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.
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.
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.
Best all round low code platform on the market
What do you like best about the product?
Backendless is a phenomenal platform. The capability to grow and scale from low code to pure code is a reason why we chose Backendless as a #lowcodedevelopment platform of choice.
Their support is second to none. I've used a lot of no/low-code platforms and as a rule, Backendless come up trumps.
Their support is second to none. I've used a lot of no/low-code platforms and as a rule, Backendless come up trumps.
What do you dislike about the product?
Pricing model is my least favourite aspect as it's recently changed and the platform may become more expensive, though we're looking at ways to mitigate that issue.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Speed of delivery whilst being a mostly robust, mature and stable platform.
Phenomenal Technology and Support
What do you like best about the product?
Backendless makes developing useful and usable web applications enormously easier than with traditional web dev tools. The support is second-to-none. The UI is so well-designed. I easily geared up to build simple apps in a matter of an hour and more complex apps in days instead of months.
What do you dislike about the product?
The documentation needs substantial enhancement. Too many of the answers to my questions require digging through forum topics, which often are not clear or complete.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Backendless makes creating and querying databases so easy to do basic data aggregation, summarization, and presentation. The UI Builder makes creating simple data display and query UIs very easy and modern. I get useful tools very quickly that my company can use immediately and enhance iteratively.
Game changer to build your own web app
What do you like best about the product?
The platform is a complete solution for building any kind of web or mobile application — front end + back end, with unbelievable amounts of "out of the box" components and functionalities. Very intuitive to learn, and for any question or support requests the Backendless team is quick to respond and help. Great community and company culture, too.
What do you dislike about the product?
Documentation could use some work — because there are so many functions/features, it seems like the Backendless team has some catching up to do with adding more detail, examples, etc to their documentation. Having said that, the courses and tutorial videos on YouTube are amazingly well done and super useful.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are rebuilding a live web application with tens of thousands of users entirely on Backendless. The app was built the "traditional way" ( Elixir back end, Vue.js front end, Kubernetes, AWS EC2 instances, etc) and we were completely dependent on highly paid "engineers" to maintain and make any changes to the app... Backendless is freeing us from this dependency, we are taking charge of our tech... as non-technical founders!
I have no coding abilities so I have to rely on a no code product.
What do you like best about the product?
They have tons of training videos.
The best part is the way you can build your logic with the drag and drop.
The best part is the way you can build your logic with the drag and drop.
What do you dislike about the product?
At times it appears you lose connectivity with the server so can lose some of your work.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Not seeing any.
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