[toomuchtodo]

Congrats on the launch! What would you say differentiates you from competitors in the space, such as Integromat, Tray, n8n, and Zapier?

Also, if I may offer you a piece of advice based on my experience at an org offering a similar product: make it frictionless to bring in/import snippets/templates for Cloud Functions (think code snippet search function you'd have on your workstation as a dev). Your users are likely to be non-technical, and the more hand holding you can perform, the better.

Wishing you much success, I love this sort of tooling!

[fooly_wk]

Thank you and great question! Zapier is great for simple tasks like sending data from one app to another, but isn't well designed for more complex operations like handling large arrays of data, or writing custom code. More broadly, Zapier and other tools like Tray and Integromat are more focused on RPA, which typically means automating internal business processes.

Our focus is specifically on developers and product teams, and on helping build integrations between their core product and 3rd party services. Paragon is designed to handle use cases like building custom endpoints, fanning out arrays, and writing custom cloud functions - we even expose access to npm, so developers can do some pretty heavy lifting if they need to.

I love your suggestion to allow importing cloud functions. One of our goals is to eventually allow you to sync functions directly from a Github rep - another example of how we aim to cater more to developers.

[aeden]

> but isn't well designed for more complex operations like handling large arrays of data, or writing custom code.

Even though they support writing Python and/or Javascript code in zaps? How is Paragon better at supporting writing custom code?