How to build a Salesforce Managed Packages for a B2B SaaS Product?
I recently had to build a simple Salesforce managed package for my startup. It enabled a two way sync between a custom object in salesforce and the data in our system. At the end of the day, it was basically a simple CRUD app.
However, this process was way more painful than expected. I had to learn Apex, Visualforce, and all the nuances of the salesforce developer platform. Salesforce documentation is really focused on building apps inside salesforce, so I ended up relying on blog posts to fill in the gaps. All in all, a project that should have taken a few days or a week ended up taking two months!
How are folks, especially in the early stages, building their Salesforce integrations? Is there a tool? Paying a consultant? Sucking it up and just doing it?
I now it's an old post, just leaving that here for anyone that might stumble upon it wondering the same, we've signed up to using a DevOps tool (Tekunda Serpent) for the past couple of weeks, that at least took away all the headache of creating scratch orgs, running tests automatically, managing releases and creating the packages; leaving us with more time focusing on the actual product.