Built for building practical things quickly
What do you like best about the product?
- Library of integrations makes it simple to "plug and play" with many APIs and easy to migrate server endpoints
- Draggable components in applications make building web apps quick and easy for non-FE developers
- The scheduled jobs feature provides a nice interface for non-technical people to build cron jobs
- The ability to string together SQL queries, python scripts, and REST requests into a linear series of steps where you can pass data around makes building dashboards and workflows feel very intuitive
- The engineering support team is responsive, helpful, and cares: at one point in our onboarding process, we hit a roadblock and several people on their engineering team hopped on a video call with me to provide assistance. Much appreciated!
- Draggable components in applications make building web apps quick and easy for non-FE developers
- The scheduled jobs feature provides a nice interface for non-technical people to build cron jobs
- The ability to string together SQL queries, python scripts, and REST requests into a linear series of steps where you can pass data around makes building dashboards and workflows feel very intuitive
- The engineering support team is responsive, helpful, and cares: at one point in our onboarding process, we hit a roadblock and several people on their engineering team hopped on a video call with me to provide assistance. Much appreciated!
What do you dislike about the product?
The only thing that I disliked was that the on-prem deployment process took a while, which was the result of having a tech stack not entirely in AWS. I think that having more out-of-the-box guides for different tech stacks would be very helpful. That said, the Superblocks team was supportive throughout the process.
Some things that I don't dislike but could be improved:
- I've found myself writing many scheduled jobs with bounds checking for time (e.g. don't run a job before 9AM or after 5PM) in python, which I think would be more nicely placed in the scheduling interface than the code implementation
- More out-of-the-box graph support: I imagine that data visualization is not the end-goal, but more native graph support would be fantastic
- Would be great to have the FE hosted on customer-provided domains
Some things that I don't dislike but could be improved:
- I've found myself writing many scheduled jobs with bounds checking for time (e.g. don't run a job before 9AM or after 5PM) in python, which I think would be more nicely placed in the scheduling interface than the code implementation
- More out-of-the-box graph support: I imagine that data visualization is not the end-goal, but more native graph support would be fantastic
- Would be great to have the FE hosted on customer-provided domains
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Superblocks solves the problem of setting up quick dashboards and regularly-occurring jobs. It reduces the need to deploy full web-apps, provide API support, etc.
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