Show HN: Turn SQL, Node, Python scripts into safe, shareable internal tools

https://www.airplane.dev/

by raviparikh • 5 years ago

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raviparikh3• 5 years ago

Hey folks! We're Ravi and Josh, co-founders of Airplane (https://www.airplane.dev/).

Airplane is a developer platform for quickly building internal tools. Airplane lets you turn Python/JS/shell scripts, SQL queries, REST endpoints and more into lightweight internal apps that your support, operations, and other teams can use. Today, we provide UIs, notifications, permissions, approvals, audit logs, and more out of the box so that engineers only need to implement the backend logic of an operation. In the future, we'll support increasingly more complicated workflows and UIs.

Josh and I built Airplane due to our experiences at our previous companies. I previously co-founded Heap (YC W13) and Josh was CTO at Benchling (YC S12). During my time at Heap, we often had people on the professional services, success, etc. teams escalating issues to solutions engineers or infra engineers, who would then run one-off scripts to solve issues. This process was error-prone, interrupt-heavy, and annoying for everyone involved.

At Benchling, Josh built an internal system that solved part of these problems and was some of the initial inspiration for Airplane.

We would love to hear your feedback on Airplane! It's free to sign up and start using.

mritchie712• 5 years ago

Solid demo on the landing page. Quickly and clearly shows what the app actually does instead of over produced bullshit.

How are you guys getting your first users?

raviparikh3• 5 years ago

Thanks! So far we've gotten some early users just through other startups that we know engineers at. Hopefully this HN post drives a few more folks to try it out :) After that we'll likely focus on word of mouth from our existing users (which has already started to happen a bit), blog posts to drive awareness, and probably some amount of ads (e.g. Google Adwords, ads in relevant developer-focused newsletters).

st0le• 5 years ago

Does a Task mean a Task Config or Task Run/Execution?

Does the free-tier come with an "executions" limit?

raviparikh3• 5 years ago

A Task refers to a Task Config. There are no limits on executions (which we call "Runs") on the free tier!

slowmotarget• 5 years ago

I really dig the product and demo. Nevertheless, I feel there are crucial points missing in your landing page: - Where is the code hosted? - Where is it executed? - Are my tasks versioned in a GIT repo? - How do you manage secrets?

Show HN: Turn SQL, Node, Python scripts into safe, shareable internal tools

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