If you're not adverse to cloud file storage, FormKiQ Core (I'm a co-founder) is an open source document management system that runs on AWS and is designed to allow custom integrations.
API first designed document management system that deploys to AWS. Makes it easy to run standalone or to add Document Management functionality to existing applications.
I think the value of RapidAPI comes from discovery (which I'm not sure if anyone uses for discovery) and payments. It's really slick setting up and enforcing pricing plans. But I think if you're serious in using an API you're going to need an agreement with the provider.
I think that's an excellent point. I think rapidapi.com is great for hobbyist or people starting out. If you are going to use an API for your company, I think you would like to deal with the API provider directly so you can have things like SLAs, etc. Since everything is an API that's something really easy to setup.
We (my cofounder and I) have built a lot of custom applications over the years. We found that this process was always the same.
1) Collect data from users and create a place to store it in (database, filesystem, etc)
2) Organize the data we've collected, so you can find it later
3) Process the data we've collected. Processing could include transforming the data, performing an action or sending the data to another system
This led us to create FormKiQ.
FormKiQ is a platform application that gives developers 100% control of their data, letting them automatically perform actions on the data through an event messaging architecture.
We’ve built FormKiQ with AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM), using AWS Lambda, API Gateway, and DynamoDB. The reason for this is that we wanted a system that didn’t require any configuring and managing of servers, and we also wanted a system we could both scale automatically in periods of high usage and cost next to nothing when barely being used.
We have found a lot of use cases for FormKiQ so far, and we wanted to share it with the HN community for ideas and to maybe even find a few people willing to try it out for their specific needs. We are still early in our development and looking for any kind of feedback!
We’ve aimed to make Parima simple and open and without any hidden layers.
Services like Netlify often offer a free tier (their loss leader), but adding extra functionality beyond the basics often requires upgrading to paid plans, with the full feature set not being available unless you’re paying a significant monthly amount. While this may make sense in some situations, it’s nice to have an option that allows you full control over the individual cloud products you want to use.
Hi, I'm the lead programmer of the FormKiQ Document Stack. Most organizations are moving to the cloud, and we're seeing a need for readymade architectures that organize and coordinate AWS products. And while it's still a heated debate here on Hacker News, we've found that a serverless architecture works very well for what we're trying to accomplish.
The Document Stack installs with CloudFormation, and includes such features as an API and virus scanning, all existing within an organization's own private cloud.
https://github.com/formkiq/formkiq-core