Thanks! I'd say each each integration has its own nuances that can be tricky - we've found Salesforce notoriously has one of the most challenging and monolithic APIs, while Slack is typically pretty nice to work with. Interestingly, they're both the same company now.
I made an edit to the original post to clarify the reasoning around our pricing. I think that many people want a fully hosted solution so they don't have to manage their own servers, performance, etc. and we can take care of all of that for you.
Thanks, edited our post to clarify why we're charging $30/mo - we do plan to offer a free version or trial in the future.
I think that most other "low-code" players are focused on RPA (helping ops automate internal business processes) whereas we're focused on helping product & engineering build integrations between their product and other services.
Our focus is on helping developers and product teams build integrations between their core product and 3rd party services. "Medium complexity" is a good way to describe it - you can accomplish a good amount on Paragon without writing code, but if you need to write a custom function to go the last mile, you can.
Appreciate the feedback. We mention in the post that we charge for Paragon and that it starts at $30/mo. I've added another edit to clarify why we don't offer a free trial, although we plan to in the future.
Good point - many experienced engineers like yourself can build things like this quickly without Paragon. However, many of our users are frontend engineers or semi-technical product managers who may not be as comfortable spinning up their own service as you are. For backend engineers who do use Paragon, they can handoff workflows to other, less technical team members who then don't have to rely on engineering every time they need to make a small change. We've gotten feedback from customers who've told us this is well worth the $30/mo we charge for Paragon.
Absolutely - our vision is that one day frontend devs will be able to spin up entire backends on Paragon, and just need to plug in their database / email provider / etc. of choice.
Appreciate your feedback on our onboarding flow, you're right and I apologize for any misunderstanding. We'll update our flow to better reflect our pricing.
