bradmenezes 4y ago
Series A
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by bradmenezes 4y ago
Brad here, one of the cofounders of Superblocks! Last week we launched on Hacker News and we’re incredibly thankful for all of the constructive feedback and excitement we received: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=323446
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Superblocks Announces $37m Funding(superblocks.com)
35 points by bradmenezes 4y ago|11 comments
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by bradmenezes 4y ago
interesting point. It would be interesting that at scale these platforms look more like salesforce in that there are viable businesses / consultancies built around it, time will tell!
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by bradmenezes 4y ago
Not from statements and surveys, but from paying customers :) We think our market area is wildly similar to the early days of gaming engines, echoing what pbardea commented earlier. We are providing the game-engine or the "tool-engine&
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by bradmenezes 4y ago
This matches exactly how we saw the market before we built Superblocks - which is why we never refer to Superblocks as low-code/no-code solution, but rather a programmable developer tool. When we speak to customers, the thing that reso
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by bradmenezes 4y ago
It's a great point, one interesting thing we've found is that backend developers are welcoming of using a drag and drop frontend builder, as long as it is extensible with code. For them using React, HTML, CSS is painful especially
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by bradmenezes 4y ago
Since we focused on developers we had to do both those things early as users didn't want to adopt without it. In terms of version control, we have a native version control that allows you to mark a deploy comment rollback to any prior
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by bradmenezes 4y ago
Note that Our agent (which is what executes code) is on GitHub here and source available: https://github.com/superblocksteam/agent Our approach is somewhat akin to say Datadog where they have an agent that you run, bu
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by bradmenezes 4y ago
We're a broader approach to building different types of internal tools (UI, workflows, Cron). We get compared to stuff like Retool, Zapier, BI tools and other low-code tools quite often, but the main differences are in the breadth of t
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by bradmenezes 4y ago
Good catch, we're fixing this right now!
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by bradmenezes 4y ago
Because Superblocks is quite broad in nature we end up being compared to a wide variety of tools but we at the same time integrate with them. For example you mentioned Retool which has a UI builder, but also Zapier and more recently BI tool
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by bradmenezes 4y ago
There are some very good features of Django Admin we can learn from like their onboarding - the major reason some users have replaced Django Admin with Superblocks is that Superblocks works with your db but also internal/external APIS
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by bradmenezes 4y ago
Are you looking for specifically to write code in say your own IDE like VSCode and we build a VScode extension?
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by bradmenezes 4y ago
We aren't yet HIPAA compliant (yet), we recently got SOC2 compliance working with a compliance vendor to do more certifications. One thing is that with our on-prem agent your customer data never leaves your VPC.
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by bradmenezes 4y ago
This is a really good idea and something that is on our roadmap to add templates to accelerate tooling development. We're learning about the most common use cases and going to build templates to shortcut getting started. The other thin
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by bradmenezes 4y ago
We've seen a mix of small startups building their first admin tool, for example to replace a Django Admin. We've also seen larger enterprises with 1000+ operations people building financial services tooling to support credit card
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by bradmenezes 4y ago
We've seen the most pull from more operations-heavy businesses like Fintech (building KYC, AML, Fraud, Credit Card Admin tools), Insurance (claims management and support admins), E-commerce (Order Management, Supply chain). Which indus
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Show HN: Superblocks – IDE for Internal Apps, APIs and Cron Jobs(superblocks.com)
193 points by bradmenezes 4y ago|94 comments
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by bradmenezes 11y ago
We built this tool while prepping for the YC interview, hope it helps other startups too! Best of luck everyone!
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Show HN: ProductPad – Product Hunt for iPad(productpad.co)
1 points by bradmenezes 12y ago|0 comments
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Ikea Standing Desk(theverge.com)
20 points by bradmenezes 12y ago|16 comments