Nicolas Dessaigne

Forest Admin - Your back office, redefined.

Hit the ground running with Forest, the back office solution that helps companies execute fast and at scale, with no time wasted on internal tools developed in-house.

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Nicolas Dessaigne
While have an admin section for your webapp is critical, it often lags in your dev backlog… Sounds familiar? Then check out Forest, a customizable plug-and-play admin interface! You can plug Forest to your rails or Node.js webapp. It will gather your data in one place. Super helpful for devs who want to focus on their product and who don’t have much time to spend on their admin interface.
Sandro Munda
@dessaigne Thank you! We are very excited to introduce Forest to you hunters. Forest is a universal admin interface designed to manage your application data and all your specific business operations. We created Forest to make developer’s lives easier. Configuration is super easy. Install the Forest agent in your application (Ruby on rails and node.js for now, more coming soon). It instantly analyzes your data models and automatically sets up your admin interface. You can extend the REST API and use the WYSIWYG interface to handle complex scenarios without any restrictions and also connect your other services - like Intercom, Stripe, Mixpanel, Google Analytics, Mailchimp, etc. - to gather all your intelligence in one place. We hope you like it! Tell us what you think of the app and I will be happy to reply to any comments and questions :)
Sandro Munda
@asatwork Awesome Alexandre! The installation takes less than 1 min ;) Thanks!!
Sajeev Aravindan
@seyz_ @dessaigne Do you have plans to support Google App Engine?
Sandro Munda
@sajeev @dessaigne We have not looked too much into Google App Engine at the moment, but the more people are interested the faster the support will come 🙂
Rodolphe Ardant
Awesome idea! Building your admin is a whole new product to handle in your company. Operations and customer support team needs it on a daily basis to get their job done. As you want to focus on your core product, your admin has always the lowest priority on your roadmap. Forest unload the charge for your dev team and provide autonomy to ops team. We use it at Spendesk and love the product! Congrats!
Sandro Munda
@rodardant Thanks Rod, glad to see Forest used on a daily basis at Spendesk :)
maxime berthelot
Forest is a really useful product ! We're having a look right now for Respond, a Buffer product ! Good job Team Forest ;)
Sandro Munda
@maxberthelot Thanks Max for the kind words! We’re eager to have Buffer on our testimonials page :wink:
Luke Johnson
Looks great, will we see a Laravel friendly Forest anytime soon?
Sandro Munda
@jaewunz Hey Luke! Yeah, we are currently working on PHP support :)
Jean-Marie
@seyz_ @jaewunz Sandro, any idea on when? (this summer, later?)
Sandro Munda
@brusselsregular @jaewunz We’ve got someone starting on Monday to work through the Symfony2 implementation, we’re expecting to have something stable early July. Depending on how much tweaking that implementation requires to be adapted to Laravel, it should follow suit rather quickly 🙂
Prah Veluvolu
We've been using rails console/scripts to support our users since launch. With a few non-technical team members joining our team soon, we knew we had to build an admin section but have been putting it off. This is going to save us a ton of dev hours :D
Sandro Munda
@prahasith_v That is precisely what we set out to do: save dev’s precious time so they can focus on building their product. Happy to save you from a couple headaches as you’re non-technical users jump onboard 😉. Be sure to take full advantage of our two month trial if you sign up using PH-link 💸
Joost Moerenburg
great idea, top bad it is in Ruby. Hard to find Ruby devs here in Holland.
Sandro Munda
@j00st Hey Joost! We are supporting Rails and Express frameworks right now. We are currently wording on a Symfony support (and other PHP frameworks). What's your frameworks? :)
Sandro Munda
@j00st Noted. It's been bumped to the top of our roadmap
J. Alexander Curtis
@seyz_ Laravel is built on top of Symphony, so if you already have a symphony version in the process then it should be pretty straightforward.
Sandro Munda
@_jacurtis Thanks for letting us know. We actually haven't had much time to investigate Laravel. As you say, it will be ready a short while after symfony support.
Tom Benattar
Congrats guys! It looks like an amazing product 👊
Sandro Munda
@tombenattar Thanks Tom! :)
Jaap Vermeulen
Is there any chance this will work with a Node/Firebase setup in the future?
Sandro Munda
@jacoplane We’re entertaining the idea of supporting BaaS services such as Firebase but haven’t had much time to look into their APIs until now. We’re listening to what our users and prospects are saying, so the more people express their interest in those the higher it’ll stand on our to-do list 😊
Daniel Wideman
@seyz_ @jacoplane How about support for Angular w/ Node? Clojure | Datomic | Dynamo backend? Can we use NPM w/ Node even if not using Rails | Express | Mongoose?
Sandro Munda
@djwideman @jacoplane What do you mean by "Angular w/ Node" and "NPM w/ Node" ? Just to make sure we’re on the same page ;)
Daniel Wideman
@seyz_ @jacoplane it looks like your currently supported stacks are rails & express, with an option to install forest via npm on node.js. we're an angular app--can we use same npm install on our node server, even though our stack isn't yet officially supported?
Sandro Munda
@djwideman @jacoplane The way Forest has been developed as little to do with the technologies you are using on the front-end side of your app. NPM being the package manager of choice when it comes to Node, it’s just way easier to rely on it for the delivery of the Forest Liana. It will unfortunately only work with frameworks that are supported at the moment (namely Express in Node’s case). I’m afraid you’ll have to sit tight as we work towards bringing support to increasingly more stacks.
