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Fastgen

Visual low-code backend builder

API
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No-Code

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.

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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!

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Absolutely love the product and the team! Keep up the incredible work! fastgen is gonna be sooo valuable 😍

Congrats on this tool! I've seen some of the things this team built and I'm excited about this.

Fastgen is changing the game when it comes to validating software in the early stages of development. They've got a no-code backend product that's perfect for non-techies wanting to build lasting software products. The best part? They launched with logging and debug mode, so developing your product is super easy! Huge shoutout to the fastgen team.

Sounds interesting. I wonder what the entry level of development expertise you need to have to be able to use this?

This is a really interesting idea. Lot's of backend tasks are repetitive and can be automated. We're building a next-level cloud provider and I see ways how we can collaborate in the future. Let's get in touch.

This is quite something. I like how easy it is to setup workflows. Great products guys!

Wow, that's amazing news! Congratulations Fastgen for launching the greatest visual low-code backend builder! It sounds like a powerful, user-friendly tool for creating scalable backends and automation.

Congratulations on the launch of Fastgen on Product Hunt. Looking forward use it!

Strong team, even stronger product. Low Code is the future for early stage dev, and these guys have done a masterful job delivering an easy solution atop the most common DBs in use today.

Can’t speak more highly of Mike and the founding team at Fastgen. Incredible platform as well. Keep it up!

Amazing! The future of low-code is super interesting pretty much for any startup or company where people wear many hats. Excited to what’s to come in the next release 😍