8base Reviews & Product Details

My company, ITWox Inc., (www.itwox.com) provides a "Virtual CTO organization" for FinTechs and other start-ups - including technology strategy, product strategy, UI/UX design & development/support services spread across our 3 delivery centers (USA, Costa Rica & India). 8base has been a great partner & platform for our customers as it takes care of some of the harder plumbing in any application/platform development (DevOps, Security & Infra scaling) as the platform reduces the time/effort significantly. Onboarding new developers have been a breeze for us & on average it took us 2 days for a developer to know the platform in-depth as well as start building apps. This in itself is a significant gain in productivity. As we work with start-ups, 8base has been a great fit to get to market much faster, with stability & scale of the backend. Overall: very happy with the platform & excited to see it take off in the community

You are limited to AWS Cognito or Auth0 for authentication - but then these are good enough for most of our client base. Besides that, not much to dislike here as it does what it claims to do.

- bring products to the market as fast as possible - ability to find technical talent & ramp up & scale quickly to the client's needs - have a strong technical base to build & iterate on products/platforms

8base has truly created a game-changer. The dynamic Graphql API is amazing! Just use the GUI to define your tables and fields, and the GraphQL API is dynamically created/updated.

From the beginning, I was wishing 8base had some front-end tools to help with development, but they've just released their drag and drop front-end editor—another game changer.

ReactJS and other technologies make it easy to make gorgeous front-end and single-page applications. The heavy lifting has always been the back-end. Making an entire AWS back-end is no easy/small task, but 8base makes it so.

I have been using 8base for 2 years and a half now. It has been the best tech investment we made in the early days to build https://luego.eu. By abstracting most of the technical challenges for us, they turned DevOps into a commodity. This enabled us to focus on Product from day 1 and deliver a truly differentiated experience to our customers, instead of wasting time on building our own infrastructure. Using 8base is a key pillar of our product and go-to-market strategy because it enables us to iterate faster than the competition. Last but not least, the reactivity of their support and the quality of their help is astonishing.

I wished there was a better way to monitor issues in production with a dashboarding of performances and alert systems. Also, the question of the ownership of our data and vendor lock-in remains. We still don't know what will happen if one day we need to change our infrastructure and migrate our data out.

The main benefit of 8base is the privilege of developing software by focusing mainly on products and customers instead of infrastructure. It enables teams to stay small and iterate fast while having the impact of a startup with an internal DevOps team.

8base re-shaped the way software is built. As a Software Developer and Product Manager, I love that I can use the bests strategies for prototyping a digital product to actually build a powerful scalable system.

I think that what the platform is missing is a mechanism to extend it. There are hundreds of potential features that the platform could have that can be built by a strong community.

Building products faster, period. 8base takes the concept of Low code to the maximum expression. Their Data modeling tool and cloud functions are the most powerful tools that I've ever used to deliver apps faster.

I think the product speaks for itself. My team and I were drawn to it from our first tests. After that, the 8base team reached out to us and gave us the confidence to start building on their platform. Now we have a small (but growing) business unit built around low-code with 8base at the core. Whenever we ran into a speedbump their support team has been readily available which is something we appreciate a lot.

There are some features that we have requested and we are super excited about App Builder. So it´s not that we dislike stuff but we wish it was available sooner.

Low-code projects with great flexibility but with no DevOps headaches. We use it to create small apps and middleware solutions. We like the CI/CD that's built into it.

They make the backend easy so innovators can focus on the front end (which is normally where the value creation is noticed).

An early stage ventures goes through multiple stages from concept, design, planning, and implementation. With many teams, its good to have a quarterback and always know where you are in the process. They do this very well, and everyone's accessible. But at this critical stage, there's always room for improvement.

Back end engineeering is always the most complex, and they remove this problem for founders. Frankly it makes the innovation side more fun.

8Base is set up so that any one can use it right out of the box. I have some team members who are not technically inclined but they were able to use it without much technical instruction.

While to app builder in intuitive there really should be more templates that you can use right out of the box. This would benefit those who do not have the best technical skills

Internal applications that needed to be released in a qucik manner

8base is a strong platform for full-stack services integrating backend and frontend, allowing the users to develop fast, scalable, and amazing products. Comparing this with other platforms 8base is at another level as low code platform for all the things that include between frontend and backend that allows you to create a full product.

8base is a complete product and doesn't have anything that I dislike, the team is continuing to work on improving the service, and platform. The support service is really good, and you don't have any to worry about.

