Whether you are building a new app or you need to enhance the API response times for an existing app. Sections can be used to serve static or 3rd-party content while keeping your API response time below 100ms at scale.
Hello everyone,
I'm thrilled to announce the launch of Sections and couldn't be more excited to share this with the world, starting with the Product Hunt community.
This launch represents the culmination of five years of diligent work in our software engineering shop. Our journey has involved intensive coding, optimization, testing, measuring, and iterating. We initially built Sections out of dissatisfaction with existing technologies and solutions intended to enhance API performance. We found that these solutions often added unnecessary complexity to the tech stack, focusing on symptoms rather than addressing the root of the problem. This approach overlooked certain edge cases and introduced additional issues.
With Sections, we adopted a different strategy. We didn't ask builders to compromise on performance, simplicity, or flexibility. Instead, we provide a tool that allows any builder to divide a large workload into smaller chunks (which we call "Sections"). Our engine then parallelizes the rendering of these chunks.
Here's what Sections offers:
No compromise on simplicity: What you build is exactly what's served to your users.
No compromise on flexibility: When your data changes, it's instantly served to your users.
No compromise on performance: Each section is small enough to render quickly. Add as many sections as you like, and watch as it scales seamlessly.
Over the last five years, Sections has been used in production for four of them, and we've been refining it step by step. Now, we believe it's robust enough to be shared with other builders!
We're so thrilled about launching Sections on Product Hunt that we've prepared some exclusive packages for the community, in addition to the free one you can start with: https://sections.geeks.solutions/ph
I hope you'll enjoy it. I'm looking forward to reading your reviews and feedback on Sections, which will help us to continually improve our product.
Thank you!
Speed is a critical factor for user experience on a website. Users tend to have really little patience for websites to load, that is where Sections can help.
Sections is a high-performance serverless engine that accelerates page rendering time.
The app you didn’t know you need, all of sudden you can’t live without it. Strong team behind it with an eye for QA. Recommended.
Wow we ended up being #12 on the daily ranking.
To be honest, I wasn't expecting to reach this position given all the cool no-code tools that are being launched on PH.
it's great to see how welcomed the idea behind Sections has been on its first day. From the bottom of my heart, thank you to all the supporters!
It's just the beginning ;-)
Congratulations @julien_fayad on the successful launch! This innovative solution is designed specifically for website owners and developers. Website owners can enjoy the benefits of a lightning-fast website that loads quickly, while developers can efficiently build and reuse main components without the need for deployment.
Once again, congratulations on this amazing achievement! ♥️
This could be a game changer! Innovative tech for a practical problem. Well done!
Congrats on the launch!
I'm thankful we have all our API issues sorted, but you've got a great product here and my team has your details if we need something in the future.
congratulations🎉🥳 on the launch man.
I like the user interface of the site. looking fabulous✨
Indeed, according to Content Square the main friction point for online experiences is page loading time. Section is promising <50ms. that's impressive and revolutionary!
About Sections on Product Hunt
“A high-performance serverless engine to accelerate any API”
Sections launched on Product Hunt on June 16th, 2023 and earned 118 upvotes and 37 comments, placing #11 on the daily leaderboard. Whether you are building a new app or you need to enhance the API response times for an existing app. Sections can be used to serve static or 3rd-party content while keeping your API response time below 100ms at scale.
Sections was featured in Design Tools (259.7k followers), API (98.1k followers) and Developer Tools (511.4k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 111.7k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted Sections?
Sections was hunted by Fabian Maume. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
Want to see how Sections stacked up against nearby launches in real time? Check out the live launch dashboard for upvote speed charts, proximity comparisons, and more analytics.
Fabian Maume