Backendless Mobile Development Platform
Backendless | 2.0.3Linux/Unix, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1 - 64-bit Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
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A Developer's Trusted Backend Partner
What do you like best about the product?
I have used various backend solutions, but Backendless has never failed to impress me. I first started using Backendless in 2015 as a quick prototyping tool and it has become my go-to platform for app development. I can confidently say it is the easiest platform available today to get started with backend development, and it even goes far beyond that to full fledged production scale applications.
What do you dislike about the product?
Just like any other cloud provider, Backendless suffers from occasional outages once or twice a year, but the team is always vigilant and never fails to get things back up and running in no time!
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Back in 2015, after the Parse platform got acquired by Facebook, it was scheduled for shutdown soon after. Our team started looking for an alternative solution which would keep DevOps efforts at a minimum and instead keep the focus on product and feature development. We found Backendless which back then marketed themselves as the best Parse alternative, and true enough, we were able to switch to Backendless in no time and go back to our day to day work.
Building secure API endpoints is a breeze, and user authentication with various providers is a snap. Plus, you get granular control over user roles, ensuring top-notch security. But the real magic lies in its automatic, massive scaling. No developer heroics needed, your backend seamlessly adjusts to skyrocketing users and data, letting you focus on crafting the perfect app experience.
Building secure API endpoints is a breeze, and user authentication with various providers is a snap. Plus, you get granular control over user roles, ensuring top-notch security. But the real magic lies in its automatic, massive scaling. No developer heroics needed, your backend seamlessly adjusts to skyrocketing users and data, letting you focus on crafting the perfect app experience.
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Backendless is built for beginners
What do you like best about the product?
I took about fifteen credits of computing and IT classes in undergrad, so I have some sense of how much training is necessary to do meaningful coding and how much information goes into creating an app. Backendless's combination of no-code capabilities and training modules empower beginners to develop a capability in weeks or months that I had thought would take years. The training modules and videos are world-class and given by the CEO himself. I'm still new to learning all I need to know to build apps but am very impressed by what I have seen thus far.
What do you dislike about the product?
If I could change anything it would be that Loc data could be added to the Backendless database with API calls.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Prior to joining Backendless, I had very limited IT experience, about 15 IT credits in my undergrad coursework. I have an app idea and wanted to see if I could build it myself and have been happily surprised that I may be able to create an MVP without help or with limited consulting help.
Best Customisable Solution
What do you like best about the product?
I have been looking for a long time, for a no-code solution with a self-hosted option. I have trialled many options with varying degrees of success and satisfaction, and this is by far the most comprehensive and customisable solution I have found. The support is excellent, responses are within hours, and the team work with you until your issue/question is resolved. The pricing structure is fair, and not the standard "per user" found in similar products. This makes it a much more affordable robust solution for small businesses or teams to implement and use. The learning/training tools are very helpful and cover all aspects of the product.
What do you dislike about the product?
The extensive customisability makes it a fair bit harder to learn, but the training tools and videos help immensely.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Use of the product will allow us to move away from a heavily spreadsheet focused environment to a database solution that will provide much more information to managers, as well as simplify and speed up the business processes it replaces.
The only backend solution you need
What do you like best about the product?
The ease of use and functionality of backendless is flawless. As a small app development company, we found it simple to integrate our systems and have them hosted on backendless. We are a small company with big ambitions and Backendless allows for this. We especially appreciate the Free plans, which allows use of the platform for development and testing purposes, not imposing any timescales forcing us to upgrade to a paid plan if the time isn't right. We would highly recommend this to anyone looking to embark on the app development journey, it's the perfect starting point.
What do you dislike about the product?
The current pricing structure unfortunately does not suit our current needs. Whilst the Free plan is brilliant for development and testing, we need more capacity in order to launch. The variation in pricing for the Scale plan currently doesn't fit with the type of clients we deal with as they like to know exactly how much they are paying from month to month, and a set number of API calls over a period for a set price would help hugely.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Whilst user authentication on app launch is available from other platforms, it is easier and simpler through backendless. Additionally, there is a fully customisable and visual solution when it comes to storing user data, which is extremely helpful when there are many categories and types of data to store. The RESTful API can be used to integrate with our web systems as well as private API keys which are offered by platform, this makes the integration seamless.