Reduce times of development. Create backend services with really good quality without spending too much time. Create good frontend websites, appearance, and functionality without spending too much time on styles, functionality, and things that you need to do from code. Solve problems of authentication that is always a lot of work when you create a project from 0.

I think 8base is very nice for creating projects rapidly. I really like the graphql features it has, and the easy way it has to enhance the backend with the custom functions.

I think one of the downsides is the documentation, it is something hard to find what you want to do, so it leads sometimes to delays in the development process.

It serves as the database where we are storing different projects; then we are using the graphql services in order to make the queries and mutations in an easy and fast way

The easy way to have a graphql api from a relational database

Sometime the performance of the queries gets low when a table has to much relations

Have a awesome graphql api in minutes

I love the ease with which you can create tables and relationships as well as the different queries. and complex queries can be made very easily from the client.

the limit it has for triggers since it cannot exceed a certain weight and for large projects it can be a problem. and also not having a log of all requests can make it difficult to identify when it is a server or code error.

allows you to create tables very quickly to avoid wasting time in repetitive configurations and installations and gives directly an endpoint you add authentication and ready you can test very quickly

I've been using 8base for a few years now and it's been an amazing choice for our backends. with 8base I was able to set up a database with a built-in graphQL server in minutes. The UI for managing the database, creating new tables and columns with specific types and relationships is simply fantastic, The UI for managing and creating roles is great and super simple to set up roles and permissions overall. The documentation now overall is pretty good as well, and I've only had to contact support a few times for questions a couple of years ago, and they have definitely improved the documentation further since. The price for the service is reasonable even for single small developers like me or for hobby projects. 8base support has been pretty great. Overall it's a fantastic service and I recommend it to everyone who wants to set up a backend as a service quickly.

My dislikes are very nitpicky except 1 thing. The only real negative I have experienced with 8base is that the login and register functionality for customers have gone down several times in the years I have used it. I believe around 5 times in total it was down for more than an hour. Each time I created a support ticket and usually got a quick response that they started working on fixing it quickly no matter the time of day. To my understanding it has only been the "loginWithEmailAndPassword" and "signUpWithEmailAndPassword" functions that have broken over time. Which you only need to use if you want to handle login/register on your website. However the default recommended login/signup method is to redirect the user to an auth0 login/register page, and then get redirected back to your own website after the user logs in. (I think this login/signup method is the one they have most focus on and that likely has been functional the entire time). --- When I first signed up 8base had a fantastic live chat support where you could talk to experienced 8base support members live to figure out issues. They have since removed the live chat and the only way to contact them is now the community forum they have, or a support ticket system. This isn't really that big of a deal since the docs are pretty great and I pretty much only use the support if things go down. But it was nice to have the live chat option.

8base allowed us to get an entire backend up and running in just a few minutes including a graphQL api endpoint that supports subscriptions. This likely saved us hundreds of hours, and many headaches maintaining both a postgres database, and managing database migrations and setting up an api server, building an entire role and permissions system and more. It has been a huge time saver, and provides an amazing UX to manage all this. It's also great for setting up a project quickly for small clients.

How easy is it to build and edit an entire backend, and not need to care about DevOps and the feeling that you can deploy something in hours that should last a couple of days

When I was new to 8base the documentation didn't help too much in more complex tasks like example authentication with OpenID and just because I found an old repo with this example I was able to replicate, Some bugs were found but always the support people are ready to resolve these problems

We were looking for a way to fast deploy a backend environment and just care about the frontend, a very good benefit is not caring about server connections, crashes, DOSS attacks

The ease with which data models can be created and interacted with. The API explorer is helpful for quickly building and testing CRUD operations. How there is always a way to build an idea with the tools of the platform.

The data views could have an option to double click on a field with a referenced relation and either take you to it, or show a popup with the information of the foreign, referenced element. The logs could be separated per function, as in, whenever I click a function name on the platform, I see a log of its executions and the console.log/console.errors that belong to that function specifically. Other than that, any improvement that would make the logs more helpful for debugging would be greatly appreciated.

Increased ease of managing backend operations and data modeling. The type "File" and how 8base handles file uploads is very useful and time saving. Speed of development is undeniably increased. Having most backend needs met by one platform is convenient.

It's straightforward to use and amicable for the new developer, the API explorer work well, and it has all the functionality that's needed to test the queries and mutations.

Sometimes it's slow and has some issues and bugs with migrations, but nothing that prevents the workflow, the documentation is very useful and has all that's needed, but sometimes it's difficult for the newbie.

The use of queries and integration with Graphql it's really helpful and the API explorer to mount the queries/mutations is a great and valuable feature.