Treeline

Build a backend without writing code

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Build a backend without writing code

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Treeline makes it easy to build custom, high-performance apps for Node.js. It is designed for building practical, enterprise-grade backends in a matter of hours - not months.

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super smart founders, who started with Sails.js ("rails" for node) and have built a solid product in Treeline, which allows a frontend engineer to build backend code ... without coding. I really wonder when the day comes when lines of code are no longer written, everything is built via drag/drop type interfaces?

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11yr ago

Bric

@micah Completely agree. Been working with Sails.js and this team and they are doing some great stuff.

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11yr ago

Astronomer

@micah I love playing with new graphical programming tools too, but I don't think we'll ever anticipate every need so well that professional developers won't need an IDE and command line to build production-grade commercial apps. Side projects though...

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11yr ago

YC Startup Class

Treeline is incredible. They truly want to free frontends from the typical "Sorry, you have to wait for the API/validation/database structural update/library/socket to be ready". Because, to be honest, most of the serious app dev is now on the frontend, mobile and web. I saw an early demo and it's impressive, give it a try!

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11yr ago

Layers

@freddier wait, what? "Most of the serious app dev is on the frontend" is a bit of a stretch of the imagination don't you think?

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11yr ago

Treeline

Maker

@freddier @mikekhristo good point- depends on the app of course. But i built apps as a consultant for about the last half decade and honestly in most of the projects I saw, at least 60% of the (wo)man-hours were spend on the client(s)

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11yr ago

Voxel

@freddier if by "serious app dev" you mean UI's for CRUD apps, sure.

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11yr ago

YC Startup Class

@mikekhristo I can see how my comment went too far, in perspective. For *most* app dev, Frontend is where the cool stuff happens. Obviously, if you're doing Machine Learning or a similar complex thing, you're doing impressive, fun backend. But for *most* ideas, Backend is quite predictive. Treeline accelerates that a lot. Maybe.

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11yr ago

Enterprise Should Suck Less - #23 - Drew DeWalt

@freddier if you're conviction is that strong, would you use Treeline for your own startup (Platzi)?

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11yr ago

Delphi

This is a really cool approach to backends without having to code. Though technically, I'd consider their interface a visual coding language. So it's still coding. What they are really doing is abstracting away all the unnecessary shit and leaving the end user with only the controls they need to make the backend that suits them best. Love that! I'm just really into the whole "what even is code?" thought experiment. So I felt the urge to clarify. Swift is a programing language that lets you not have to deal with memory management. In much the same way, visual languages like this (and Max, for example) attract even further, but the end product is still coding? Or not. idk

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11yr ago

Treeline

Maker

@netspencer great point

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11yr ago

ZINQ AI

@mikermcneil Can you give me Beta access? I am starting an in-house project, would love to do that using treeline. I have already expressed my interest in @ treeline.io website.

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11yr ago

Treeline

Maker

@patelnachiket will get you taken care of this morning!

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11yr ago

Treeline

Maker

@mikermcneil @patelnachiket check your email :) and thanks for taking a look.

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11yr ago

The Design of Influence: How to Craft Products that Move People

Anything that allows me to focus on the front-end with the capability of using a backend is always exciting. How does this compare to Strongloop Arc? Or Stamplay?

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11yr ago

@alirtariq LoopBackJS has a new visual interface that I'm building with our new company, LunchBadger and we're taking it one step further with visual orchestration of your runtime.

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10yr ago

5 Calls

Looks awesome. I do a lot of work on Parse.com now but there are plenty of flaws that Treeline could capitalize on.

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11yr ago

Treeline

Maker

@nickoneill Interesting! Something we've seen a few times already is developers using Parse or Firebase as their database layer and communicating with it from Treeline/Sails (e.g. https://www.npmjs.com/package/sa...)

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11yr ago

ZINQ AI

@nickoneill True. & Biggest flaw of Parse Code (server) is you cannot run same environment locally & you are sandboxed.

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11yr ago

Process Street

Looks really great for us front-end folk. Back ends are just robots anyway right? I can't wait to get my hands on an invite - the two big boys are run by the big evil guys.

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11yr ago

Treeline

Maker

@vinspee we hope you enjoy it! Check your email.

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