@giuliano84 Looks pretty cool! Booked a session for monday. But would have a hard time committing to such tool unless the pricing was more transparent.

@matgosselin what's not transparent about the pricing?

@giuliano84 Oh! I just saw the first page: https://stamplay.com/pricing which doesn't show pricing at all. So thought that it's either free or you have to contact 'someone' to get the pricing. Either I haven't been observant enough or that's a bit misleading ;-). But now I can see on https://stamplay.com/pricing/self .

@giuliano84 btw for the premium, it says "20+ million". Does that mean it's uncapped?

@giuliano84 just a note that I also ran into the pricing confusion; I can see why, with all the tiers, that you may not want it all on the same page... but at first glance figured it was either a freemium for devs or had to do the "call for demo" enterprise thing. That aside, I like what you're doing here with Stamplay! Lots of great stuff happening with automation these days.

thanks @nagra__ ! Unlike the IFTTT we allow people to build full-fledged service based apps, you can build API endpoint that trigger workflows, you can run scheduled processes, or you can build an end-to-end app just by hooking up a front-end to the API you build with Stamplay. Basically Sky is the limit!

@giuliano84 @nagra__ Makes me remind those days of Yahoo Pipes. One of the projects I loved most, unfortunately taken down later.

@acpmasquerade @nagra__ yeah I think the concept has been there since a while now but I believe that this can happen only now with the fully matured API economy of today. Back in the days that tools where too focused on trying to make coding visual. This is about making programming visual using APIs which is a slight but fundamental difference.

@paulmboyce you're right! The day where everyone will be able to bend the internet at their will is getting closer and closer :)

@giuliano84 exactly - and that's the goal, right?! :)

@tomsoderlund Weld is a great front-end tool and the mix of the two product is explosive. We should look at some joint marketing activity and show people how to build an end to end web app using our service. How does it sound?

@brentsum @giuliano84 Same here, By the way Brent I got a lot of value from your courses. Experimenting with Weld and Stamplay as well, I am feeling like there is no limits.

@ciricmarko Totally agreed! The number of SaaS applications has exploded and there is a rising wave of software innovation in the area of APIs that provide critical connective tissue and increasingly important functionality. There has been a proliferation of third-party API companies, which is fundamentally changing the dynamics of how software is created and brought to market. Developers have learned not to expend precious resources on reinventing the wheel but instead to rely on APIs from the larger platforms, such as Twilio, Stripe, Sendgrid, PubNub and so on.. Applications have no choice but to speak with other APIs as they are actually built using different APIs. Unfortunately composing services comes with challenges because APIs are different from each other and orchestrating them gets worst as you need to connect more of them. The number of ways to combine them increases exponentially and we’re just at the very beginning. This is why I believe that products like this can be huge enablers to help people put their ideas online :)

@v3ss0n I don't think backend developers should be worried at all, as we're not trying to replace them. It's really about avoiding reinventing the wheel over and over again and focus on coding what matters most :) What do you think?

@giuliano84 can we combine with Firebase too?

@v3ss0n yes we do integrate Firebase, it is available as a component. Stamplay is designed to be an open platform and anything that has an open REST API can be integrated or connected to it. We don't want to put any constraint our users as we believe that the true power is in enabling people to use their favorite tools and provide an easy way to orchestrate them.

@tauno sounds great! Also do keep in mind that any building block or third party API that you don't see available can be easily added (it's not a public feature yet but we can add a new API in less than day). Also if you need more custom logic you can create code blocks with NodeJS and plug it between steps. Let me know if you have any other question!

@giuliano84 @tauno When he speaks in the name, I can use Node red? Congratulations!👏

@almackin thanks Al! When we'll see Formisimo API live and have it available as a building block in Stamplay?

@00taffe Thanks man, I see you are a frontend developer, what is your favorite framework?

@kevin_granger thanks a lot! The Algolia integration is killer and it's great to be featured in your docs https://www.algolia.com/doc/tuto...

@firasalmanna you rock! It's great to see people with so many different tech skills being able to use the platform to build apps

thanks @distrodom :) It has been great to see 500Strong distro team use stamplay and see how very powerful landing pages with great logic can be built without writing much code at all!

@giuliano84 @distrodom Examples?

@dshan @distrodom the landing page on steroids was pretty cool. The landing page sends an HTTP request with the captured email to an endpoint on stamplay that triggers the following flow: - enrich user personal data using clearbit (props @mattsornson) - if the email is not a personal address (@gmail @hotmail..) - collect user's company data from the email domain - store user and company data on stamplay provided database - add user on intercom / mailchimp / autopilot (that then starts a drip email campaign) - remove him from a Facebook custom audience used for retargeting - post on slack the full enriched profile To this followed: - when a user unsubscribe from the drip email campaign - add him on a Facebook custom audience for retargeting

@spetry we try to do our best. Stamplay provides support for geo-queries and everything you need on the server-side of an app to run location based apps. Wouldn't be cool to use MapJam on the client-side from Stamplay powered data?

@sethfeibus I always love to hear stories like this one. Stay tuned as we have a lot of other exciting things coming up!

@orliesaurus You're assuming it right, with Code Blocks you can create custom code made building blocks and chain them into Flows. Moreover every Code Block that you create is available as an API :)

@giuliano84 awesome! I like it when I'm right - and that's a really good selling point btw, custom code ftw ;)

@ariel_janover thanks!!! Can I ask what are the most used APIs at Raconto?

@giuliano84 Of course! We use APIs to integrate with Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and YouTube. Also many of the services offered by AWS.

@ariel_janover cool looks like we do already cover most of them :) Regarding all the social APIs that you mentioned are that used to cross-post / share stuff on that channels or to build web apps (e.g an app with Facebook login)?

@giuliano84 we used them to share content. Particularly, Facebook has some cool targeting features that you can use while sharing. I'd like to play around and see how this work with Flows.

@jcwinter it depends from how you'd like to use it, and I can guess, as a additional authentication system for end users right?

@giuliano84 would want to be able to use it as the only authentication system as an alternative to the option you have natively built. Would just give us the ability to tap into their larger feature set around authentication later on down the road, would just be easier to start out with that for the project I am working on.

@t_dnzt ahah everyone loves Lego! Again we're not trying to put out of job anyone, we want to avoid you enjoy coding the fun stuff and avoid reinventing the wheel or cut and paste boilerplate code :) Fair enough right?