Hi - I’m Ian, I’ve been building products for 20 years. For the past 7 I’ve been building products exclusively for myself and others.
I’m working on a new backend as a service that makes standing up a robust backend for your mobile, web, and desktop apps a breeze.
I’ve seen all the competitor products: firebase, prismic, sanity, darklang, graphcms, you name it. I’m taking a different approach.
This is a batteries-included, drop dead simple backend that lets you concentrate on product, not infrastructure.
I’ve been wanting to build this product for 5 years ever since I started delving into graph databases. Recent tech advancements here have made a lot of the previous challenges no longer a factor.
I’m looking for a handful of emerging companies who are just starting on dev and want to worry about building frontend applications, not their infrastructure.
I will be as involved as possible, will get your backend live, and all I ask in return is the learnings and testing you can offer along the way.
Thanks so much to everyone who wants to be involved.
Hello
Where can we have mor info about your backend stack @ianh?
What is The GraphDb? Neo4j, nebula, dgraph?
Node, Java, Go, Rust?
Thanks
Hello Ian,
I'm interested to learn more about you and what you do with API backends - I'm in the tour & travel sector where APIs are a must - I'f you'd like to chat, drop me a line at [email protected]
Curious if this can be integrated with something like Webflow 🧐🤔 I'm building something that's like Apple TV, News & the app store combined.
This is definitely an integration on my radar. I did a quick search and it seems like you can integrate custom JavaScript into Webflow but it really looks like a huge downgrade from the frontend frameworks we're used to. Currently it would be a huge pain to create a dynamic product using any backend and Webflow, but I guess it's possible.
On another note, Webflow is great for static landing pages + marketing but I really wouldn't suggest building a product on top of it.