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ishmaelsamuel

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ishmaelsamuel··on Launch HN: Paragon (YC W20) – Visually Build API Workflows
Thank you! We built it ourselves in React, though we used the styled-components and react-beautiful-dnd packages for building the components and helping with the dragging functionality. - https://styled-components.com - https://github.com/atlassian/react-beautiful-dnd
ishmaelsamuel··on Launch HN: Paragon (YC W20) – Visually Build API Workflows
Ahh, gotchya. We're not using Kafka or any tools for code gen / boilerplating code.
ishmaelsamuel··on Launch HN: Paragon (YC W20) – Visually Build API Workflows
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ishmaelsamuel··on Launch HN: Paragon (YC W20) – Visually Build API Workflows
Heya! We have given some thought to implementing CI, reviews, and a sandbox environment.

We've built out some testing functionality that allows users to test their workflows and steps, and we're going to continue down this road to eventually provide our users version control and sandbox environments. It's currently seen as a "nice-to-have" for even our production users, so the timing of when it's implemented is still unclear.

ishmaelsamuel··on Launch HN: Paragon (YC W20) – Visually Build API Workflows
Writing the code yourself is always going to give you the most flexibility. This comes at the cost of complexity and domain expertise.

If you wanted to run something like this on a schedule, monitor execution results step by step, ensure your credentials are stored securely, etc, the barrier to entry to building this in terms of time and expertise suddenly jumps significantly, as well as the services / infrastructure required. We provide all of this out of the box with Paragon.

However, if you have all the domain expertise of the variety of languages, services, etc and prefer to spend the time writing the code yourself and managing the infra, that's okay. If you prefer to code, no code's just not for you and it doesn't have to be ^__^

ishmaelsamuel··on Launch HN: Paragon (YC W20) – Visually Build API Workflows
Noted, adding your use case to our internal board
ishmaelsamuel··on Launch HN: Paragon (YC W20) – Visually Build API Workflows
Thank you!
ishmaelsamuel··on Launch HN: Paragon (YC W20) – Visually Build API Workflows
Thank you! Our cofounder @fooly_wk did it himself. We've built everything in house.
ishmaelsamuel··on Launch HN: Paragon (YC W20) – Visually Build API Workflows
Hey! We're not exposing anything like Kafka to our end users. We think all of the underlying technical infrastructure should be abstracted so the users can focus on their core logic.

We're also not currently exposing any external Swagger / OpenAPI docs for a similar reason, but it's simple to integrate and we've considered generating it for our more technical users.

If you're interested in joining the team as an engineer, we're hiring! https://www.notion.so/Paragon-is-Hiring-ab5739dac1c4490db920...