Show HN: Paragon Connect (YC W20) – Plaid for SaaS Apps We're Brandon and Ishmael, co-founders of Paragon (https://useparagon.com). We're building a platform to makes it easy to integrate your product with other SaaS apps like Salesforce / HubSpot / Slack. To share a little backstory, we started with a slightly different product (https://ift.tt/2xgY7K3) and decided to build Paragon Connect after hearing so many customer requests for this specific use case. If you’re a B2B software company, your customers have probably asked “does your product integrate with Salesforce / Slack / HubSpot / Jira / QuickBooks / etc.?” But building integrations in-house is a big lift - learning the differences between each vendor’s API and authentication methods, managing user tokens, and building the UI for users to manage their integrations can take months of engineering. Companies we talked to consistently shared this pain point with us, so we wanted to try creating a 'Plaid-like' experience for embedding 3rd-party SaaS integrations into your product. You can add Paragon's SDK with a few lines of code, then 'switch on' integration with any of our supported app providers. We provide a pre-built UI portal for your end users to activate and configure their integrations, and managed authentication so you don't need to handle the different auth strategies for each provider. Once you've setup our SDK, you can use Paragon's drag-and-drop workflow builder to map data between your app and other SaaS apps, or you can use Paragon's REST API to access the app provider's API directly. To show how it works, here's a quick demo video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcwOUMRXg_k&t=5s) where we build a Slack integration with Paragon Connect in about 8 minutes. If you're interested in trying Paragon Connect, you can sign up for a free 14-day trial here: https://ift.tt/3emQpRg. We'd love to hear your feedback - thanks for reading this far, and looking forward to your thoughts in the comments! May 5, 2021 at 09:05PM
Show HN: StreetComplete, an OpenStreetMap Editor for Humans StreetComplete is an OpenStreetMap[0] editor directed at people who want to contribute and want to do this using their smartphone, without learning how to edit things[1]. It is available as an Android application. It is intended to be used as one walks, with quests appearing as markers on the map. Selecting a marker allows one to answer a simple question. The answer will be added to the OpenStreetMap database, with app handling selecting objects for editing, transforming answer into OSM tags and making edits. OpenStreetMap account is needed to apply edits, but it is possible to start without it, make some edits and login/register later. Note: I am not the main author, but I am one of the active contributors. Github page is at https://ift.tt/2g8lasH and https://ift.tt/3nR9PzS shows what was recently released. [0]OpenStreetMap is a Wikipedia of maps, available on the open licence. This dataset is already used for many interestin...
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