Kevin William David

8base - Bring powerful apps to market fast - 8base GraphQL Backend

8base brings together the systems your application needs and makes them available through a single GraphQL API endpoint. This means your backend is production-ready instantly, and able to scale automatically with your business. Awesome for building startups!

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Robert Strazzarino
I received amazing support from this company as I was tinkering with a side project, multiple email conversations back and forth even though I was asking some basic GraphQL questions and some specific code written for me. Couldn't believe the level of support, highly recommend checking this out!
Albert Santalo
@robert_strazzarino Thanks, Robert. We enjoy collaborating with you.
Simon Gibson
So this is a little bit like Hasura for RDS? That sounds pretty coo!. Does the GraphQL go through AppSync?
Sebastian Scholl
hey @simon_gibson1 ! There are for sure some similarities between 8base and Hasura. That said, we take the approach of being a fully managed service as opposed to linking up a Heroku account or manage a docker container, ect. Plus, our roadmap for application services (notifications, workflow, messaging, etc.) is really to make sure that 8base becomes a complete foundation for application development, as opposed to one specialized piece of the puzzle. Also, we're not on AppSync! We built our own GraphQL Engine from scratch that's super powerful. If you haven't already, check out the docs for our grouping and aggregation capabilities (https://docs.8base.com/docs/8bas...). I've not seen anything like it from others offering GraphQL APIs. It's crazy powerful.
Kate Houlihan
Great founders and a great product! So proud of you guys
Albert Santalo
@k8fuego Thanks so much, Kate!
Sofia Vyshnevska
Amazing Product!⭐️
Albert Santalo
@sofia_vyshnevska Thanks, Sofia!
Aurelio Rodriguez
This product rocks. Congrats
Carlos Arevalo
@realaurelio Thank you, Aurelio!
Albert Santalo
@realaurelio Thank you!
Mbiyimoh Ghogomu
8base is LEGIT. Great, accessible software that allows non-technical folks like myself to engage meaningfully with back-end structure and strategy (for what it's worth, our lead developer is also a huge fan). The 8base team itself is also super solid. Smart guys who are genuinely invested in helping startups create quality experiences that are built to scale. They are also extremely fair with pricing! Have already recommended them to a couple other friends who are looking to build products.
Albert Santalo
@mbiyimoh_ghogomu Thanks, Mbiyimoh. Working with you and your team is fantastic!
Miriam Dorsett
Great video and super proud that this Product is coming out of South Florida. Congrats @albertsantalo and team.
Albert Santalo
@mdorsett Thanks so much!
Tom Frazier
Love to chat further about a project. Looks great guys - I’m sure you are proud of it!
Albert Santalo
@tomfrazier Absolutely Tom. Please feel free to send me an email at albert@8base.com or Sebastian at sebastian.scholl@8base.com. Looking forward to it!
Albert Santalo
@tomfrazier Tom, on another note, after looking at your background, we have a marketing tech project in the pipeline (Multi-tenant SaaS product to be built on 8base) that I'd like to chat with you about.
Matt
For a founder, how does the required level of expertise compare to something like Firebase? In that same vein, how limited are the capabilities for a non-technical founder?
Sebastian Scholl
@likewow thanks for the question! With done limited training, a non-technical would be able to use 8base to pretty much set up their entire backend (minus custom functions, which would require JavaScript knowledge). That said, we think of 8base as a platform to be used by developers to the benefit of non-technical and technical founders alike. Would love to hear more about what you're working on!
Albert Santalo
@likewow Matt, thanks for your questions? For non-tech founders we also help them with professional services for design and development of their applications on 8base. Firebase is widely used but it's NO-SQL underpinning isn't well suited to the needs of data-driven startups. Firebase is better suited for building mobile apps that mostly require CRUD operations. Firebase also does not have GraphQL, which is a game-changer for developers and a massive strategic advantage for companies.
Chanlito
I love 8base ideas & features, but for a platform that is built for developers, the pricing & its limitations like (1 free tier workspace, $25/month for 100k DB rows, no clear pay as you go plan, must contact sales, etc.) is not good at all for a developer.
Albert Santalo
@chanlitohem Check out the latest pricing at https://www.8base.com/producthunt.
Chanlito
@albertsantalo woot! 🥳 nice will try 8base again.