Ply - Beta - Build internal features into the apps you use, with no-code

Hey Product Hunt! Super excited to announce Ply’s open beta 💃 Ply lets you build internal features into the apps you already use, without code. Instead of building more internal tools, you can now build contextual solutions into your team's apps. The benefits are faster time to value, wider (and faster) adoption, no onboarding, and of course - no context switching. Also, users just love it. While some problems require their own tool, in most cases having a contextual solution is 10x more effective. Think about it this way: when a software company wants to solve a problem for its users - it doesn’t create an entire new product, it creates a feature where the problem is. Ply is bringing this ability to internal products too. While individuals are welcome to build with Ply, it's primarily made for teams, where a few people build features for many. Most of our builders are ops, developers, internal PMs or heads of X. So far we've seen a lot of support and sales teams, some company-wide features and of course procurement, HR, finance and legal. Use-cases vary widely - we'd love to hear what you want to build, that's how we learn. Reach out to us if you need help building :)

There are currently 4 types of features you can build with Ply

🧩 Add-ons - buttons inside your apps that open custom interfaces overlayed where you are. They are contextual, meaning they can use data from the item you’re currently on (like an email, a deal, or a ticket). 🧩 Tools - features that work anywhere with Ply’s command bar, they can use URLs and selected text. 🧩 Actionable Notifications - event-based notifications with custom post-click functionality. 🧩 Portals - customer-facing embeddable features directly on your apps’ data.

Built for teams, small and large

✔️ Magic sharing - builders can remotely add features to team apps, end-users have nothing to learn. ✔️ Collaboration - get granular with spaces that let your team build and manage features together ✔️ Synced groups - sync permission structure from other apps. For example, you can share Ply features in Zendesk based on Zendesk teams, and never have to manage permissions in Ply. ✔️ Step level connection mode - define some actions to run with a one-for-all connection, and some with a per-user connection. For example, in one step you can have a single Airtable connection to get data from a database for all users, and in anther step let every user connect their own Gmail to send an email. 🛡️ Security first - aligned with the strictest standards. Also, very compliant: SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, CSA, GDPR. If you need enterprise controls like SSO, PII filtering or on-prem data hosting - reach out to us. We'd love (love!) to know what you think - please share feedback, ideas, use-cases and questions :) And thank you @benln for hunting us!

Hey, Maayan here from Ply 👋 Take at look at some of the features you can add to Product Hunt using Ply. I’d love to hear what other feature ideas the PH community has 💡 https://www.loom.com/share/b39c8...

Congrats Yaniv and team!

Wishing you all the best on your launch day, Yaniv! I can't wait to try it out with Airtable. Are there any other apps that it works particularly well with?

We've been using PLy for multiple groups and interfaces within the Company (and some customer-facing stuff as well), and it's highly effective, quick to set up, and reliable. I have been getting great feedback from users who were surprised to find productivity, and efficiency improvements take place over minutes using Ply. We did not need to involve RnD/DevOps or any other technical resource while setting it up.

Love the concept! sounds like a lot of awesome things can be built. Is it only for Chrome, or do you plan to work with other browsers?

I've been using Ply for a while now, and I'm super impressed by how intuitive and powerful your builder is. Kudos on your launch. One thing I wanted to ask, though, are there any plans to let users build their own context for apps you don't support?

Looks awesome! Do you guys support internal databases?

Love this idea of being able to create useful workflow. Looking forward to seeing what people build with it ♥️🔥

@ytross, congratulations to you and the entire Ply team on this launch! As the VP of Partnerships at SmartSuite, I've had the absolute pleasure of working with you over the last 6 months, and I speak on behalf of the entire SmartSuite team and partner/user community when I say Ply is the BEST product with the BEST team! When I found Ply, I was very excited about the innovation and the potential! You had the integration up and running within a week and have been so receptive to our feedback and change requests! I use Ply in my internal workflow at SmartSuite daily, and it saves me so many hours of manual work! I use it to communicate with Partners and SmartSuite users right from within our SmartSuite CRM and for data collection from LinkedIn and YouTube into appropriate SmartSuite applications. Besides the product being a game changer, I enjoy and look forward to my working session with Maayan, Gal, and other Ply team members! I've spent hours brainstorming and building ply workflows and features and enjoy every moment! I look forward to continuing working with the Ply and the fantastic team!