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i have probably seen 10 products in this space come and go in way less time than one would think both proprietary and open source. proprietary are either shut d
by jFriedensreich 3y ago
i have probably seen 10 products in this space come and go in way less time than one would think both proprietary and open source. proprietary are either shut down or acquired and made unusable by price explosion or crippling of features. the open source ones always turn stale way before even half of that ambitious integration list has a checkmark, which makes these kind of a joke. relying on something like this seems to never be worth it: the painful parts are usually auth flows and maybe api paging but anything that could cause api mismatch or store data on third party servers is a recipe for disaster. in addition no integration platform i saw that was doing more than hand through the base api surface directly would cover every detail and have quite the level of feature support focus that was relevant to the application. i saw more than once that a company had to add their own app and integration just to handle unsupported cases because they could not afford a complete rewrite to add a critical feature in a timely manner.
- zicon35 3y agoHi! Appreciate the comment and understand the skepticism here. Well business/startups are tough are in general & more die than survive so you're probably right on those stats. Would love to know more about your experience specifically though? Which products did you try? What was the use-case you had that made you add your own integration? I'd love to chat more on this if you'd be up for it. :)