Show HN: Revert – Open-source unified API for product integrations

Hi HN! Allen &amp; Jatin here, co-founders of Revert.dev<p>Integrations require a lot more engineering time, resources, and ongoing maintenance than you would first expect.<p>When building your own integrations you have to deal with challenges, such as: - unreliable third party integration endpoints, which fail or hang more often than you think; - monitoring and reliability of the integration code; dealing with different schemas, gotchas, rate-limits of the various APIs you integrate with. - You need to do this all alongside maintaining your own code base.<p>This is what we’re solving for at Revert.<p>With Revert you can ship a reliable product integration in under 2 days, and we take care of all of the above and more.<p>- We current support CRMs such as Salesforce, Hubspot, ZohoCRM &amp; Pipedrive through our APIs.<p>- We also support Slack (in beta) alongside Discord that will be supported this week. Our roadmap is public — <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;revertinc&#x2F;revert&#x2F;issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3Aintegration">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;revertinc&#x2F;revert&#x2F;issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3...</a><p>- We’re open-source (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;revertinc&#x2F;revert">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;revertinc&#x2F;revert</a>) and want to build the project with the community in the open. If you’d like an integration you can add one &amp; welcome contributions!<p>Would love to get the community’s feedback.

Is there a tutorial on how to add a new API?<p>Given the tiny number of APIs supported today, encouraging the community to add more APIs seems like it should be the #1 priority.<p>I didn&#x27;t see any sort of tutorial on adding new API&#x27;s on either the homepage or the GitHub readme.

Looks promising, I&#x27;ve 2 questions.<p>1- How does Revert ensure the security and privacy of data while facilitating integrations through its unified API, especially when dealing with various third-party applications and services?<p>2- The platform mentions a &#x27;Unified Data Model&#x27; and &#x27;Standardised data formats and schemas.&#x27; Could you elaborate on how these aspects help in simplifying the integration process across different CRMs and what measures are in place to handle discrepancies or inconsistencies in data formats between various integrations?

i have probably seen 10 products in this space come and go in way less time than one would think both proprietary and open source. proprietary are either shut down or acquired and made unusable by price explosion or crippling of features. the open source ones always turn stale way before even half of that ambitious integration list has a checkmark, which makes these kind of a joke. relying on something like this seems to never be worth it: the painful parts are usually auth flows and maybe api paging but anything that could cause api mismatch or store data on third party servers is a recipe for disaster. in addition no integration platform i saw that was doing more than hand through the base api surface directly would cover every detail and have quite the level of feature support focus that was relevant to the application. i saw more than once that a company had to add their own app and integration just to handle unsupported cases because they could not afford a complete rewrite to add a critical feature in a timely manner.

Congrats! My first questions with this sort of thing are always the same:<p>- is it easy to deploy from test to prod via CI?<p>- is the configuration source-controllable&#x2F;diffable via Git?<p>Ta!

Congrats on the launch! This certainly seems like a product for which a big market exists.<p>As someone who is dealing with Salesforce integration in my own company, I have a question: how well does the Revert Salesforce integration work with highly customized Salesforce setup? We operate in a complex domain, so our Salesforce setup is customized with a bunch of custom entities in a complex hierarchy. So not just Accounts, Opportunities etc. Does Revert work with that at all or does it assume a certain default data model?

Is there anything like this for interacting with the various social networks? I&#x27;m mainly just interested in a common auth + posting interface.

I would really like to be able to be able to pull data out of Salesforce, Pipedrive etc and into our ETL tool (Easy Data Transform), so that users can clean&#x2F;reshape&#x2F;reformat the data. However our software is a desktop C++&#x2F;Qt application, so it doesn&#x27;t look like a good fit with this. Does anyone know anything comparable for desktop (free or paid)?

As a Zapier user looking to go with something private for new use cases, how does this compare to an on-prem n8n.io?

Can you explain your thoughts on pricing on the hosted version? $40&#x2F;connection seems much higher than your competitors and a total non-starter. Most open source projects seem to aim for “healthy margin over self hosting” but with even modest usage (1k connections) this becomes prohibitively expensive.

here are some tips to differentiate: 1. focus on automating integration <i>provisioning</i> ... ie, dev still have to go through the various third parties they want to integrate with and that is a PITA 2. focus on something <i>other</i> than oauth... api tokens are actually way more straight forward to developers than oauth in terms of setting up

Congrats on the launch Jatin and Allen!

Congrats on the launch folks!

Is this supposed to be like Zapier but embedded in the product more tightly?

This is amazing. Congratulations on the launch

Really cool stuff! Congrats on the launch!

congratulation jatin! looks like great product.