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Hi HN ,

I’m Yuval, and for the past several years I’ve been building dev tools (some of you might know Amplication). Over that time, we’ve all seen the rise of AI copilots and agents. They are useful for individuals in the IDE, but limited when it comes to how teams actually ship software. I believe the next step is moving beyond copilots into *autonomous, continuous AI* that runs inside the SDLC itself.

That’s what we’re building with https://overcut.ai/. It connects directly to GitHub, Jira, and other tools, and runs workflows that handle things like:

- Reviewing PRs - Writing tests - Generating specs and docs - Triaging and resolving issues - Opening and updating PRs automatically

The difference is that instead of manually operated assistants or black box agents, you define the workflows (like CI/CD pipelines, but for AI agents). This makes it transparent and under your control.

We provide several ready-made playbooks, and you can also build your own for anything you can imagine on top of Git and tickets. There are built-in integrations to GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, Azure DevOps, and Jira.

Would love to hear your thoughts: what workflows would you want AI to take over, and what would hold you back from trusting something like this?

Thanks for reading

ok

Thanks for the feedback. Can you please share what did not work?

That looks very interesting. I will give it a try soon.

Prisma’s type-safe database access, powerful query API and migrations were a game-changer for Amplication building our platform and also the code we generate.

Would love to hear about ideas for plugins if you would like to share

Thanks for sharing! Please share any ideas of feedback

Agree with you on that! To my opinion the plugins are the most excising in this version. We are still working on the doc on how to create your own plugins

Hello, Yuval here, founder of Amplication. I’m very excited to share with you what the Amplication team is working on.

Amplication saves engineers from undifferentiated heavy lifting in application development, while helping organizations speed up delivery, and enforcing best practices and standardization across multiple teams and developers.

Amplication accelerates the development of backend applications and microservices with high-quality code generation, streamlining and automating development while solving issues that delay production readiness.

We built Amplication so developers like us could focus on coding the parts that matter rather than get distracted by repetitive tasks and boilerplate code.

Amplication is an open-source platform that lets you easily configure your backend services, by generating a human-readable and editable TypeScript Node.js codebase. The generated code includes everything you need to start writing your business logic.

Amplication continuously generates the code based on changes in the schema and configuration, then pushes the code to a GitHub repository to allow developers to continue off and edit it further based on their needs.

Today's launch of our v1.0 also incorporates a plugin architecture that enables developers to develop their own plugins to implement best practices, code conventions, custom integrations, and virtually anything in the generated code. Developers can use plugins created by Amplication’s core team, by our community, or create their own.

We already have several plugins on our Github plugins repo -https://github.com/amplication/plugins, including support for Kafka, MySQL PostgreSQL, Passport JWT, Passport Basic authentication, and the list is growing.

We can’t wait for you to experience Amplication, please share your thoughts.

Thanks for the feedback. As for the pricing, this was an initial draft that was published some time ago, and since then, some concepts have been changed. We are working on new pricing tiers, which will be published soon - anyway, the product will be free and open-source for individual developers and open-source projects.

About the users - we are building Amplication for pro backend developers. The code we generate is built based on best practices with well-known technology, so it does not require learning anything unique to Amplication.

Also, we provide several ways to customize the code without breaking the link to Amplication so you can add business logic and customize your server with minimal conflicts.

When you build your server with Amplication, you get the server with all your data models, DTOs, and more so it saves you a lot of writing.

We are working now on a new version that will allow you to build microservices with or without databases, with or without queues and message brokers. And on top of that, we will introduce a plugin system allowing teams to use their own best practices and standards for the generated code.

Would love to get your feedback or any suggestions or ideas you may have.

Amplication | REMOTE (US/EU Time zones) | Full Time | Developer Advocate/DevRel | http://www.amplication.com

About Amplication

Amplication is a developer-first company, building an open-source PaaS for cloud development. Amplication eliminates all the boilerplate, repetitive coding, infrastructure, and other repetitive tasks while keeping developers in full control of their code and apps. We are a small and dedicated team with funding from top-tier global VCs, focused on community and bottom-up adoption. Stack includes: TypeScript, Node.js, NestJS, Prisma, Docker, K8s, PostgreSQL, REST, GraphQL,

Developer Advocate/ DevRel

As Developer Advocate, you will be required to build awareness and adoption of Amplication, and assist our community members in building their next app with Amplication. This role could be a good fit if you are an experienced developer advocate with high technical and personal skills. You must have the engineering knowledge required to build demos, call APIs, and support other engineers in developing and customizing their apps with Amplication. In addition, you should like giving presentations, creating content, and building relationships with the community. You will be required to organize meetings and events, mentor developers, and write technical blogs and articles.

