Superblocks Announces $37m Funding (opens in new tab)

(superblocks.com)

35 pointsbradmenezes3y ago11 comments

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> Superblocks is a programmable set of building blocks for developers to create mission-critical custom internal apps, workflows and scheduled jobs, at a fraction of the time and cost.

ushakov3y ago

Superblocks is based on AppSmith (Apache 2.0)

https://github.com/appsmithorg/appsmith

open-source developers beware

ranma3y ago

"Based on" is a strong term when most of our code is not from Appsmith. Since forking some frontend components from Appsmith (which is an Apache 2.0 project) over a year ago. Our entire code execution, deployment, version control, observability and security model is built from scratch to give our customers the best product experience. At Superblocks we're focused on building great solutions for our customers, this means we're going to assemble relevant frameworks and libraries for the job if the license permits.

debarshri3y ago

Could you elaborate?

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bradmenezesOP3y ago

Brad here, one of the cofounders of Superblocks! Last week we launched on Hacker News and we’re incredibly thankful for all of the constructive feedback and excitement we received: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32344671

We heard you loud and clear, and are addressing the pain of not enough templates, vendor lock in risk, open source preferences, custom UI components, etc. We wrote about how we plan to address it here: https://www.superblocks.com/blog/learnings-from-hitting-1-on...

As a reminder, Superblocks is an internal tooling IDE to connect to any datasource (databases, APIs, data warehouses), drag and drop your common UI components (tables, charts, forms), spin up backend APIs and schedule cron jobs, all in one place.

Today with the fundraise we’re looking for even more critical feedback to determine where we should take the product next

simonmorg3y ago

Your pricing is a little misleading and hard to understand in my opinion. It took a few minutes, then i realised the viewer day passes seem to be what will drive the price.

If i were you, i'd add the view day passes to the main pricing tiers - it'll help people see the trust cost easier.

ecshafer3y ago

As part of this they also announced they have 18 people that are executives / manager types as part of the "team". The company in the picture is ~40 people roughly. So almost half of the company is management / executives?

wylie3y ago

Assuming this is a real question- the company doesn’t have 18 CEOs on the team. It does have about 18 investors listed. Does that clarify it?

debarshri3y ago

Is it a series A or a seed?

bradmenezesOP3y ago

Series A

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vorpalhex3y ago

> Superblocks is a programmable set of building blocks for developers to create mission-critical custom internal apps, workflows and scheduled jobs, at a fraction of the time and cost.

ushakov3y ago

Superblocks is based on AppSmith (Apache 2.0)

https://github.com/appsmithorg/appsmith

open-source developers beware

ranma3y ago

debarshri3y ago

Could you elaborate?

1 more reply

bradmenezesOP3y ago

Today with the fundraise we’re looking for even more critical feedback to determine where we should take the product next

simonmorg3y ago

Your pricing is a little misleading and hard to understand in my opinion. It took a few minutes, then i realised the viewer day passes seem to be what will drive the price.

If i were you, i'd add the view day passes to the main pricing tiers - it'll help people see the trust cost easier.

ecshafer3y ago

wylie3y ago

Assuming this is a real question- the company doesn’t have 18 CEOs on the team. It does have about 18 investors listed. Does that clarify it?

debarshri3y ago

Is it a series A or a seed?

bradmenezesOP3y ago

Series A

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