8base Reviews: 4.5/5 — Highly Rated

Have been following the evolution of the low-code platform for several years. The 8base team keeps introducing new features and productivity tools for developers that make the experience of building on the platform a snap. Historically known for its focus on backend-as-a-service, 8base now expanded its offering to the front-end with a React-based UI component library. I like their intent adherence to standards such as GraphQL and dedication to developer experience.

Albeit its track record and good reputation, 8base is still a small company and hasn't broken yet into mainstream brand awareness. This moderate growth in visibility limits its broader adoption among developers who use the platform in companies ranging from startups to large enterprises.

The platform is highly efficient for creating showcase and MVP applications from scratch. I've primarily used it for demos and showcase apps in events.

As a backend developer who likes to jump right in w/o reading the docs (yes, I'm that guy) - I was pleasantly surprised I could set up a production-ready backend within 15 minutes!! I just defined a couple of DB tables, clicked a couple of buttons, and voila -> backend deployed, APIs automatically working (including pagination, filtering, etc.)

Not much, really. Some old habits die hard because I like seeing a lot of code and everything explicitly defined (in code). But the entire purpose of 8base is to write less code and be more productive. Plus, everything that is automatically generated can be customized, so I have nothing to worry about.

Starting new projects, testing new ideas, and getting them to market used to be 10 times harder with all the usual development overhead. Not only do things get done faster now, but also the entire project is production-ready and scalable. So if an idea I'm testing goes viral, I KNOW I can take on a million new users overnight without any code adjustments. That is truly powerful.

It is very easy to use. You can start integrating and making aplications very easy. Also, the documentation is very good to get started. I love the 8base web platform that allows you to see your data.

It would be great if there are more tutorials in youtube or any other platform. So it would be easy to become an expert in 8base. Also, it would be helpfull to have more code examples.

It is making easier to make web aplications and also to mantain them. It has a lot of benefits. It is making me 100 times more productive. My bussiness is 100 times better now.

I can get all the products on the same platform, DB with graphql, cloud functions like webhooks, triggers, tasks, etc with an environment like nodejs

that deployments often fail and are very slow to run again.

Among the many benefits of 8base, the one that stands out the most is that I can have the entire backend centralized in it, easily apply integrations, and secure the database.

Very knowledgeable team. Took the time to understand my business and provided comprehensive support to define the scope and set clear expectations for the engagement.

Dependency on 3rd party service providers to establish business requirements.

8base serves as the foundation for our platform stack, enabling the core functionalities of our solution, managing virtual environment to support capacity and scale, integrating with other ecosystem participants and providing relevant advice and guidance a we scale our business. 8base is, in essence, our "outsourced CTO".

I am the CEO of a Software Development and Professional SaaS Company. 8base provides ease of mind and simplifies my business by providing Professional Backend-as-a-Service. these Services include; AWS usage, Database, Security, Scalability, rights and permissions, Data Model and GraphQL Engine and all the DevOps Services. The value is incredible and allows us to service our Customers and Solution Users at en extremely high level. We leverage 8base for all the Back-end Services and our Developers just need to build the front end Web Applications using the GraphQL (API) calls to the established back-end . 8base also simplifies our use of AWS and Database usage, with predictable costs and virtually unlimited scalability. 8base is also very service oriented and helpful to leverage all aspects of the platform. In addition , the new 8base Application Builder fills a need to streamline Web Application Development while leveraging the Platform / Backend Services.

I really do not have any dislikes. Any issues that have arisen they have helped us understand immediately. Building Front-end Apps using React-JavaScript takes a professional Developer. With the new 8base Application Builder this helps me have the proper developers for the proper business case.

Simplifying Software Development and handling all Back-end Services. This allows us to have predictable costs with true Scalability. We have an elite team that leverage all the value of 8base.

Graph QL api is very powerful and easy to implement

No possible to have restful endpoints for the api

ORM Management

8Base is an amazing platform for developing web applications so fast, it's secure, and it allows developers to interact without losing control. The cost is really very good for the value it generates.

8Base just needs to include more base examples to take from there and evolve the platform.

The main pain that attacks is to develop applications quickly given the scarcity of labor. Likewise, in this process they included tools so that developers did not feel that they were losing control over the application. They use state-of-the-art technology and allow applications and solutions to quickly scale.

I created my data schema in like 10 minutes and then all my CRUD endpoints where availaible through graphQL

I don't use every features, only the minimum so everything is good for me

Is solving ORM management for me

I like the ease of database management: you can easily create and update tables. For example, you can delete table rows, and 8base takes care of normalization. It also has integration with Auth0.

8base doesn't have Auth0 integration with Gatsby yet. There is a demo on how to integrate Auth0 with React, but Gatsby's environment has some differences. I put in a request for direct integration with Gatsby, but it's still in the works.

