August 2022 Summaries

In the next decade, every company will become a software company, leading to an increased demand for custom internal software development. Superblocks offers a programmable set of building blocks for developers to create mission-critical custom internal apps, workflows, and scheduled jobs at a fraction of the time and cost. It has quickly become the internal tooling backbone for hundreds of companies, including multibillion-dollar startups like Motive, Payhawk, Clearco, Papaya Global, and Alchemy. Superblocks enables developers to connect any database or REST, GraphQL, and gRPC API handling authentication, breaking down data silos when building apps, workflows, and scheduled jobs. The platform offers enterprise-grade security and can be consumed as a fully managed cloud service or using the unique hybrid model with an open source self-hosted agent. Superblocks is on a mission to free up developer time by bringing together every building block a developer needs to build internal software into a single programmable platform, backed by $37 million in funding.

On Thursday, Superblocks launched on Hacker News and quickly reached the front page within an hour, eventually reaching the #1 spot. The engagement from the community drove thousands of developers to www.superblocks.com and provided valuable feedback that will inform the direction of the company moving forward. Some key points from the feedback include: adding more programming languages and building blocks; providing more templates for accelerated tooling development; addressing concerns about vendor lock-in by enabling exporting of app definitions as code; and working on ways to reuse components and import custom components. Superblocks is grateful for the community's support and encourages continued feedback.