Fastgen

Hey Product Hunt Community 👋 We’re extremely excited to share Fastgen with you today, a low-code API and workflow builder with an integrated Postgres DB. You can use it to quickly build any custom business logic, cron jobs or complete backends. At our previous company we built several internal and external facing tools and encountered how tedious it can be to create and maintain myriads of APIs/CRUD operations. Especially when building for edge cases and “what if” scenarios, and integrating with lots of third party services which receive, update and return data. With Fastgen we try to eliminate boilerplate code and make it easier to adjust and share your work in a visual environment. 🔧 API & Workflow Builder Through a drag-and-drop interface you sequence 'actions' to form REST APIs and workflows. Actions are essentially functions that perform specific tasks such as sending an HTTP request, checking for conditions or interacting with a database. 🔍 Debug Mode Directly test and debug what you build within the platform. Receive insights into the step-by-step execution of action blocks to pinpoint issues and optimize them. 📊 Logging Access logs of all requests made to your APIs and Workflow executions to understand performance and easily do maintenance. 💻 Set Up We support SQL for database operations, JSON for data structure, and comparison operators similar to JavaScript for decision-making in workflows. 🧮 Database Every project comes with a hosted Postgres DB with out of the box validation rules. For full flexibility you can both connect an external DB as well as create custom validation rules. 🏗 Devops Everything you create can be deployed instantly and will be hosted for you. There’s lots of busywork that comes with backend development which we want to remove. While some users have created backends for full MVPs with us, others use the platform to build automations for their data/operations teams. For example an API that retrieves a company’s financial filings from the SEC for a crowdfunding platform, KYC onboarding flows, a Chinese translation app using ChatGPT, a cron job that checks for the health status of all other APIs in a code base, a custom sales lead recycling process, or a sitemap checker for a SEO project. We would love for you to try out the platform and are excited for your thoughts and feedback in the comments!

Big fan of tools that simplify the building process. The easier it is to turn an idea into a product, the more launches we'll see here. ;) I'm curious, what's been most challenging when building Fastgen?

I’ve been working a lot with low-code tools for building frontends and recently started to build my first internal workflows with Fastgen. Fantastic product you have built! What’s next on your roadmap?