Stefano Bernardi
This looks really awesome. Not entirely sure if a hosted solution is the best thing tho. Also, the pricing seems really high.
Sandro Munda
@stefanobernardi Thanks Stefano! I completely understand the problem of an "hosted solution". That's why we architectured Forest from the ground up with data privacy in mind. Data is transferred directly from your application to your browser while remaining invisible to our servers. We are confident that Forest will bring you enough value and free enough of your time to definitely be worth those prices :) BTW, it's completely free on your local machine :)
Stefano Bernardi
@seyz_ will try it for the next project for sure. Will see if the price is justifiable from day 1. Maybe a cheaper plan would make me go through much more confidently. I can definitely see the value as soon as you have a lot of data / ops / etc.
Sandro Munda
@stefanobernardi It's free on localhost, forever. As soon as you're ready to onboard your business team, you have 30 days trial. Plus 30 days for product hunters if you signup today :)
Sandro Munda
@james_osullivan @stefanobernardi If you sign up for a one-year plan and factor in the two-month free trial for our Hunters, you’ll end up getting Forest for $51,75. So, if you act fast, it’s already roughly the case 🤓
Raphaël De Giusti
At illustrio, we use the Forest admin interface daily (and in production). The setup is ultra fast and you get a basic interface that allows you to browse your data in a few minutes. You also get basic features for free that would take a huge amount of time to implement in a homemade back-office, like data filtering, grouping, pagination, graphs, stats... And I didn't even talk about the integrations. Being able to merge data from your database, stripe and intercom just by adding API keys is incredibly insightful. Then come the custom needs. Forest has really been thought around them. The learning curve is very smooth and they're improving their documentation every day. The project is young and I really think they're on the right track, as we already cannot spend a single day without it.
Sandro Munda
@raphdg Thanks Raph, we’re really happy to see Illustrio’s making the most out of Forest! You were among our star beta testers, and we’re so glad to help you go further on your journey to bring beauty to the illustration world :D
Taylor Sloane
Love the idea of Forest. Building admin dashboards is a pain point for sure! I can see the value here for non-technical founders and support staff to interact with data without having to rely on devs. It's come along way since I tried it out earlier this year—@seyz_ and the team are doing an awesome job.
Sandro Munda
@jakeapeters Thanks Jake, we could not have said it better :blush: Great to see you here!
Kris Shkodrani
I have tried some gems that help you build admins in Rails. I am definitely trying Forest. Thanks for making this cool product for #Rails too!
Sandro Munda
@kris_shkodrani Happy to hear that Kris! Don’t hesitate to hit us up if you have any question or anything 😊. I was exactly in your shoes one year ago when I set on building Forest, fed up with the existing gems and convinced that there could be something more
Benjamin Alijagić
Admin Interface as a Service? Interesting. Waiting for meteor support! :)
Sandro Munda
@benjam1n Exactly, AIaaS or AaaS even (our personal preference)! Meteor just bumped one spot on the « frameworks to support » list. Alpha version is currently being tested. We will send you an email as soon as the rough edges are dealt with.
Sandro Munda
By the way @ProductHunt - do you plan to try Forest for your next admin interface ? 😊
Rob Dyson
Forest is awesome. The setup could not be simpler, and customer support is stellar.
Sandro Munda
@rdyson Much appreciated Rob! Really happy to count Willing as one of our more enthusiastic –dare I say lively – users 😉
Roman Khafizianov
Hi guys! Email form doesn't work at pricing page: http://www.forestadmin.com/prici...
Sandro Munda
@requilence Wow, good eye Roman! 🕵 Thanks for pointing that out, we’re working on resolving asap 👍
Sandro Munda
@requilence Fixed :) Thanks for report!
Laurent
Great initiative and the UI looks amazing. Love it.
Sandro Munda
@laur3ntk Thanks Laurent, we really try to make the interface as intuitive and beautiful as possible. Glad you like it! And there’s more to come, we’ve got lots of ideas to make your admin shine :blush:
Able Joseph
We had a chance to test drive Forest and we simply love it's UI. Highly recommended!
Sandro Munda
@ablejoseph Awesome to see you here Able, and thanks for your comment. Coming from you guys and knowing your pixel perfectionism, it means a lot! 👌
Martin Saint-Macary
We've been lucky to be amongst the first testers at Vyte and Sandro has been really helpful. Forest has the potential to become the "no-brainer" admin interface for start-ups.
Sandro Munda
@saintmac Thanks for the kind words Martin! Happy to count Vyte among our most fervent testers, despite the bugs of the early days 😉
Jarrod Zimmerman
@seyz_ Beautiful UI! Can Forest administer external databases, or does all data need to be transferred to your servers? For example, my app currently uses a postgres database hosted on Heroku and I'd like to keep it there - can Forest manipulate that database?
Joe Benson
@jarrodzimm @seyz_ Pretty sure Sandro said the data never lives on their server – it's only a middle man.
Sandro Munda
@jarrodzimm @joe_legnd That’s exactly what we’re doing, thanks Joe for clearing that up for us 🙂 Our Live Demo itself is actually hosted on Heroku (you can have a look at the code if you fancy, it’s on our GitHub organisation’s page)
Jarrod Zimmerman
@seyz_ Fantastic! Do you have a list of integrations besides Intercom and Stripe? I see some additional companies on your homepage. Any plans for a Campaign Monitor integration?