Recommend Superblocks for building internal apps and saving engineering time and resources!
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We decided to move all our internal apps to Superblocks almost two years ago. It's helped us replace a few different platform layer tools (Google Cloud Scheduler, App Engine, Mode, Retool) and enabled us to build much faster within our team, without having to think about maintaining infrastructure. Another big thing for us was that we have engineers writing in Python (more data heavy stuff), and engineers writing Javascript/Typescript. Now everything can live in one place based on business needs.
It's an incredible tool for building internal tools for your company and product. Highly recommend!
Pros
- Easy to use User Interface builder for building internal apps
- Scheduled Jobs and Workflow builder in multiple languages
- API builder for support your User Interface for your internal apps
Cons
- More flexibility on UI component designs
Most Important Features
- UI builder – we have multiple micro-apps our team uses to operate our business
- Scheduled Jobs – we've automated a lot of our work using jobs from generating reports all the way to taking images from space from NASA and posting it to our Slack
- Workflows – we've abstracted a lot of our business logic into workflows so they can be used across different apps
Return on Investment
- We've saved thousands of developer hours that would have otherwise spent on maintaining infrastructure
Alternatives Considered
Retool, Google Cloud Functions and Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling
