Fastgen is a low-code API and workflow builder with an integrated Postgres DB to create any custom business logic or complete backends. Build through a drag-and-drop interface and directly test and deploy on the platform.

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!

@david_nordhausen Congratulations on the launch of Fastgen on Product Hunt!👍 With its drag-and-drop interface, debugging mode, and logging capabilities, Fastgen empowers users to build and optimize APIs and workflows effortlessly. We're excited to try out the platform and provide feedback as you continue backend development. Best of luck and looking forward to seeing Fastgen thrive!💪

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?

@rrhoover Simplifying the building process is exactly what we are after. We hope to see many products built with Fastgen on Product Hunt in the future. Regarding your question. Our goal with Fastgen is to make API and workflow creation as simple and intuitive as possible without compromising on the power and flexibility that developers need. Striking this balance has been a major challenge on the product side. On a more technical level, we needed to build Fastgen with the ability to scale from the very beginning. Ensuring that our DevOps setup is flexible enough but also performant and scalable was a major challenge when we started. We planned the architecture for a whole month before writing a single code line.

Appreciations, @mikemahlkow , for shedding light on the infrastructure setup challenges you encountered. Your insights provide reassurance to us at SuperDev (https://www.superdev.cloud/), as our primary aim is to empower companies to prioritise their product code right from the beginning. With our automated infrastructure solutions, businesses can effortlessly scale in the cloud, leaving the technical complexities to us.

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?

@tobiaskemkes thanks for the kind words and happy to hear that you've found fastgen useful for building your internal workflows! We are continually looking to improve our platform and incorporate our user's feedback into our roadmap. One of the next big things on our roadmap is the creation of a "Fastgen Hub". We recognize the power of community and shared knowledge, and this hub is going to be a space where users like yourself can share their flows, API's and automations. This will allow you to easily discover and reuse workflows created by others, save time, and leverage the collective knowledge of our user base. We hope that this will not only enrich your experience with Fastgen, but also contribute to a collaborative and supportive Fastgen community.

Great experience using Fastgen. The team is always hands-on & available to provide support. I highly recommend Fastgen.

I have been using Fastgen for the last 3 months and it has been a lifesaver for someone who works with multiple businesses and wants to move fast. The support and product are truly life-changing for me.

I've been using Fastgen for my recent projects and absolutely love it! Can't recommend it enough to engineers who are looking to spin up CRUD APIs quickly.

Great experience using Fastgen. The team is always hands-on & available to provide support. I highly recommend Fastgen.

I've been using Fastgen for my recent projects and absolutely love it! Can't recommend it enough to engineers who are looking to spin up CRUD APIs quickly.

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