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Scaphold 2.0 — GraphQL backend as a service
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@mrjmetz Thanks for the kind support. We're really excited to be able to help shape backend development in a new way with GraphQL and more!
@_codyjoseph Great question - that's supposed to be a VR headset :) (simplified for design)
@vincening I had a sneaking suspicion... :) dare I ask... what does VR have to do with GraphQL?
@_codyjoseph It's one of the newest frontiers for tech platforms that can be built on GraphQL. Facebook uses GraphQL already with Oculus, and there are a few VR companies built on Scaphold already too!
Learning GraphQL was one of my favorite dev experiences of the past year. One of the few pain points was writing all the boilerplate code, this looks to abstract away all that to let you focus on the fun parts. I assume this works with Apollo as well as Relay on the front end? Which would you recommend for someone coming at this fresh?
@kleneway Hey Kevin thanks for sharing your thoughts!
Indeed Scaphold makes it so that you don't have to write any server side code actually and allows you to focus on building your frontend app. As for frontend caching libraries, both Apollo and Relay play nicely with Scaphold so the choice is ultimately yours. Apollo does have a lot more support for different frameworks apart from React though, and they seem to be pushing out more support for mobile as well.
We use Apollo to power Scaphold's frontend, and I can help you get started if you want. Feel free to message me directly on our community Slack (http://slack.scaphold.io) channel. I'm @vince
Hey guys,
This looks awesome! This sort of resembles Parse in a way, but purely lets you use GraphQL to take care of the entire backend?
Maybe you can help me out a bit here: What is the unique thing GraphQL provides and how does it differentiate from other backend services?
Also do you have any sort of video tutorials to help me build an app with GraphQL or anything like that?
Awesome stuff again, and best of luck in YC!
@zainmanji Thanks Zain! Here is a tutorial on how to build a chat app called slackr! It only takes a couple of minutes and features some cool new technologies like GraphQL subscriptions.
@inventanew Hey John, its similiar in some ways but we think we have a more competitive offering based on a couple core metrics. We give more value in our starter tiers, provide different features such as analytics, more comprehensive integrations, aggregations, indexing, interfaces, and complex custom business logic workflows.
@firasalmanna Hey Firas, I would love to hear more feedback on what pricing makes the most sense for you? That was actually the intention of having the custom tier. Every application is different so that tier is designed to provide you the most value for the metrics that matter to you.
@michael_paris Okay, I didn't understand custom like this, as usually services providers put the last plan without pricing and they mean if you need (more) and usually they target enterprises for this plan.
I think that pay-as-you-go plan is the best for startups, as we can expect what are we gonna pay for development/testing/and production. If you can make the startup plan more flexible it would be great.
Congrats on the launch guys, the product has come a long way. Highly recommend it to anyone thinking about using a Backend-as-a-Service. Excited to see where it goes next!
This is awesome, I've wanted to dabble with GraphQL for a while now, but never got round to setting anything up. Seeing you have a free tier as well I think this will be a great way to get started
@tom_berwick Thanks Tom! Let me know if you need any help onboarding and feel free to join our slack http://slack.scaphold.io
Good to see you guys on here! I used this to dabble with GraphQL, but was pleasantly surprised to find it's way, way more. It's a CDN, database, and logic handling machine. I wish there was a better way to explain that on the site.
Anyway, we're building a sweet new chat app on Scaphold, so keep it going :)
@khallil Hey thanks for the support! If you're looking for resources to help you navigate your way through Scaphold's newest features, we have a fast-growing community site filled with learning guides, code examples, and FAQs here (https://scaphold.io/community/).
Hope this helps!
We’ve tried multiple GraphQL BaaS platforms including Scaphold and ended up choosing a different service. Maybe that’s has changed over the last few weeks but we experienced severe stability/performance problems and constantly ran into bugs. Most of their integrations didn’t work properly so eventually we’ve decided for Graphcool which works pretty well so far.
@danieldaniel I'm sorry to hear that your experience didn't go so well on Scaphold! We've been hard at work stabilizing the platform a ton in the past few months and would love for you to try it out again if you have some time. What integrations were you using in particular? I can certainly help with that.
Thanks for the feedback!
@vincening Cool oke! thanks, yeah we will try again some time. Sometimes it's just too early, eh? :)
@danieldaniel Yep yep, best of luck with your development and if there's any way we can help down the road, let us know.
Thanks for hunting us Sam!
Hey product hunt, we’re Scaphold and we’re here to help you build better apps with GraphQL. Today we’re officially unveiling Scaphold 2.0! We first launched our GraphQL Backend as a Service back in May and since then a lot has changed! We have rebuilt most of the platform from the ground up and it is more powerful than ever! In seconds, you can deploy a production ready GraphQL API backed by super scalable infrastructure hosted on AWS. The platform is full of features. We include an intuitive schema designer for defining your data model, role and graph-based permissions for complex access control, realtime functionaliy with GraphQL subscriptions, integrations with popular services like Stripe, Algolia, and social auth providers, analytics and monitoring, as well as our newest feature Logic! Logic allows you to compose micro services and extend your Scaphold app with unlimited business logic hosted on your own infrastructure or in the cloud.
We built Scaphold to help app developers like ourselves build things faster and we hope you like it! We’d be happy to answer any questions and hear your feedback!
Thanks!
Washio