Forest Admin - Your back office, redefined.

@dessaigne Thank you! We are very excited to introduce Forest to you hunters. Forest is a universal admin interface designed to manage your application data and all your specific business operations. We created Forest to make developer’s lives easier. Configuration is super easy. Install the Forest agent in your application (Ruby on rails and node.js for now, more coming soon). It instantly analyzes your data models and automatically sets up your admin interface. You can extend the REST API and use the WYSIWYG interface to handle complex scenarios without any restrictions and also connect your other services - like Intercom, Stripe, Mixpanel, Google Analytics, Mailchimp, etc. - to gather all your intelligence in one place. We hope you like it! Tell us what you think of the app and I will be happy to reply to any comments and questions :)

@seyz_ good job Sandro... We will probably use it.

@asatwork Awesome Alexandre! The installation takes less than 1 min ;) Thanks!!

@seyz_ @dessaigne Do you have plans to support Google App Engine?

@sajeev @dessaigne We have not looked too much into Google App Engine at the moment, but the more people are interested the faster the support will come 🙂

@rodardant Thanks Rod, glad to see Forest used on a daily basis at Spendesk :)

@maxberthelot Thanks Max for the kind words! We’re eager to have Buffer on our testimonials page :wink:

@jaewunz Hey Luke! Yeah, we are currently working on PHP support :)

@jaewunz Yes I just put in a request for Laravel too, that was my first check.

@seyz_ @jaewunz Sandro, any idea on when? (this summer, later?)

@brusselsregular @jaewunz We’ve got someone starting on Monday to work through the Symfony2 implementation, we’re expecting to have something stable early July. Depending on how much tweaking that implementation requires to be adapted to Laravel, it should follow suit rather quickly 🙂

@seyz_ @brusselsregular If you need beta testers, you know where to find us :)

@prahasith_v That is precisely what we set out to do: save dev’s precious time so they can focus on building their product. Happy to save you from a couple headaches as you’re non-technical users jump onboard 😉. Be sure to take full advantage of our two month trial if you sign up using PH-link 💸

@j00st Hey Joost! We are supporting Rails and Express frameworks right now. We are currently wording on a Symfony support (and other PHP frameworks). What's your frameworks? :)

@seyz_ Laravel

@j00st Noted. It's been bumped to the top of our roadmap

@seyz_ Laravel is built on top of Symphony, so if you already have a symphony version in the process then it should be pretty straightforward.

@_jacurtis Thanks for letting us know. We actually haven't had much time to investigate Laravel. As you say, it will be ready a short while after symfony support.

@tombenattar Thanks Tom! :)

@jacoplane We’re entertaining the idea of supporting BaaS services such as Firebase but haven’t had much time to look into their APIs until now. We’re listening to what our users and prospects are saying, so the more people express their interest in those the higher it’ll stand on our to-do list 😊

@seyz_ @jacoplane How about support for Angular w/ Node? Clojure | Datomic | Dynamo backend? Can we use NPM w/ Node even if not using Rails | Express | Mongoose?

@djwideman @jacoplane What do you mean by "Angular w/ Node" and "NPM w/ Node" ? Just to make sure we’re on the same page ;)

@seyz_ @jacoplane it looks like your currently supported stacks are rails & express, with an option to install forest via npm on node.js. we're an angular app--can we use same npm install on our node server, even though our stack isn't yet officially supported?

@djwideman @jacoplane The way Forest has been developed as little to do with the technologies you are using on the front-end side of your app. NPM being the package manager of choice when it comes to Node, it’s just way easier to rely on it for the delivery of the Forest Liana. It will unfortunately only work with frameworks that are supported at the moment (namely Express in Node’s case). I’m afraid you’ll have to sit tight as we work towards bringing support to increasingly more stacks.

@stefanobernardi Thanks Stefano! I completely understand the problem of an "hosted solution". That's why we architectured Forest from the ground up with data privacy in mind. Data is transferred directly from your application to your browser while remaining invisible to our servers. We are confident that Forest will bring you enough value and free enough of your time to definitely be worth those prices :) BTW, it's completely free on your local machine :)

@seyz_ will try it for the next project for sure. Will see if the price is justifiable from day 1. Maybe a cheaper plan would make me go through much more confidently. I can definitely see the value as soon as you have a lot of data / ops / etc.

@stefanobernardi It's free on localhost, forever. As soon as you're ready to onboard your business team, you have 30 days trial. Plus 30 days for product hunters if you signup today :)

@stefanobernardi yeah I'd like a $49 starting price pwease :)

@james_osullivan @stefanobernardi If you sign up for a one-year plan and factor in the two-month free trial for our Hunters, you’ll end up getting Forest for $51,75. So, if you act fast, it’s already roughly the case 🤓

@raphdg Thanks Raph, we’re really happy to see Illustrio’s making the most out of Forest! You were among our star beta testers, and we’re so glad to help you go further on your journey to bring beauty to the illustration world :D

@jakeapeters Thanks Jake, we could not have said it better :blush: Great to see you here!

@seyz_ Happy to. Keep up the good work! 👍

@kris_shkodrani Happy to hear that Kris! Don’t hesitate to hit us up if you have any question or anything 😊. I was exactly in your shoes one year ago when I set on building Forest, fed up with the existing gems and convinced that there could be something more

@benjam1n Exactly, AIaaS or AaaS even (our personal preference)! Meteor just bumped one spot on the « frameworks to support » list. Alpha version is currently being tested. We will send you an email as soon as the rough edges are dealt with.

@seyz_ Awesome!

@seyz_ @benjam1n keen for meteor support too _b

@rdyson Much appreciated Rob! Really happy to count Willing as one of our more enthusiastic –dare I say lively – users 😉

@seyz_ Too true!

@requilence Wow, good eye Roman! 🕵 Thanks for pointing that out, we’re working on resolving asap 👍

@requilence Fixed :) Thanks for report!

@laur3ntk Thanks Laurent, we really try to make the interface as intuitive and beautiful as possible. Glad you like it! And there’s more to come, we’ve got lots of ideas to make your admin shine :blush:

@ablejoseph Awesome to see you here Able, and thanks for your comment. Coming from you guys and knowing your pixel perfectionism, it means a lot! 👌

@saintmac Thanks for the kind words Martin! Happy to count Vyte among our most fervent testers, despite the bugs of the early days 😉

@jarrodzimm @seyz_ Pretty sure Sandro said the data never lives on their server – it's only a middle man.

@joe_legnd @seyz_ Thanks, Joe. I was having trouble confirming that.

@jarrodzimm @joe_legnd That’s exactly what we’re doing, thanks Joe for clearing that up for us 🙂 Our Live Demo itself is actually hosted on Heroku (you can have a look at the code if you fancy, it’s on our GitHub organisation’s page)

@seyz_ Fantastic! Do you have a list of integrations besides Intercom and Stripe? I see some additional companies on your homepage. Any plans for a Campaign Monitor integration?