johnyeocx

Hey all, integrations with third-party SaaS vendors are super common these days, especially with all the AI tools complementing and enriching SaaS platforms, but as the title states, I'm curious to hear if anyone integrates directly with their customers' data store like Supabase, Snowflake, etc.

In my last startup, we were building a chargeback management tool for fintechs, and essentially whenever a chargeback came in, we'd only get the transaction ID, so we'd have to query the fintech's database to search for that transaction ID and pull additional data points like name of seller, email of seller, etc.

Now, when we did this, it was more of a scrappy workaround to the fintech not being able to dedicate engineering resources to send data to an API endpoint of ours. However, after a while, I thought to myself, there's nothing wrong with querying the fintech's DB as long as we're treating infosec seriously, and so now I'm curious to hear how common this practice is.

Maybe it's just me, but it feels like integrating with internal DBs could allow a startup to onboard and go live with customers much more quickly. For some reason though, I haven't heard much of this around, so to be completely honest, I'm thinking of starting a tool to make this process easier / standardised.

Before that though, I'm trying to wrap my head around the use cases for this so it'd be amazing to hear about your story of integrating directly with a customer's DB -- what was it for and how was the experience!

Hey everyone! Before I get roasted, yes, I know, Zapier for developers sounds super counter intuitive, but the point I'm trying to make is that developers know code well, and if you need to build some automated workflow / backend service, you know how to code it. The only problem is that starting an entire project from scratch is a little tedious, so you turn to Zapier, and it's fast, but expensive. That's where https://visual-backend.com comes in.

I made this tool to allow devs to build backend microservices really quickly, by auto generating all the boilerplate & repetitive code like route config, setting up a client for external services, and even GPT generating code for well known APIs like Firebase, Stripe etc, allowing you to quickly write specific functions relevant to your service

I know what you might be thinking: a UI for backend dev, that sounds stupid af?? And I definitely agree, but by now I've used it to quickly churn out several small scale backends with such ease and speed that I really believe in its value, and so I hope you guys might be able to give it a chance, go create that todo app that we all know and love, and if you hate Visual Backend then, by all means haha

But all jokes aside, I'd really appreciate any feedback, especially on specific use cases / niches that you think might truly benefit from this (been racking my brain trying to figure this one out for weeks to no avail) Cheers :)