8base solves the problem of data management. It helps to store the images for my Gatsby site on Amazon CDN. It also launched Form Builders recently, but I haven't tried its front-end features yet. I look forward to it.

We have been working together for a year. We found in 8base a company with a lot of professionalism, human values and commitment. We were able to achieve the goals we set ourselves. And we hope to continue working together for a long time.

We have nothing to dislike about 8base, we would like to continue working together in the future.

We worked on an 8base core-project where they needed an ad-hoc development team. We were able to deliver it on time working as a team with them.

As a small business, 8Base has become increasingly useful as a single touchpoint for all our database and infrastructure needs. It's become easier for us to manage and scale our technologies as we use them. Its low-code environment can be managed even by non-technical staff. This is a huge plus! In addition, a number of other qualities come to mind: the customer service has been timely, the platform has the ability to easily and manually fix/input data, to quickly search and query information, and to silo data into a variety of environments with a single click.

Over three years, several times I have had our database go down and we were unable to see what went wrong. This is a big problem, as we are in the Healthcare space and working with doctors. Since those times, the customer support and engineering team at 8Base has drastically improved and we have issues fixed in no time. It's great!

8Base is solving the challenge that non-technical teams or teams with not enough dev capacity have when creating a company that requires some development work. This is an important chance to be able to break into a market with no dominant player.

Their knowledge of business and entrepreneurship Their partnership and communication Their loyalty Their commitment to excellence

Nothing at this moment. Thanks for asking!

8Base had to pivot the engineering of our project due to Russia-Ukraine conflict, and thus far, have navigated a difficult situation beautifully.

We love the ability to quickly create functions that exist behind a GraphQL API, without needing to set up the additional infrastructure or security. The ability to easily modify and change data structures within the data storage system is a game changer, as it allows for great amounts of flexibility as you explore customer needs. Overall, the platform has sped up development through to deployment and we are able to implement changes or enhancements much quicker. The more our development team uses 8Base, the more positive feedback we receive. 8Base is preferred over even comparable AWS tools!

Overall, there truly isn't much to be critical of. If we had to critique, we would like to see a way to easily tack on a monitoring system to centralize our logging system with the rest of our tools.

8base is allowing us to develop without having to set up the infrastructure that goes into building a net new product, including but not limited to, our deployment pipelines and the infrastructure as code. Outside of this, it is simply an easier platform for our junior devs to pick up quickly and start running with. As a high-growth startup, speed to market is key - 8Base is helping solve this business challenge.

Not only does the technology platform help organization achieve profound business objectives, but it is also scalable and incredibly robust and unique.

we did not know about them earlier- no complaints

A Dramatic increase in velocity gains for development and cost savings that would have otherwise not been achieved. Great product development through 8base

Turning your ideas into reality is made easy using 8Base. We at ITWox specialize in working with Startups, most of the startups have similar challenges like the cost to build, time to market, and infrastructure management etc. We are able to solve most of these challenges using the 8Base platform. A few interesting features to talk about are - Managing the data is easy because of the prebuilt API. - The UI is easy to understand, and very interactive. - The API explorer is a very useful tool.

As 8base is developing new features, the documentation is sometimes not very clear or does not look deep enough into the functionality, so it is difficult to get complex data structures done at first.

We are managing, supporting, and enhancing a few startup businesses to build on 8Base. - For non-technical founders wea ree helping them to build the full-scale technology business - With the App Builder, we are simplifying the front-end web app experience.

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

Solution Advisors foster confidence that 8base is sincerely invested in customer success. Native toolset is vastly extensible via JAVA & TypeScript.

Slack connectivity to internal resources is touted as value added but falls short of potential due to profuctory replies and lack of follow up.

Rapid development. Ease of standing up platform. Consolidated back end services. All this means we're more profitable.

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

When my co-founder and I started our SaaS company, we wanted to avoid hiring an IT staff to build and maintain our SaaS product. With 8base, we were able to have them develop our product using their low code platform and then had them become our ongoing maintenance and enhancement provider.

We were one of 8base's initial customers and sometimes had to go through "growing pains" together. Most of the pain was focused on process immaturity that improved over time.

The biggest problem that 8base solved for us was taking the business vision we had in our heads and making it a SaaS reality. The main benefit was a robust, feature-rich SaaS platform delivered at an outstanding value.

The UI is very good. They have taken the time to understand developer needs and built the tools that make the developer's job a lot easier and allow the developer to focus on design and functionality instead of non-value-add technical work.

I'm eager to see the front-end tools that they have promised. The Graph QL needs a little bit of work to enable nested filters and updates. While you can do complex filtering, it happens on the client-side, which is less than ideal.

I'm using 8base to do rapid prototyping and build software with non-technical founders. The rapid prototyping and ability to implement software that can scale without having to re-platform the product are making a huge difference.