Flows by Stamplay - Lego for APIs

@giuliano84 Looks pretty cool! Booked a session for monday. But would have a hard time committing to such tool unless the pricing was more transparent.

@matgosselin what's not transparent about the pricing?

@giuliano84 Oh! I just saw the first page: https://stamplay.com/pricing which doesn't show pricing at all. So thought that it's either free or you have to contact 'someone' to get the pricing. Either I haven't been observant enough or that's a bit misleading ;-). But now I can see on https://stamplay.com/pricing/self .

@giuliano84 btw for the premium, it says "20+ million". Does that mean it's uncapped?

@matgosselin no worries :) But it's a good feedback about the UX of that page

thanks @nagra__ ! Unlike the IFTTT we allow people to build full-fledged service based apps, you can build API endpoint that trigger workflows, you can run scheduled processes, or you can build an end-to-end app just by hooking up a front-end to the API you build with Stamplay. Basically Sky is the limit!

@giuliano84 @nagra__ wow ,.. scarily awesome..

@giuliano84 @nagra__ Makes me remind those days of Yahoo Pipes. One of the projects I loved most, unfortunately taken down later.

@acpmasquerade @nagra__ yeah I think the concept has been there since a while now but I believe that this can happen only now with the fully matured API economy of today. Back in the days that tools where too focused on trying to make coding visual. This is about making programming visual using APIs which is a slight but fundamental difference.

@paulmboyce you're right! The day where everyone will be able to bend the internet at their will is getting closer and closer :)

@giuliano84 exactly - and that's the goal, right?! :)

@paulmboyce totally :)

@tomsoderlund Weld is a great front-end tool and the mix of the two product is explosive. We should look at some joint marketing activity and show people how to build an end to end web app using our service. How does it sound?

@giuliano84 I'd be interested in this as well :)

@brentsum @giuliano84 Same here, By the way Brent I got a lot of value from your courses. Experimenting with Weld and Stamplay as well, I am feeling like there is no limits.

@brentsum let's talk about it! Drop me an email to g@stamplay.com!

@giuliano84 would love to see that, I think it would be really helpful.

@ciricmarko Totally agreed! The number of SaaS applications has exploded and there is a rising wave of software innovation in the area of APIs that provide critical connective tissue and increasingly important functionality. There has been a proliferation of third-party API companies, which is fundamentally changing the dynamics of how software is created and brought to market. Developers have learned not to expend precious resources on reinventing the wheel but instead to rely on APIs from the larger platforms, such as Twilio, Stripe, Sendgrid, PubNub and so on.. Applications have no choice but to speak with other APIs as they are actually built using different APIs. Unfortunately composing services comes with challenges because APIs are different from each other and orchestrating them gets worst as you need to connect more of them. The number of ways to combine them increases exponentially and we’re just at the very beginning. This is why I believe that products like this can be huge enablers to help people put their ideas online :)

@v3ss0n I don't think backend developers should be worried at all, as we're not trying to replace them. It's really about avoiding reinventing the wheel over and over again and focus on coding what matters most :) What do you think?

@giuliano84 can we combine with Firebase too?

@v3ss0n yes we do integrate Firebase, it is available as a component. Stamplay is designed to be an open platform and anything that has an open REST API can be integrated or connected to it. We don't want to put any constraint our users as we believe that the true power is in enabling people to use their favorite tools and provide an easy way to orchestrate them.

@giuliano84 neat

@tauno sounds great! Also do keep in mind that any building block or third party API that you don't see available can be easily added (it's not a public feature yet but we can add a new API in less than day). Also if you need more custom logic you can create code blocks with NodeJS and plug it between steps. Let me know if you have any other question!

@giuliano84 @tauno When he speaks in the name, I can use Node red? Congratulations!👏

@almackin thanks Al! When we'll see Formisimo API live and have it available as a building block in Stamplay?

@00taffe Thanks man, I see you are a frontend developer, what is your favorite framework?

@kevin_granger thanks a lot! The Algolia integration is killer and it's great to be featured in your docs https://www.algolia.com/doc/tuto...