To be clear we solve some of the same problems. We just provide different solutions. StamPlay appears to be a visual development workflow where as Brightwork leverages the skills you already have and just provides a way to speed up backend development.

Both solutions offload infrastructure hosting and management.

To get started on the Brightwork platform all you need to understand is basic RESTful services, JSON and JavaScript.

Our hopes is that on boarding a new developer on the platform who has the aforementioned skills will only take about 10 mins of setup and learning time.

The main reason is that you only need to learn the Brightwork constructs: BrightStacks (vertical APIs, Data, Storage, etc), BrightPacks (pre-bundled code and workflow, e.g. user registration) and BrightBots (your code).

In the future we hope to build a community around BrightPacks. Allowing users to contribute. For Example, the Core BrightPack will offer user authentication and registration. However, it will not offer secondary SMS verification. Maybe someone would want to build that and offer it as a public BrightPack for others to leverage.

Thanks for all your feedback!

Hey guys, Stamplay's founder here!

It's hard to say by a simple landing page but the service looks quite different in terms of offering.

The visual workflow builder of Stamplay is just a fraction of the whole offering and can be used by developers to orchestrate services or build business logic of their apps quicker.

Aside from that we to offer out of the box User authentication and management API, social signup, Data storage API with automatic generation database and REST API on top of the data model you define, Serverless code execution to implement any custom logic (AWS Lambda like), 3rd party API integrations (Stripe, Sendgrid, Twilio, Firebase, AWS SNS, AWS SQS.. and more), Cronjobs, Webhooks, CDN backed hosting for static assets with SSL + custom domain support.

As long as you understand basic RESTful services, JSON and JavaScript you can use all our core API. Modularity is a key factor of our platform and developers can already share "Code Blocks" to add specific features to their apps.

Brightworks seems more close to be an API design tool and to manage it over the time but I look forward to see more :)

The Dashboard houses all the information about the API. So you can see performance (jitter, packet loss, etc), usage data, and cost projections. So you can tell if an API is costing you more than a competing API. This way, when you want to switch APIs, you can do so knowing you're switching to a better API that will cost you less money. The API switching on the fly is just a bonus. :)