Emergent One
Infrastructure
api generation
SHOW HN2012
How HN took it
5 positive, 4 neutral or asking, 3 mixed, 10 critical, out of 22 comments about the project. Thread score -0.23.
Idea: 2 for, 6 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 2 againstDocs: 0 for, 2 againstPerformance: 2 for, 0 againstDesign: 1 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Useful for generating APIs for legacy sites and open source installs.
From 3 comments
Love this, sorry about the hate brigade from HN. Anecdotally, it seems to be getting worse lately... To start, at Zapier, we and our customers have a huge need for something like…
bryanh on HNNice piece of software, I used the trial for a bit and was able to get an API up faster than I could program out one myself. As a consultant I have a few clients with rather bad…
overshard on HNThis should serve as a loosely coupled, managed API server which acts as a load balancer to a larger extent, if it can intelligently cache requests and act like memcached for API…
pajju on HN
Nice UI and well presented.
From 2 comments
This looks like a pretty neat web app. Nice UI and promo video, also. I think the core audience for this, is people who are somehow locked in using MySQL, though. For someone…
bluetidepro on HNWell-presented, nice work. See also: http://apify.heroku.com/
prezjordan on HN
Objections
Sharing database credentials with a hosted service is a security concern.
From 3 comments
Wait, tell me again why I should trust you with database credentials? Whitelist you in my infrastructure? Allow you to define an entry point to my app? I would honestly rather…
josegonzalez on HNNice application but I think it would be something like library because it doesn't seem a good idea that sharing database credentials to a startup.
buremba on HNFor a n00b like me this looks interesting. Wouldn't mind taking a test drive to see if it's something that could work long term. I agree with @josegonzalez. Seems like a leap of…
pla3rhat3r on HN
Tied to database rather than application logic.
From 2 comments
Maybe you should re-title this "Generate REST APIs for Existing Databases". IMO, database != application. I opened this in anticipation of something that would generate REST APIs…
infinii on HNA couple of philosophical objections: 1. There is a real benefit to building an API into the core of your app - it forces the kind of loose coupling that will improve your entire…
andybak on HN
Encourages bad habits and is unneeded for new projects.
From 2 comments
This looks like a pretty neat web app. Nice UI and promo video, also. I think the core audience for this, is people who are somehow locked in using MySQL, though. For someone…
bluetidepro on HNAnother one!? How hard is it to write a few lines of Sinatra, Express, Flask ... code, then deploy with Heroku? This is getting ridicilous. Are programmers becoming so dumb they…
account_taken on HN
Requests
Add MongoDB support.
From 1 comment
Would love to see mongodb support.
xoail on HN
Offer a free way to try before buying.
From 1 comment
I can see the pros and cons of the idea. Pros 1. Expose your data through an API without writing much (any ?) code. 2. Time saving. 3. Since the API itself is fed by the…
cinbun8 on HN
Automatic client language bindings.
From 2 comments
A couple of philosophical objections: 1. There is a real benefit to building an API into the core of your app - it forces the kind of loose coupling that will improve your entire…
andybak on HNI'm most excited about the idea of automatic Client Bindings. I've been thinking about how cool it would be if you could dynamically generate a Ruby gem for your REST API, as…
nathan_f77 on HN
Questions
Why should users trust the service with database credentials?
From 1 comment
Wait, tell me again why I should trust you with database credentials? Whitelist you in my infrastructure? Allow you to define an entry point to my app? I would honestly rather…
josegonzalez on HN
How is this different from apigee?
From 1 comment
How is this different from apigee?
pajju on HN
Alternatives named
Apify, Yahoo YQL, Phreeze, minuteproject, Swagger/grape-swagger.
From 5 comments
Well-presented, nice work. See also: http://apify.heroku.com/
prezjordan on HNAlso http://developer.yahoo.com/rss/ and http://developer.yahoo.com/yql/ to some extend.
klapinat0r on HNAnother app that generates REST code for you (in PHP) as well as a simple web interface is http://phreeze.com/
jakejake on HNhttp://minuteproject.wikispaces.com/REST
based2 on HNI'm most excited about the idea of automatic Client Bindings. I've been thinking about how cool it would be if you could dynamically generate a Ruby gem for your REST API, as…
nathan_f77 on HN