8base Reviews & Product Details

8base provides a simple platform to create an application back-end quickly without requiring a heavy investment in infrastructure, complex skillsets, or API construction. API creation is just as simple to develop and deploy.

Complete documentation for the platform is not immediately easily accessible by developers. To acquire some documentation, we had to open a support ticket and wait.

New mobile application development with a low-maintenance back-end. Back-end has not required any special skills. Javascript developers are able to be productive very quickly.

Super easy backend solution. I like the GUI for managing the DB.

Well, for the frontend; it does the eaisy things easier but the hard things harder Backend: would be nice to have some further development such as integration with zapier and such. Feels a bit dead in terms of updates.

It makes it so that I dont have to build and manage a DB with for example Prisma (which is also really good)

- GUI database managment - Branching environments - Built-in API Explorer

- Migration generation/commiting - Build times - The decision to remove one-to one relations (Guys, it's a DB management tool, 1-to-1 is one of the core relation types that should be always available).

It saves me the hassle of creating my own GraphQL backend and managing it in addition to my frontend projects. It also helps me with type definitions and syncing data with my team.

8base does its job in terms of being a good BAAS. You can set up your DB schema & business logic fast and troubleless. Roles and permissions management is also done well. With their platform, it's easy to manage any backend-related task. I'd also like to appreciate the fact that you can self host the product when your product needs it. Whenever we would face an issue, 8base engineers were quick to help us.

8base is lambda based, which brings lambda-related issues. It won't be easy to handle a huge load, even though it is possible with extra effort. Out-of-the-box logs are tough to work with, but self-hosted solution helps (AWS cloudwatch) They have their own gql transform engine which sometimes may be of an issue and without gql-to-sql transparency it can be tough to optimize certain requests.

It allowed us to define a data model, deploy our own custom backend logic and utilize GQL for client. 8base allows frontend developers to experience the fullstack experience with little to no trouble.

1) a truly unique platform, which has no analogues at the moment 2) convenient development tools 3) technical support that is ready to help - up to direct contact with the developers of the platform

1) sometimes (quite often, actually) there are various bugs during deployments, due to which the work can stop before they are fixed - the platform is definitely not completely stable 2) even if deployments are made without errors, they take a VERY long time - sometimes it can take up to 20 minutes 3) the absence of a public changelog - the development team working with the platform may not be aware of breaking changes at all, if any 4) closed source code - perhaps 8base would be more suitable for the model that, for example, Hasura uses 5) not very good documentation, which practically does not reflect real cases of using the platform - a lot of knowledge about it (including knowledge about various "pitfalls") is kept in the minds of developers, and is obtained through the experience of using the platform, and not from the docs

1) no need to think about project infrastructure - the platform provides a convenient and ready-to-use backend 2) no need to think about the organization of the database due to a fairly convenient visual representation that hides implementation details (for example, relationships), and migrations 3) the platform also provides a convenient way to manage user permissions

We love the ability to quickly create functions that exist behind a GraphQL API, without needing to set up the additional infrastructure or security. The ability to easily modify and change data structures within the data storage system is a game changer, as it allows for great amounts of flexibility as you explore customer needs. Overall, the platform has sped up development through to deployment and we are able to implement changes or enhancements much quicker. The more our development team uses 8Base, the more positive feedback we receive. 8Base is preferred over even comparable AWS tools!

Overall, there truly isn't much to be critical of. If we had to critique, we would like to see a way to easily tack on a monitoring system to centralize our logging system with the rest of our tools.

8base is allowing us to develop without having to set up the infrastructure that goes into building a net new product, including but not limited to, our deployment pipelines and the infrastructure as code. Outside of this, it is simply an easier platform for our junior devs to pick up quickly and start running with. As a high-growth startup, speed to market is key - 8Base is helping solve this business challenge.

Solution Advisors foster confidence that 8base is sincerely invested in customer success. Native toolset is vastly extensible via JAVA & TypeScript.

Slack connectivity to internal resources is touted as value added but falls short of potential due to profuctory replies and lack of follow up.

Rapid development. Ease of standing up platform. Consolidated back end services. All this means we're more profitable.

When my co-founder and I started our SaaS company, we wanted to avoid hiring an IT staff to build and maintain our SaaS product. With 8base, we were able to have them develop our product using their low code platform and then had them become our ongoing maintenance and enhancement provider.

We were one of 8base's initial customers and sometimes had to go through "growing pains" together. Most of the pain was focused on process immaturity that improved over time.

The biggest problem that 8base solved for us was taking the business vision we had in our heads and making it a SaaS reality. The main benefit was a robust, feature-rich SaaS platform delivered at an outstanding value.

The UI is very good. They have taken the time to understand developer needs and built the tools that make the developer's job a lot easier and allow the developer to focus on design and functionality instead of non-value-add technical work.

I'm eager to see the front-end tools that they have promised. The Graph QL needs a little bit of work to enable nested filters and updates. While you can do complex filtering, it happens on the client-side, which is less than ideal.

I'm using 8base to do rapid prototyping and build software with non-technical founders. The rapid prototyping and ability to implement software that can scale without having to re-platform the product are making a huge difference.

The thing I like the most is the GraphQL API

The way we have to handle commits, deployments and schemas updates. And the documentation.

It removes the necessity of having to create a API from scratch.

You get automatically created queries and mutations and resolvers are very easy to adapt to special needs

It restricts a bit the capacity with the DB I think at firtst, it would be nice to have ability to do SQL queries

helping people host concerts in their places and all the logistics involved

Database feature set is great - managing tables and relations is very easy. Cloud functions work nicely and documentation is pretty good. As a newer platform its doing well to try and get feature parity with some bigger players whilst adding its own touch.

Pricing model has room for improvement, direct access to the DB would be a great addition and the Front End builder has a long way to go before it can match other players in the Low Code builder scene. More external integrations on both the back and front end would be great.

Easy access to a back end platform without the overheads of managing the infra. A lower effort authentication system that allows the use of external ID providers.

The most interesting functionality for 8base is the queries and mutations it creates when a table schema is created, which makes time efficient. Also the ability to use the UI to make changes in the tables.

There is some stuff that can be improved as for example, the queries that can be used in the tables are quiet limited and very slow sometimes for bulk operations. Another thing that does not make a lot of sense is that relations between tables are created in weird ways that sometimes make it impossible to do certain mutations. Another thing is that the changes made on the tables directly are soft, they are not really 100% reflected on the database and that creates a mix of data that does not make sense at all. Also documentation is tremendously outdated.

Saving time on the creation of the schemas and queries to make operations with the data inside a database