Work is remote (US or EU time zones)

To find out more and to apply: https://amplication.breezy.hr/p/0952f25d3270-developer-advoc...

Other vacancies

- Senior Cloud Engineer (DevOps) https://amplication.breezy.hr/p/56e13c5f22fb-senior-cloud-en... - Senior Full-Stack Engineer https://amplication.breezy.hr/p/77313a7acfa1-senior-full-sta... - Software Architect https://amplication.breezy.hr/p/a2ea8839581b-software-archit...

If you have any questions, feel free to contact us directly on our Discord server https://amplication.com/discord

We try to solve precisely that with Amplication, where we combine low-code with custom code. We generate a node.js and react application based on low-code configuration and push the code to your GitHub repo

https://github.com/amplication/amplication

No, the generated app includes client forms in react-admin

thank you

Thanks!

Hello, co-founder here: working with small businesses over the years, I saw a lot of them working and managing critical business processes using Excel files that start small but quickly grow out of proportion.

As a developer, the security, scalability, integrity, and durability implications made me feel nervous every single time. On many occasions, I was asked to build a full-scale app to replace the Excel file once it becomes too risky for the business to keep relying on a spreadsheet.

Like with every project, you have to go through several steps to produce a reliable service:

1. Design the data model based on the excel file 2. Building the infrastructure (database, ORM, web framework, packages, libraries, etc) 3. Adding authorization and authentication 4. Making sure everything is written with best practices, security, performance, and maintainability in mind.

That process was tedious and repetitive, even when using an existing boilerplate project.

Recast was designed exactly for these types of projects to save time and money and bring the development process up to speed in no time, eliminating the painful process. We generate a TypeScript Node.js source code that includes a GraphQL and REST API, authorization, authentication, identity management, logging utility, error handler, and a React admin UI - just by importing a data schema from excel.

The generated source code is automatically pushed to your GitHub repository or you can download the source code in a Zip file. You own your code.

From this point, you can use your favorite IDE to customize the code and add business logic. We also made it easy to modify your data models without overriding your custom code every time you re-generate your app, allowing your service to evolve with the business.

Would love to get your feedback and answer any question you have.

Amplication project on GitHub - https://github.com/amplication/amplication

noted! thanks

Glad to hear that! If You need support of any kind, join our discord channel and we will love to help

https://discord.gg/b8MrjU6

TypeORM is no longer maintained in a frequency that gave us enough confidence about the future.

See this discussion https://www.reddit.com/r/graphql/comments/duecak/comment/f77...

PostgreSQL

You can watch this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKGeLXoPr94

dgb23, I will do my best to answer all your questions... I hope the experience this time will be better than the previous ones:

what drives the schema? We provide you with an intuitive UI to create the schema. Later down the road, we plan to add a CLI for easier integration with scripts and other tools.

Can I use websockets with this? Since we provide you with a generated Node.js source code you can build on top of it with whatever you want and expand your application with any missing capabilities. Websocket is also on our list, but to be honest the list is long. We are looking forward to getting more contributors to be able to expedite the releases.

What problems does it solve that others don't? We are focusing on saving time for Node.js developers and provide them with a set of tools for all the repetitive tasks they usually face.

Why does a simple CRUD application need GraphQL integration? We initially generate the app with CRUD operations (both with REST and GraphQL). The idea is that developers will keep adding on top of that all the more complex APIs and operations relevant to their business domain - Currently with code, and soon with more tools to expedite some of the boilerplate.

Why are there emojis everywhere? We love emojis, more precisely we love beautiful UI. Once the CLI is out you will be able to avoid the emojis :-)

Why does it feel like their intentions are unclear? I would love to provide details on every question you may have about our intentions. Generally speaking, we hope in the future to create a sustainable business around the open-source project, while keeping the service free for 99% of the users. The project is open-source so anyone can host a server locally and get all the benefits of Amplication with no string attached.

redwoodjs aims to provide a framework for a serverless architecture with jamstack - It looks amazing. Amplication aims to provide an easier and continuous development experience with Node.js, to allow node.JS developers to focus on their business domain instead of design and boilerplate. Amplication generates a human-readable source code to allow the developers the freedom to choose how to use their apps and how to deploy it - Whether because of business policies and architecture, privacy and security concerns, or just personal preferences.

We want to give the developers to choose whether to use the hosted solution or take the app and the source code and host anywhere else. We understand developers need the freedom to choose

Thanks! We are focusing on the backend but try to provide the minimal staring point for front end clients. We will consider adding more clients later down the road.

Thanks

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thanks!

Prisma is awesome. We initially tried TypeOrm and Sequilize and quickly move to Prisma for various reasons. I may post a blog post about this journey soon

Great! Please share your feedback once you've tried it!