Our friends at Xano have just launched on Product Hunt. Their no-code backend is easy to use and seamlessly integrates with your Thunkable projects through the Web API component.
What is Xano
Xano is the fastest way to build a scalable backend for your App using No Code. Each Xano account comes with a scalable server, a flexible database, and a No Code API builder that can transform, filter, and integrate with data from anywhere.
A few reasons why you’ll love Xano:
Store data on a powerful Database with No Record Limits
Build APIs with simple to complex business logic using No Code.
Integrate and connect to any platform or Front-end
Scale to support millions of users without worry.
Launch without worry on Xano’s secure infrastructure
100+ Tutorial videos, robust documentation, and a vibrant community
Check it out and, if you like it, give it an upvote!
I’m Prakash and I’m the head of product for Xano. Happy to answer any questions here.
@versatile muneer mentioned you can easily use the API to connect and display data from Xano in Thunkable. We plan on doing a small workshop session showing how easy it is to connect the two products so you can leverage the amazing power of Thunkable on the front-end and our scalable No Code Backend
I was interested in the connectivity, so the easiest is to read from the database because you do not need to configure the API to use parameters which would be an added learning experience in Xano side.
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I added Add user button. Try and let me know your comments.
What would be really useful to have is an example of how I could let users sign in to Xano and then based on their individual accounts edit a segment of a spreadsheet. Like the integration with Firebase now for Thunkable. Firebase would work perfectly for me with Thunkable, but I really don’t like Firebase for other reasons, such as the inability to cap usage. If I could use Xano like Firebase and have a little more control over the backend, like capping usage, that would just be awesome. Overall, Firebase with its json structure for storing data is terrible, so I’d see easy room for improvement here. Just a hint.
Someone said just “does it connect like Airtable” which okay it doesn’t, but it does seem very similar too:
RethinkDB,
AppSmith,
Strapi,
Directus
and possibly Hasura (though that is GraphQL).
Oh and of course there’s the option of just setting up a full custom REST API using Advanced Custom Fields on WordPress which with cloud hosting can be basically free.
All of the above are free softwares (except ACF which is a paid plugin).