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Basedash Apps + Actions — A better way to make internal apps
Ship internal apps in minutes, not days.
Just connect your database and choose a layout for your data. Everything just works out of the box, from CRUD operations, to real-time multiplayer, to API calls with actions.
Just connect your database and choose a layout for your data. Everything just works out of the box, from CRUD operations, to real-time multiplayer, to API calls with actions.
Try it 👉 www.basedash.com
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@ksaitor Thanks! We're not planning to add a native MongoDB integration in the near future, but we're working on supporting arbitrary APIs as data sources. That would let you pull data from MongoDB databases into our layouts and trigger actions on your records.
Congrats on the launch, ?makers! Love how the narrative flows perfectly. Bravo @tomjohndesign 👏
This is interesting! One of the best parts of Basedash is how fast it is to spin up a bunch of support processes and tools that I could share with my team, but it came at the expense of being unable to handle complex operations. This new update gives you the near-instant speed of implementation of Basedash, but now it can handle every operation possible by allowing you to delegate some actions to an external API. That's a big update.
Hey Product Hunt 👋
After first launching on PH 3 years ago, we’re excited to launch the next iteration of Basedash.
Basedash is a better way to make internal apps. We give you a beautiful interface, CRUD functionality, and powerful real-time collaboration—all you need to do is connect your database and hook up your API. It takes 5 minutes (demo video).
Today, we're shipping 2 new major features: Apps and Actions.
Apps lets you deploy fully-functional internal apps to your different teams. In a couple minutes, you can create pages that pull data from your database with full CRUD functionality. You can also write SQL queries for more complex calculations, and use them to automatically generate charts. Other than that, you don't need to write any code—everything just works out-of-the-box.
Actions let you call APIs right from your apps. You can connect both internal and third-party APIs, which let you set up actions for things like refunding a user on Stripe, sending an email through SendGrid, or updating a lead on HubSpot. You can also connect to something like Zapier or Make for even more powerful workflows.
We're really excited to see what kinds of apps you build with these new features!
We'll be hanging out on Product Hunt all day so feel free to drop us your questions 😄
@maxmusing Congrats Max! Just a quick question. Would I be able to change live database entries with my business team without screwing up the whole prod system with you guys?
@gordi_braun yes! We specifically designed the tool with business users in mind. You have full control over what parts of your database are accessible to different users through Apps. We also abstract away most of the technical database details, so it's just like using a well-designed CRM.
I mentioned a solution for internal apps a couple of weeks back on my live stream The Weekly SaaS Hunt. I love the fact that we got options on the market and we're reaching a state where you don't waste time on internal scripting. 👏👏
My suggestion, if you don't already have this: Blueprints/Templates > Have one-click deploy apps where entry level folk can just change a few config fields for data location and tables to pull from etc, but everything else is packaged. That as well as a large tutorial set, youtube series on how to create X app.
@florin_biro Thanks for the suggestion! We have talked a lot internally about prebuilt apps or templates so that teams can get started a lot more quickly. Hopefully it's something we're able to build in the future.
Basedash is a great product for anyone looking to quickly ship internal apps. The interface is beautiful and easy to use, and the CRUD functionality is top-notch. The real-time collaboration is also a great feature, and the fact that it takes just 5 minutes to set up is a huge plus. Congrats ?makers !
@tedspare thanks Ted! Love to hear success stories like this, now let's scale that project to 9M users 💪
Basedash was already super useful but this new release makes it so much more powerful. Can't wait to play around with Actions, seems very cleanly executed as well.
@sarimmalik Excited for you to kick the tires! There's so much more that's now possible with Actions, can't wait to see how people use them.
@sarimmalik thanks man! Would love to show you around, lots you can do with actions :)
@cem_ozcelik Thank you Cem. We've been working hard on this for some time and it's nice to share it today.
Hey there, I'm Jeremy, one of the developers at Basedash. My focus for the past few months has been on Actions. Let me know if you have any questions.
By the way, if you'd like a detailed description of what Actions are and how they work, our documentation would be a good place to start: https://docs.basedash.com/actions
Summer Bod 2020