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Alex Yaseen

Parabola 2.0 — Automate manual processes without spreadsheets or code

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Repetitive tasks are for machines. Free up your time to discover new ways to use your data and leave the boring stuff to us. Parabola 2.0 now enables anyone to use drag-and-drop to build flows with powerful sources, transforms

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Alex Yaseen
Maker
Hi Product Hunt! Co-Founder/CEO here at Parabola. We’re really excited to show you what we’ve been up to and hear what you think! Parabola 2.0 has some incredible new features, including: - Huge amount of new sources (like Product Hunt and GDAX) as well as new transforms (like sentiment analysis and Google Maps) - A new category of objects called destinations that let you take action and send data to other tools (like Salesforce and Geckoboard) - The ability to schedule flows to run on our servers - A fantastic new design - Improved performance, stability, keyboard shortcuts, and so much more If you could use help getting started, we have some templates to get you off to the races. Since this is Product Hunt, you may be particularly interested in this one: https://parabola.io/recipes/trac... Please let us know what you think, and if you have any questions please don’t hesitate to reach out!
Pascal Andy
@alexyaseen I still no idea what your product is. Any use case to share?
Alex Yaseen
Maker
@_pascalandy we have some collections of use cases and corresponding ready-to-use templates here: https://parabola.io/use-cases
Ghilia Weldesselasie
Curious as to what makes this different from Zapier other than sources like GDAX (which is pretty neat!).
Michael Oblak
@ghiliweld Exactly. I have the same question. What the main difference between Parabola and Zapier?
Alex Yaseen
Maker
Hi @ghiliweld and @michaloblak, we focus primarily on data manipulation, whereas Zapier has a fantastic library of integrations and focuses primarily on moving data between two different tools. There are probably some simple use cases that could be solved by either tool, but as things get more complex, it's usually pretty clear which type of tool you need. Parabola is best for automating tasks that require a lot of logic, something that would otherwise require a lot of manual work in Excel or an engineer to write a script. We've seen some creative solutions to using both tools together, utilizing Google Sheets as an intermediary (e.g. Zapier responds to an event and puts data in a Google Sheet which Parabola grabs every hour, merges in other data sources, applies a variety of customizable complex logic, and then either takes its own action or pushes it back to a new Google Sheet that Zapier can listen to).
Chris Davis
@alexyaseen Interested to try this out -- I _just_ ported over a decently intricate process from Sheets to Zapier and it was slightly painful. Solving the logic-based pain point would be a great value-add. Also added to my "Tools for Non-Devs" collection: https://www.producthunt.com/@imc...
JP Bertram

We've been using Parabola for a few years and it's changed the way we do business. Parabola has allowed us to streamline and automate our manual sales operations processes, and do more with the free time that was created. We've been able to build automation flows without any coding experience and without borrowing engineering time. It's super easy. Whenever anything comes up internally, we often first ask, "I wonder if we can do this in Parabola?" Most of the time, the answer is yes. Definitely worth checking out if you're spending a lot of your day in spreadsheets. The potential is really left up to your imagination. Great product, great team.

Pros:

Simple UI, infinite use cases

Cons:

None

Alex Yaseen
Maker
The whole team just really enjoyed reading this review, thanks!
Amrith
Congrats on the launch @alexyaseen :) How would you differentiate Parabola from your competitors and what makes you better?
Alex Yaseen
Maker
Thanks @amrith! Our main value proposition to users is they can harness the power of programming without have to take on the overhead of actually learning how to code. Most of our users come to us after either wasting hours per week manually transforming/manipulating their data, or running into problems trying to pay engineers to write them scripts to do it. For example, we have some customers using Parabola to pull data out of Salesforce every night, merge in new data from form entries, clean/standardize/update everything, set open/close status on leads based on complex conditional logic, and then put it all back into Salesforce so that everything is ready for their AEs and SDRs in the morning.
Chris Frantz
This tool looks so good I'm trying to come up with a reason to use it. Maybe I'll give this recipe a try during our launch. https://parabola.io/recipes/trac...
Brian Sanchez
Maker
Hey @frantzlight that's great to hear! We are currently using a version of that recipe to track this launch on a big screen. Let me know what you end up building! Check out our PH dashboard here: https://share.geckoboard.com/das...
Chris Frantz
@briansanchez1 Nice! With no nav or footer, I could see hitting the fullscreen button and throw it up on an extra monitor during launch. Looks great!
Thomas Korte

Once everything is connected, the application is incredibly powerful.