Easiest way to develop a concrete application.
What do you like best about the product?
The codeless feature mattress development so much simpler and makes with so much quicker because there's less worry about syntax.
I don't know how the devs do it but support is truly incredible with responding to developer issues or inquiries in general in their support page.
I don't know how the devs do it but support is truly incredible with responding to developer issues or inquiries in general in their support page.
What do you dislike about the product?
Can be expensive when trying to scale up to higher tier plans for more traffic (number of API calls).
Some incredibly rarely used SQL doesn't work (more intricate and complex stuff thankfully but still).
Some incredibly rarely used SQL doesn't work (more intricate and complex stuff thankfully but still).
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Getting the application from nothing to operational is so much simpler than any other platform I've ever used and it's pretty dependable.
Backendless
What do you like best about the product?
ease of use
customer support
ease of integration
customer support
ease of integration
What do you dislike about the product?
the new user may find it intimidating until they start feeling comfortable with the location of resources.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The nocode/lowcode environment makes it less stressful for the beginner and allows the more advanced user to add customizations where needed. The timeframe for the development effort has been reduced greatly.
Change on pricing overnight, ghosting on customer support service
What do you like best about the product?
It is useful when you don't have time to code a full backed since a lot of features are given straight away.
What do you dislike about the product?
They change prices from time to time depending on their business model, so suddenly the bill can be like 4x what you were paying for the same services. So it's not reliable as a long term backend.
Customer support usually respond fast but when you provide all the requested information to fix an issue they just ghost and stops replying emails.
Customer support usually respond fast but when you provide all the requested information to fix an issue they just ghost and stops replying emails.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Backend features easy to plug in.
Unbelievable support from the team
What do you like best about the product?
Two things:
1) It's no-code / low-code, but the concepts are exactly the same as normal programming. It means it's less magical and allow you to progressively scale up the complexity of the app - at least that's my expectation. I have yet to go through the full loop.
2) Incredible support - this is what drove me to write a review. I experienced an issue while completing their excellent onboarding course (called Missions) - I reached out to support - this is crazy easy, I click the button within the onboarding course itself and all my details including which part of the course are automatically filled in. Then even more shocking for me is that 3 days later (yes, it included the weekends), not only did they reply to me with a solution... they actually deployed a new feature to ensure others won't run into the same issue.
1) It's no-code / low-code, but the concepts are exactly the same as normal programming. It means it's less magical and allow you to progressively scale up the complexity of the app - at least that's my expectation. I have yet to go through the full loop.
2) Incredible support - this is what drove me to write a review. I experienced an issue while completing their excellent onboarding course (called Missions) - I reached out to support - this is crazy easy, I click the button within the onboarding course itself and all my details including which part of the course are automatically filled in. Then even more shocking for me is that 3 days later (yes, it included the weekends), not only did they reply to me with a solution... they actually deployed a new feature to ensure others won't run into the same issue.
What do you dislike about the product?
Coming from a design background, Backendless is not the easiest to pick up. Doing basic things like creating a dropdown etc takes more work than just selecting a pre-made component. On one hand this means you can create anything and not tied to any pre-made components. On the other it means taking more time than other no-code platforms to get up and running.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It allows me, person without coding backgroun, to create a full fledge app that is highly customised to my requirements and design.
We find the Database functionalities very easy to use
What do you like best about the product?
Backendless is a structured database platform that is hosted in a Cloud enviroment and the Billing takes place on a SaaS basis. - The pricing is reasonable and well worth the money spent.
What do you dislike about the product?
We are developers of Mobile Phone Applications and our Developemt Platform / Tool we use is Flutter Flow and the Intergration to BackEndLess could be a lot better. It is lacking a lot of Features we require to achieve better integration to our Flutter Flow Apps
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
BackEndLess offer a One Stop Shop to store and retrieve data from their Cloud Based Mobile App Solutions
Great Tool but new pricing system is very difficult to work with
What do you like best about the product?
The no code logic is great and very powerful.
What do you dislike about the product?
The new pricing system is not very predictable and short usage spikes turn out yo be very rxpensive very fast.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
No code backend for mobile applications. Easy manageable and easy logic no code moduls.
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