Integrating our Service with Addons.io
by Michael FrewQuotaGuard grew out of the Heroku eco-system starting wayyyyy back in 2013. Since then, Heroku has seen a lot of, shall we say, "changes"? Yea, "changes" is a good word.
One thing that we absolutely love about Heroku is the easy of use, especially setting up Add-on's for the marketplace. Since we've integrated with IBM Cloud (what a gawd-awful cloud platform : do not recommend), AWS, Azure, GCP, Render, and a few others, we're pretty attuned to how easy a marketplace is to integrate with and how much trouble it is for service to hitch into their eco-system.
Recently we started working with some other Heroku add-on service providers that were trying to simplify this process by taking all the good of the Heroku design, but making it plug-and-play for other platforms-as-a-service companies.
That's how we started working with Addons.io in the past month. We're trying to complete integrating our service into their platform to see where they can take it going forward.
The real goal would be for any Indie Hacker with a software/SaaS service that a platform's customers would need (db's, logging tools, network tools, security tools, etc) to hook into Addons.io and instantly be available on all sorts of PaaS's, like Render, Fly.io, AWS, Gigalixir, etc.
If this works, I'll make sure to write up a more formal experience document for other Indie Hackers in case Addons.io might be a good fit for them.
So far I'm impressed and they seem to have a really good start...
stay tuned...
