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Show HN: SandFaux – Your sandbox and our faux data

18 points by garysahota93 2y ago

After countless (TRULY COUNTLESS) hours of manually seeding and resetting Salesforce sandboxes for our sales demos and integration testing, we couldn’t take it anymore. SandFaux started as an internal tool for this tedious process, but after a few customers asked for access, we decided to productize it & make it publicly available for anyone to use! This was really just the starting point for our internal tool. We want to also add: * Text Prompting for Scenarios * Custom Fields * Custom Configurations * Dynamic Data * More Integrations https://sandfaux.com https://sandfaux.com

kraftman 2y ago
How is this pronounced?
- wild_egg 2y ago
  This seemed an odd question until I noticed the logo. Now my brain hurts.
  - kraftman 2y ago
    yeah especially with 'Your Sandbox + Our Faux Data = <fox emoji>'
  - garysahota93 2y ago
    Haha!! This was meant to be a provactive conversation. It's pronounced "Sand-Fox". But the genesis of this Sandbox + Fake data (Faux). But given Fox rhymes with Box, we thought we'd be cheeky about it lol
    - Mesmoria 2y ago
      That's a little confusing because faux is pronounced fo or foe.
JTyQZSnP3cQGa8B 2y ago
You should explain what a "salesforce sandbox" is, because it’s not obvious at all. I use salesforce at work because I have to, but I have never seen a sandbox inside.
- garysahota93 2y ago
  It's a great question! A sandbox is a testing environment that isolates untested changes & experimentations from the production environments. Chances are if you're using Salesforce for work, it's the "production" instance that is meant for prime-time. There is probably some admin/developer/IT person in your company that has access to creating sandboxes to test changes before they push to everyone else. fwiw typically this is used by larger companies & isn't as useful for small startups.
dannyphantom 2y ago
Wow, this is actually really cool and absolutely something I find value in. The integration was smooth and data generation was quick. Previously used Mockaroo but that shoots out an excel sheet which just adds additional steps to getting the data into Salesforce whereas this was seamless. Congrats on shipping and thanks for sharing it!

18 points by garysahota93 2y ago

kraftman 2y ago

How is this pronounced?

wild_egg 2y ago
This seemed an odd question until I noticed the logo. Now my brain hurts.
- kraftman 2y ago
  yeah especially with 'Your Sandbox + Our Faux Data = <fox emoji>'
- garysahota93 2y ago
  Haha!! This was meant to be a provactive conversation. It's pronounced "Sand-Fox". But the genesis of this Sandbox + Fake data (Faux). But given Fox rhymes with Box, we thought we'd be cheeky about it lol
  - Mesmoria 2y ago
    That's a little confusing because faux is pronounced fo or foe.

JTyQZSnP3cQGa8B 2y ago

You should explain what a "salesforce sandbox" is, because it’s not obvious at all. I use salesforce at work because I have to, but I have never seen a sandbox inside.

garysahota93 2y ago
It's a great question! A sandbox is a testing environment that isolates untested changes & experimentations from the production environments. Chances are if you're using Salesforce for work, it's the "production" instance that is meant for prime-time. There is probably some admin/developer/IT person in your company that has access to creating sandboxes to test changes before they push to everyone else. fwiw typically this is used by larger companies & isn't as useful for small startups.

dannyphantom 2y ago

Wow, this is actually really cool and absolutely something I find value in. The integration was smooth and data generation was quick. Previously used Mockaroo but that shoots out an excel sheet which just adds additional steps to getting the data into Salesforce whereas this was seamless. Congrats on shipping and thanks for sharing it!