Xano

What do you like best?

I run an appliance repair business and dispatch up to a hundred calls per day to different vendors. I was able to create a bidding system that lets me automate the buying and selling of these calls. Xano is so cool because I was able to do this entirely on my own. I did do a few support calls with Michael but once those questions were answered, everything was working. I'm amazed I was able to pull this off.

What do you dislike?

So far so good... not much to complain about.

What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?

The tricky part with the bidding system is that is that you need to have certain database operations update different records in a different order depending on the type of action. To further complicate things, sometimes you need to contact other services outside of xano. One thing I really love is that Xano is friendly to database transactions so that if something screws up (like an external service going offline), it will allow me to revert all the operations it did as if it never happened. This let's me make sure that my data is always in the correct state and never has any issues of getting partially updated. I remember reading about this back in my university days, but it was pretty cool realizing the real world problem and then having Xano help me complete it.