Back4app

Your Application's Backend, Simplified

4.9•54 reviews•

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Your Application's Backend, Simplified

4.9•54 reviews•

1.1K followers

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Hey PH community! I'm so happy to be here today representing our amazing and incredibly talented team to share with you our latest tool Back4app Agent. Back4app Agent is an AI-powered tool created to autonomously assist developers in building, deploying, and troubleshooting applications. Our goal when creating the Agent was to simplify the DevOps process, boost efficiency, and increase productivity. Think of the agent this way: It's your personal AI DevOps assistant that you can rely on 24/7. So does the agent do? ✅ Executes tasks: Input your requirements or issues and the Agent generates solutions, code snippets, and troubleshooting steps, and executes & and implements them in the cloud. ✅ Deploys applications: Ensure a transparent and traceable deployment process by creating a new web app from a GitHub repository, managing its settings, initiating new deployments, and accessing detailed logs. ✅ Creates and manages applications: Deploy cloud code, retrieve content, call REST/GraphQL, APIs, fetch schemas, create classes, insert data, and execute cloud code functions. ✅ Manages code repos: With our seamless integration with GitHub, you can fully manage your repositories directly from the Back4app Agent. With the Agent, you can access your repos, push new code, fetch existing code, monitor changes, manage branches, and clone repos. Thanks so much for taking the time to check out our launch. We'd love to hear your feedback, so if you have any questions, feel free to ask in the comments! Happy Friday! 🎉 Gus

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3yr ago

Great product! This really revives the original mission of Parse which was to make app development easily accessible for the masses. Now with this tool a developer can kickstart their first app without writing a single line of code. This truly is revolutionary - amazing job!

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3yr ago

Maker

@mtrezza Thank you for your message Manuel!

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3yr ago

Maker

@mtrezza Hey thank you for your support. For sure, with the backend and the agent you can reach another level of productivity!

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3yr ago

Scade.pro

Hi, Gus! I'm wondering, how did you make such a wonderful product? Accept my congratulations!

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3yr ago

Bingtellar

@gusoliveira_ Impressive stuff. Congratulations Gus!!!

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3yr ago

Audos.com

Congrats with the launch! Sounds like a magic too for deployment 🚀 Do you have a plan to incorporate it to the primary product or remain it as a separate tool under back4app umbrella?

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3yr ago

Maker

@xeniagoron great question Ksenia! The Agent is incorporated into our product. All you have to do is log into your account and you can start using it from the dashboard 👍🏻

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3yr ago

Maker

@xeniagoron thank you for your feedback! The idea is to develop the product further and integrate with clouds like AWS. Do you think this feature would be useful to you?

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3yr ago

Maker

@xeniagoron Thank you for your question and for your support. The Agent also is an interface for the other back4app products so you can use Containers and Backend with Natural Language. And our goal is to integrate it with other Cloud providers to give more flexibility to our users.

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3yr ago

Audos.com

@gusoliveira_ I got it. Thanks for the reply!

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3yr ago

Audos.com

@alyssoncm I should say it's a great approach to extend the audience by empowering the core product! How do you validate your idea about the new feature? I'm interested in ways of collecting first feedback from early adopters. Or did you ask your product community and current users?

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3yr ago

Congrats! Looks really good for devops! Is there a way to abort or revert quickly and easily an wrong prompt? Will share it with my devops teammates.

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3yr ago

Maker

@julienergan Thank you for your question. The process we recommend is initially to clone your environment and test the prompts before moving to production.

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3yr ago

Maker

@julienergan Hi Julien. If you are using the developer environment as it is an isolated container you will not have this problem because all your code will be summited to GitHub as a PR.

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3yr ago

@george_batschinski1 ha I see, thanks for your answer 👌

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3yr ago

@alyssoncm thank you, that complements the answer from @george_batschinski1

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3yr ago

PHP Secure

Congrats with launching! Excellent and developer-friendly design. I feel the quality! How long did it take you to develop the product?

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3yr ago

Maker

@julia_kot Hi Julia, We have been running the company for around eight years. This product took us about three months of development but already uses our infrastructure as a foundation.

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3yr ago

Maker

@julia_kot Hi Julia, also complementing @george_batschinski1 answer we have learned a lot first from a ChatGPT Plugin we've launched on OpenAI store and then improved our approach to create the Agent.

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3yr ago

Great feature, quite disruptive in the no code backend field! And loving your short, to-the-point youtube tutorials. Keep it up guys.

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3yr ago

Maker

@fredkzk thank you so much Fred! With the release of the Agent, we're going to a full demo and walkthrough on YT 👍🏻

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3yr ago

Maker

@fredkzk happy to hear that. The Agent goal is to pursue this vision and keep helping developers to release more code faster. As soon as you have more feedback on the Agent would love to hear. Thank you

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3yr ago

@alyssoncm One question though: the agent is great at understanding instructions. But as a no coder with little clue about how backends, containers, github work, can it answer questions about how to actually proceed, what the steps should be, prior to giving it instructions?

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3yr ago

Maker

@fredkzk Thanks for your feedback, Fred. Do you think integrating this agent to AWS would be helpful in supporting other projects that are already up and running on major clouds?

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3yr ago

@george_batschinski1 Yes, AWS, Google Cloud, as well as integration with cloud computing servers like RunPod, RunDiffusion, etc...

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3yr ago

Skillpine

Congrats on the launch! Existing coding assistants struggle when the project gets larger in size. How do you deal with this issue? Is the AI capable of finding its own way or do you have ways of making handholding relatively easy for humans (referencing modules, files etc)? Regardless, looks great, wish you lots of success!

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3yr ago

Maker

@aliyesilyaprak That a great and difficult question. Here is what we are doing so far. We will store a summary of the non confidential project data and use this knowledge to prepare better questions to the AI models. That is, we will enrich the questions with previous knowledge so the results are better. Do you think this approach makes sense?

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3yr ago

Skillpine

💡 Bright idea

@george_batschinski1 Yes, especially if the performance is good. I'm sure you already tested your product and it works great. It could still be a good idea to make it easy and intuitive to enter complex commands with relatively smaller metadata for when the model fails to figure things out. (Ex: Create a new user class in /project/module/submodule/file.ext and add register endpoint to /..... I think we are often okay with entering a bit more information as long as it doesn't create too much friction, like referencing the file). Just a small suggestion :)

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3yr ago

Maker

@aliyesilyaprak Your suggestions make sense and will pass them to our team.

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3yr ago

Maker

@george_batschinski1 @aliyesilyaprak Great ideia Ali. Also, we are going to optimize the context memory and improve our models to create a deep understanding on each kind of project.

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3yr ago

Selzy

Congrats on the launch @gusoliveira_ ! Back4app AI Agent looks likу a really cool app, that will certainly make DevOps tasks and cloud operations more efficient.

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3yr ago

Maker

thank you @evgeny_kotelevskiy! We´ve been getting a lot of great feedback 👍🏻

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3yr ago

Maker

@gusoliveira_ @evgeny_kotelevskiy Thank you for the support !

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3yr ago

Selzy

@gusoliveira_ @alyssoncm you are welcome, guys!

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3yr ago

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Reviewers describe Back4app as an easy, dependable backend for mobile and web apps, especially strong for prototypes, student work, solo developers, and small teams that want to avoid infrastructure work. The most repeated praise is fast setup, a clean dashboard, Parse-based tools like auth, cloud code, live queries, and straightforward APIs, plus responsive, human support. Many also report solid uptime and smooth scaling. Criticism is light but real: a few users mention documentation gaps, minor CLI collaboration issues, and some uncertainty about more complex or microservice-heavy setups.

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