[bluetidepro]

This looks like a pretty neat web app. Nice UI and promo video, also. I think the core audience for this, is people who are somehow locked in using MySQL, though. For someone starting out, it seems like a bad idea to use this because it is sort of encouraging bad habits, right?

For example if you making a new sandwich, why would you make a device that takes the peanut butter from the jar, puts it in a bigger jar, then you use a knife to get the peanut butter from the bigger jar to put on your PB&J? It just seems like a bad middle man, if you are starting a new project.

Maybe I'm wrong, but again, it looks neat for people maybe in old companies where they have no choice but I just hope this doesn't encourage people to start with MySQL just for this app or with a purpose to only turn it into an API.

Or maybe another application of this is turning an existing blog with WordPress (MySQL) into an API? Not sure...

[kevinpfab]

We definitely built the product with existing applications (without an API) in mind. We found it much more difficult to add an API after-the-fact than if you design for one in the beginning. In fact, the idea came to us after attempting to build an API for a 10 year old PHP application at Rackspace.