Napkin is the next-generation production-ready backend development tool in your browser. Fast, powerful code editor, zero configuration instant deployment, instant API endpoints, unlimited λ functions. No infra. No boilerplate. Just code.
@thomaswang We're working really hard on making backend development as easy, fast and fun as possible. Thanks everyone for the feedback and support! We're very eager to hear and iterate on your use cases and feature requests. Feel free to reach out to me at nick@napkin.io with any feedback.
@thomaswang@napkin@syps Cool product, but it's breaking for me. Not able to create new napkins, the one I tried is just showing a loading icon, and I am unable to log in from another device. I recognize that Napkin is in beta (and is very new) so hope you will fix this. Anyways I love the idea, good job 😊.
@nickabouzeid@thomaswang This is actually so cool. Just deployed my own napkin and it's actually working. There are some rough edges, running while development sometimes returns empty response and logs (even though I added logs to see if the problem came from me), however deploying and using in production seems to be fine!
I still remember the first hackathon I used Parse at. It changed the game for me.
People always made fun of my coding skills bc I didn't even have my own laptop when I went to my first hackathon freshman year in college and had never really coded before then. I quickly learned how to build some stuff on the frontend but absolutely sucked at backend bc i just could never get the dev environments working and deployed right. It was so frustrating.
When Parse launched Parse Cloud it changed the game for me. I could write functions in javascript and suspend them into the cloud to call from anywhere my app. Didn't have to worry about doing backend dev at all. When Parse sold out to Facebook and they shut it down, I cried. Today, I cried again. Napkin gives me hope that I can one day become the very best developer like no one ever was and build shit without needing to rely on those backend developers who would always make fun of me and tell me i wasnt a real hacker bc i couldnt build a backend.
Thank you @thomaswang and @syps. Thank you for breathing new life into me as a dev. Thank you for building napkin. I can't wait to hack again and finally finish building robinclout: http://bitclout.com/u/robinclout
Okay this is one of those rare products that makes you want to come back to PH and leave a feedback. Love the GUI based editing and instant deploys. I've tried Replit before, but for backend development, having trying napkin out since the last half hour, napkin stood out to me, even in the current beta release with clear differentiated offering and production readiness. Good job you guys!
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