Notes from the platform.
Product news, implementation notes, and technical updates.
Webhooks — the platform as a participant, not a silo
The REST API answers how does my system read the platform? Webhooks answer the inverse: how does the platform tell my system something happened? Witho...
Automations — business logic without writing code
Every business application needs custom logic. When an invoice is paid, create a receipt and email the customer. When a task is overdue by more than a...
The canvas page builder — custom pages without writing templates
The default views — table, kanban, calendar, list — cover most day-to-day work. Most of what users do in the application is look at records, edit reco...
Homepage widgets — a personalized landing page
Most users land on the home screen at the start of every session. It's the first thing they see, the one surface that sets the tone of the application...
API protection — rate limits, throttling, and challenge flows
An API worth integrating with is also an API worth attacking, misusing, or accidentally hammering. A runaway script that polls every two seconds inste...
Image handling — thumbnails, compression, and lightboxes built in
Images are heavy. A product catalog with five thousand items and full-resolution photos is a spectacular way to destroy page-load times, mobile data p...
The REST API — the whole application over HTTP
Every business application has to integrate with something else. A public website that needs to display the latest product catalog. A mobile app that...
Multi-tenancy — many customers, one platform, real isolation
Multi-tenancy isn't just a deployment shape. It's a design decision that sets the economic model of the platform — who pays for what, how many custome...
Tenant customizations — one platform, every customer's shape
Customers look similar from thirty thousand feet and genuinely different on the ground. Two accounting firms, two manufacturers, two nonprofits — view...
Spreadsheet exports — every view as a spreadsheet
"I just need it in a spreadsheet" is one of the most common sentences in any organization that works with data. An accountant wants to recon...
Notifications — keeping users in the loop, in the right place
Email is noisy. Chat is fragmented. An in-app notification centre is where users see things that matter in the context of the application itself, with...
Authentication — accounts, passwords, and lifecycle
Authentication is the door. Every other security control in a platform — permissions, audit trails, data access policies — sits behind it and assumes...
The kanban view — your workflow, visible at a glance
A kanban board is not just a prettier list. It's a running visualization of the state machine of your workflow. Each column is a state. Each card is a...
Full-text search — finding anything, fast
Once a tenant holds thousands or tens of thousands of records across dozens of types, navigation stops scaling. Menus get long, filters take a moment...
Roles and permissions — fine-grained access control
Any platform serious about business use has to answer three questions convincingly: who can see what, who can change what, and who decides who can do...
The email engine — transactional email with full template control
Email is still the default channel for transactional messages. Password resets, order confirmations, appointment reminders, invoice notifications, wee...
Data import and model export — move data and configuration cleanly
Every serious implementation makes two moves that the day-to-day UI isn't built for. Data comes in — from a legacy system that's being retired, from a...
The calendar view — time-based data in its natural layout
Every piece of data with a date on it has a calendar dimension, even if you usually look at it as a list. Appointments, project deadlines, employee sh...
Activity log — a built-in audit trail for every record
"Who changed this, and when?" is the question every business asks eventually — usually after a small mistake has produced a larger consequen...
Grouping and calculations — reports that live inside your data
Reporting is traditionally a separate activity. You pull data out of the application, load it into a spreadsheet or a business-intelligence tool, buil...