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Brandon Foo

Paragon Connect - Build embedded, native SaaS integrations in minutes

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Paragon Connect allows developers to embed user-facing SaaS integrations into their product in minutes. Setup the Paragon SDK once and instantly integrate your product with popular SaaS apps like Salesforce, HubSpot, Slack, JIRA, and more.

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Brandon Foo
Maker
Hey Product Hunt! 👋 We created Paragon Connect with the vision of making it easy to integrate your product with other SaaS apps in minutes instead of months ("Plaid for SaaS apps") Today, the average company uses over 100 different cloud apps. If you’re a B2B software company, your customers have probably asked “do you integrate with Salesforce / Slack / HubSpot / JIRA / etc.?” But integrations get backlogged b/c building in-house is a HUGE engineering lift. Learning the nuances of each vendor’s API and authentication methods, managing user tokens, etc. can take months of engineering per integration. Here's how Paragon helps you ship SaaS integrations in minutes: ⚡️ Embed Paragon’s SDK in your app with a few lines of code and instantly ‘switch on’ integrations with any of our supported app providers. 👩🏻‍💻 Paragon provides ready-made UI for your customers to connect their SaaS apps and manage their integration settings. 🛠 Define integration logic with Paragon’s visual workflow editor, or use Paragon’s REST API to access the app provider’s API directly. 🔐 Paragon provides fully managed authentication, so you don’t need to worry about different authentications strategies for each provider. Starting today, you can sign up for a free 14-day trial of Connect here. As thanks to the Product Hunt community, we're offering a PH-exclusive discount of 35% off your first year if you upgrade in April with the code PHPARAGON Thanks for joining our launch, and looking forward to your feedback / questions in the comments!
Matthew Reid
@foolywk This is great, I'll definitely be checking it out. Some feedback, it would be nice if the demo video started by showing the end result. It wasn't clear from the beginning that you were actually building a customer-facing Slack integration (which is very cool btw).
Brandon Foo
Maker
@matthew_reid1 Thanks for the feedback, I agree that could help make it more clear - we'll try that for the next video!
Ishmael Samuel
Maker
Super excited to show everyone what our team's been working on! Over the last year, we've had tens of millions of automations run on Paragon with use cases we would've never dreamt of. With Paragon Connect, our mission is to make it 100x easier to integrate these workflows natively in your apps without spending countless hours setting it up. Let us know what you think 🚀
Shahan Khan
Incredible! Love what you're doing, implementing integrations faster and more easily is 👌🏾
Brandon Foo
Maker
Thank you @shahan312! 💌
Jolena Ma
Looks so useful (+ super clean UX)! Would love to hear differences/similarities with retool?
Ethan Lee
Maker
@jo_m Thanks! Paragon is specific to the integrations side of a product, so it can help offload the (not fun) engineering work associated with that: adding configuration UI for each integration, access token management, stitching third-party APIs together, managing webhooks, etc. We simplify that by hosting a configuration modal for your integrations and providing a low-code workflow editor to deal with third-party logic instead 🙂 I see Retool as addressing a more generic set of problems building internal tools, particularly around common CRUD scaffolding work. The UI that Paragon hosts for your end users is a bit like Retool's "Auth Login" feature. We include some extra stuff, like preconfigured picklists for each integration (e.g., Channels or Users for Slack) and tying users' integration state with your app's existing auth sessions. But to my knowledge Retool can't run anything in response to integration-driven events, like "when someone updates a new record in my user's Salesforce account, sync that into our database." That's where our workflow editor would come in! I can actually see Paragon fitting in really nicely to some Retool apps to accomplish what its Auth Login cannot (and for supporting integrations that Retool doesn't have)! You can embed the Paragon Connect portal just about anywhere 😄
Jolena Ma
@thatethanlee wow super cool, thanks for responding so thoroughly! very exciting to think of all the possibilities of paragon + retool and can't wait to take it for a spin. :)
Amit Kothari
We've already started integrating this into https://tallyfy.com and really looking forward to doing tons more in future.
Brandon Foo
Maker
Thanks @amit_kothari1! 🙏🏼
Andrew Thompson
Awesome! Can’t wait to try it out! This looks amazing.
Osa Gaius
This is dope! Excited to try it. Congrats @brandon_foo and the Paragon team.
Brandon Foo
Maker
@osa_gaius Thank you Osa! 🙏🏼
Dillon Zhang Forrest
Big fan! I need this in my life right now! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Trevor Sookraj
This will save months for early-stage teams, great idea & product! Building integrations has never been easier 😎
Stan Chang
Congrats on the launch @foolywk! We are happy customers of Paragon - it's saved us countless hours of dev time to connect our app with Salesforce.
Amit Kothari
@foolywk @stan_chang1 we're starting with SFDC too. Is your integration 2-way - push and pull?
Oleg Zaremba
Using it for Slack. Scoped, integrated and shipped under 4 weeks. Cool stuff!
Brandon Foo
Maker
Thanks @oleg_zaremba! Super excited to support you and the Axdraft team!
Jeremy W. Greenfield
Congratulations to the Paragon Team!! Proud to call you guys my friends
Brandon Foo
Maker
Thanks @greeeeenfield! We're grateful to work with you guys and the Popl team!
Abraham Parangi
Very cool product! We've had this exact problem- excited to see a focused solution
Brandon Foo
Maker
Thanks @abrahamparangi! Excited to see how we can help!
Jason Alvarez-Cohen 🚀
We use Paragon Connect @ Popl and it's amazing! Great job to Brandon, Ish and the team for making an incredible product that just works 🙌
Brandon Foo
Maker
Thanks @jasonalco! Super excited to support you the Popl team!
Ishmael Samuel
Maker
@jasonalco Loving with the Popl team is doing! Keep crushing homie
Hadar Dor
An incredible product by one of my favorite founders :) Great work, Brandon!
Brandon Foo
Maker
Thanks @haddartha! 🙏🏼
Sydney Liu
What a game changer - absolutely fantastic work guys. I need this in my life!
Brandon Foo
Maker
Thank you @sydney_liu_sl! ❤️
Evan J. Zimmerman
This is amazing!
Ishmael Samuel
Maker
@ejzim Thanks for all your support Evan! We're proud to be part of the Jovono family
Evan J. Zimmerman
@ishthedestroyer With this, customers can stop yelling at companies for not having integrations and engineers can stop yelling at their bosses for making them spend time on building integrations. It's a win for everyone!
Mathew Pregasen
Paragon is incredible been a huge fan of the team
Adam
Love this! Nice work @foolywk
Otávio Dalarossa
Awesome concept, going to try this out right now!!
Ishmael Samuel
Maker
@dalarossa Thanks Otavio!