Highly recommended for anyone with many data sources who needs to run analysis & share it with people who should not have access to the underlaying data, but the aggregate results/analysis.

Pros:

super useful once it is set up

Cons:

none

dan
This looks absolutely amazing! I love the graphical editor. I've been fiddling with scripts at our company of late to automate a few manual processes, I'm going to try to move them to Parabola! What an awesome product, you should be really proud!
Alex Yaseen
Maker
Thanks @dannolan! Let me know how it goes and feel free to reach out through Intercom if you need help getting set up!
Thomas Korte
Congrats @alexyaseen @mrmikelang. on the launch. I've seen parabola's evolution over the past year and I truly believe it is one of the best data manipulation tool out there. It does take a little effort to setup, but any excel wiz-kid is going to see the value immediately.
Fabrice Thilaw
How much time does it take to build such a platform ?
Justin DiPietro
Sounds like a great product. The issue I run into with products like this is security, I wish there was an embeddable on-prem version of this that I could incorporate into my product- or an open source version. Anyone have any ideas?
John Fowler
@alexyaseen What do you guys do with regards to security? The kind of data I would want to run through Parabola is pretty sensitive.
Alex Yaseen
Maker
@johnsteerfowler thanks for asking! We're very serious about security, and are currently pursuing third-party compliance certification. We store as little of your data as possible by only pulling in connected data sources on demand, and you can revoke our access to your data at any time. Happy to talk more about your specific situation, so feel free to reach out through email or Intercom.
Kestas Vaitelis
Great work guys. Is this API based or can I manipulate/transfer data anywhere? Seems this is heavily focused on Excel or is that not the case. Also is logic based on what I need in terms of my specific process or is it predetermined set of logical work algorithms I can choose from. Thank you
Alex Yaseen
Maker
Hi @kestasvv, if I'm understanding your question correctly, we have some integrations with 3rd party APIs in addition to generic imports/exports. As for logic, we have a whole library of transforms you can string together in any combination you can dream up. You could think of it as visual programming for data flows. Is there a specific use case you're trying to solve?
Kestas Vaitelis
@alexyaseen Thank you for your answer Alex. Let me rephrase. Am I correct to say that it is similar to Zapier or IFTTT and the biggest difference is depth of logic (what you can do with data when you take it). I think I will have to sign up to try it out to come up with use case :)
SebiVaduva

Alex & Mike have the right background, know-how and drive to build the future of data flows.

Pros:

Strong team with a solid vision!

Cons:

crowded space

Jon Sutherland
Maker
Hey PH! We're excited to be here today 😸 Happy to answer any questions about the product!
Yoav Cosiol
Very useful! How quickly will you be adding new tools?
Alex Yaseen
Maker
Hi @yc736, we're building new features like crazy, but we try to prioritize them based on customer demand! Here's our current public product roadmap: https://trello.com/b/OcrKpeE3/pa... You can submit new ideas and vote on existing ones there, but also feel free to reach out directly if there's anything specific you're looking for.
reid

I use daily for my reporting, now with scheduled runs, once I build my data flow, it will run how ever often I set it.

Pros:

Speeds up repetitive excel tasks and combine data from many sources

Cons:

Requires a few workarounds sometimes for something that is simple in excel to do

Alex Dosselmann
I like the idea!
Brian Bush

Daily user, super easy to get set up and integrate into your daily work

Pros:

Extremely easy to use even for novices

Cons:

None

Régis CHOURAQUI

I just tried it and it don't work with Google Analytics (init alert error).

I tried to kill my account and I can't find a way to do it.

The first step price is to high.

Pros:

Simple

Cons:

Bugs, expansive, can't kill account

Alex Yaseen
Maker
Hi Régis, if you're still having trouble, feel free to reach out through Intercom and we'll get you taken care of!
Marcin Jasiukowicz 🅨

How am I learn how usefull this app can be, when most of the functionality is locked?

Pros:

rich functionality

Cons:

most objects unavailable in the free tier