Brandon Foo

Paragon - Low-code visual builder for API workflows

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Paragon allows anyone to visually build API workflows. Paragon is a low-code platform that provides building blocks like triggers, database queries, and integrations that you drag and drop to create production-ready workflows - all in just minutes.

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Brandon Foo
Hey Product Hunt! 👋 We created Paragon with the vision of making it easier for everyone to build software - starting with API logic. Today every company is a software company, but less than 1% of people are developers. Our goal is to abstract away as much of the complexity and repetitive work of building APIs, so you can just focus on your core business logic. Paragon provides building blocks like triggers, database queries, and API integrations that you can drag and drop to visually create API workflows. You can deploy workflows in one click and visualize the flow of data through every workflow execution for easy debugging. Here's a highlight of some use cases customers have built on Paragon: 💬Find inactive users in database, send them reactivation messages 💸Generate and send Stripe invoices based on customer activity 📑Parse users' document uploads via OCR, save results to database 📆Sync users' Google Calendar events to display in your app Thank you so much and looking forward to your feedback / questions / discussion!
Alex Kern
Paragon is a powerful and elegant in-browser IDE for designing backend API workflows. I've been using it to enable rapid prototyping of new features for both business and personal use. It's already replaced most other automation tools for my go-to toolchain! Some features I love: - The editor doesn't require that I download/install anything to get up and running - For parallel data processing, Paragon can fan-out dynamically and handles the coordination for you - Native integrations with popular APIs (Twilio, SendGrid) - I can dive down into JavaScript whenever I need to implement custom logic Congrats on the launch @foolywk @ishthedestroyer! 🚀
Dmytro Lazarchuk
I think it's a great product. Do you have the list of supported APIs? I sent the request for subscription! Wish you a good luck with your service.
Brandon Foo
@esli_kto_to thanks Dmytro! Currently, Paragon provides native integration with Postgres, MySQL, Twilio, Sendgrid, and we're Firebase and Google Sheets this week. Paragon also supports integrating with any HTTP API, so you can connect with any service as long as they have an API, even if we don't have a native integration with them yet :)
Ishmael Samuel
@esli_kto_to If there's any integrations that you want that come to mind, please let us know! We're shipping out a few every week.
Ashish Sharma
The product looks promising.
Shahan Khan
Really excited to try this for some workflows soon!
Hon Hoang
After using polymail for some time, can't wait to see what Brandon Foo does with Paragon.
shiree francisis
Amazing !
Oscar Lafarga
Awesome product bringing down the barrier to entry for using powerful software in intuitive new ways. Whether you're a seasoned developer or a bootstrapping entrepreneur, this team is working hard to make your job as easy as possible!
fahd
This is really dope! People spend so much time building these custom workflows inside every company. Gives more leverage to marketing and sales teams without having to build out their own engineering team.
Alex Zhou
Really great product that has allowed us to automate our backend without needing to onboard additional developers! It's been great to see how much time Paragon has saved us.
Brandon Foo
@alex_zhou4 Thanks, Alex! Pleasure working with you :)
Jiake Liu
Amazing team! Can’t wait to use the product
Sydney Liu
Woohooo!! Congrats on the launch!!! Epic team, epic product, and super useful for all companies
Dillon Zhang Forrest
I've used Paragon for work and it's a great experience. The team is top notch and their support is great. Highly recommend!
Brandon Foo
@dillonforrest1 appreciate the support, Dillon! 🙃
Tom Medema
Excited for this, looks promising! On a side note, I think the addition of social proof high up on your landing page (annotated here https://app.usebubbles.com/67ee3...) should help you get more emails. Best of luck!
Brandon Foo
@tom4 thanks for the feedback, Tom! Definitely agree with you on that - will see what we can do!
Tim Yu
Killer team, and Paragon is super powerful! Can't wait to see where this goes!
Kai Faust
I've been using Paragon for 2 weeks, and it's a great product. It's perfect for people who are already apt at setting up automated workflows, but this makes it easier and faster.
Brandon Foo
@kaifaust thanks Kai! 🙏🏼
Evan J. Zimmerman
Really cool product by a phenomenal team. Really saves time for technical staff. It lets nontechnical people do some self-help but can also be helpful for technical people who just don’t want to bother reinventing the wheel for some basic tasks.
matthias
Your tools seems amazing ! Good luck on the launch, can you describe a bit more the difference between your tool and something like Zapier ?
Ethan Lee
@matthias_riverti Hey! Thanks for the kind words. While Zapier definitely paved the way in this space for personal use cases, Paragon is trying to enable folks to build far more powerful workflows that scale to the point where people can build large pieces of their products on top of our platform. This was in mind from the very beginning, and you can see that in everything from the high-performing parallelism of our fanout steps to the security isolation of any module written by a service provider like Twilio or Firebase. Another example is that we provide convenient escape hatches for developers to add custom functions whenever you find that something can be done right with a bit of your own logic. I'm confident that as we add more third-party integrations and features, you'll find Paragon far more scalable and flexible than other tools 🙂(I'm definitely finding this to be the case for my own use!) Would love to hear what you think if you give it a shot!
Andrew Thompson
Amazing guys! Can't wait to try it out :)
Jessica Willison
As a non-technical tasked with figuring out tech far too often, anything that makes the process more intuitive and simplified has my vote! Congrats Brandon & team - keep up the great work!