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Kevin William David

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

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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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Alex!
Great idea. Biggest risk--what happens if my business depends on this and then for whatever reason your startup closes shop or is unable to support this anymore? Is there an off-boarding story as well as an onboarding story?
Albert Santalo
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@imaznation Hey Alex, great question. 8base is well capitalized by myself and was founded by experienced entrepreneurs. Our platform revenue is growing but we run the company profitably through our services offering where we help companies design and build their products on 8base. If we ever were to exit the business (God forbid), we can install 8base on a customer's AWS instance so there would be no interruption. Off-boarding is somewhat facilitated by the fact we use standards everywhere (My-SQL, JavaScript, TypeScript and GraphQL).
bill @livo
Yes, I would recommend 8base. Building a new technology no longer feels like you've been sucked into a black hole. Working with the team at 8base has been extremely transparent and productive, giving us time to focus on other important tasks. The build moves at a very quick pace, allowing me to enter the market nearly 6 months sooner than what is usually expected. The 8base team NEVER misses a deadline, and exceeds my own high expectations with regard to the look and feel of the product. The 8base team took the time to learn my product and service well enough to be able to add changes and recommendations that will be significant. We have a few other products on deck and we plan to use 8base to do the build. why? Because we love the competitive edge we get by using 8base. Bill, CEO Livo.
Albert Santalo
Maker
@bill_livo Thank you, Bill.
Shelby Stephens
Does 8base offer any additional services or have partners that can help non-technical teams?
Albert Santalo
Maker
@shelby_stephens Hey Shelby, as you noticed, 8base is made for developers to use. That said, we have an amazing team that can take the lead on product design and development. We do this quite a bit in partnership with non-technical founders (with and without a CTO) looking to get their products to market fast while being production-grade without having to build their own team.
SPLITZ MBM
Amazing new product-Any Devs here want to try this on my ecommerce website that I am looking to complete? It is backend dev and coding that needs to be worked on and this platform looks perfect...Interested shoot me an email-Corey@winwintradelines.com Happy Developing
Albert Santalo
Maker
@winwintradelines @splitz_mbm Corey, let me know if you want to connect about this. Thanks!
Florian Bienefelt
Building all of your software on a proprietary, closed-source, magical backend ran by a startup? Sounds cool for small projects, but the risk of failure, pivot, or unaddressed issues is way too big for a serious engineering team! Hope you're thinking of open-sourcing core parts of this product to build trust, and allow people to improve/fork it for their needs :)
Sebastian Scholl
Maker
@florian_bienefelt It's great to hear that 8base looks like some proprietary magic to you, but I guarantee that it 100% isn't! Instead, it's a development platform built 100% using development standards on top of AWS that we've poured 1000's of hours into building. For serious development teams that love spending time reinventing the wheel, 8base is probably a bad choice. However, for serious engineering teams that value their time and money, like the teams at IBM using 8base and dozens of others, we hit home runs. Not really interested in making our platform open source, but thanks for the suggestion!
JASON KILLINGS
Great support and ease to build upon. Working with the team now and very impressed.
Albert Santalo
Maker
@killings_j Thank you Jason!
Albert Santalo
8base is the best way to develop if you are a front-end dev
Jacob Colling
Love the product. And the team is top notch! I've been using 8base daily for 6+ months or so and it's truly an incredible product. All of the core features like the GraphQL API and Data Builder are powerful. You can move and build incredibly fast using 8base. After pretty thoroughly exploring the market for alternatives I was not able to find anything close to 8base, in terms of both ease-of-use and the power of the features. It does everything I need and more and the community is growing. I'd strongly recommend you use it for your next project. And I'm happy to answer any questions if you are getting started and want an inside look.
Albert Santalo
Maker
@jacob_colling In 6 months there are lots of ways for any company/product to disappoint so I am thrilled your experience has been great. Thanks for sharing your insights with the community.
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