Backendless Reviews

The codeless feature mattress development so much simpler and makes with so much quicker because there's less worry about syntax.

I don't know how the devs do it but support is truly incredible with responding to developer issues or inquiries in general in their support page.

Can be expensive when trying to scale up to higher tier plans for more traffic (number of API calls).

Some incredibly rarely used SQL doesn't work (more intricate and complex stuff thankfully but still).

Getting the application from nothing to operational is so much simpler than any other platform I've ever used and it's pretty dependable.

Backendless is a phenomenal platform. The capability to grow and scale from low code to pure code is a reason why we chose Backendless as a #lowcodedevelopment platform of choice.

Their support is second to none. I've used a lot of no/low-code platforms and as a rule, Backendless come up trumps.

Pricing model is my least favourite aspect as it's recently changed and the platform may become more expensive, though we're looking at ways to mitigate that issue.

Speed of delivery whilst being a mostly robust, mature and stable platform.

Gamification of learning process, video tutorials, forum with developers that help with difficult concepts.

Frontend is a bit cumbersome, but solves the purpose.

I'm working on a POC and can't afford professional developers at the moment.

ease of use

customer support

ease of integration

the new user may find it intimidating until they start feeling comfortable with the location of resources.

The nocode/lowcode environment makes it less stressful for the beginner and allows the more advanced user to add customizations where needed. The timeframe for the development effort has been reduced greatly.

Two things:

1) It's no-code / low-code, but the concepts are exactly the same as normal programming. It means it's less magical and allow you to progressively scale up the complexity of the app - at least that's my expectation. I have yet to go through the full loop.

2) Incredible support - this is what drove me to write a review. I experienced an issue while completing their excellent onboarding course (called Missions) - I reached out to support - this is crazy easy, I click the button within the onboarding course itself and all my details including which part of the course are automatically filled in. Then even more shocking for me is that 3 days later (yes, it included the weekends), not only did they reply to me with a solution... they actually deployed a new feature to ensure others won't run into the same issue.

Coming from a design background, Backendless is not the easiest to pick up. Doing basic things like creating a dropdown etc takes more work than just selecting a pre-made component. On one hand this means you can create anything and not tied to any pre-made components. On the other it means taking more time than other no-code platforms to get up and running.

It allows me, person without coding backgroun, to create a full fledge app that is highly customised to my requirements and design.

Backendless makes developing useful and usable web applications enormously easier than with traditional web dev tools. The support is second-to-none. The UI is so well-designed. I easily geared up to build simple apps in a matter of an hour and more complex apps in days instead of months.

The documentation needs substantial enhancement. Too many of the answers to my questions require digging through forum topics, which often are not clear or complete.

Backendless makes creating and querying databases so easy to do basic data aggregation, summarization, and presentation. The UI Builder makes creating simple data display and query UIs very easy and modern. I get useful tools very quickly that my company can use immediately and enhance iteratively.

They have tons of training videos.

The best part is the way you can build your logic with the drag and drop.

At times it appears you lose connectivity with the server so can lose some of your work.

Not seeing any.

The platform is a complete solution for building any kind of web or mobile application — front end + back end, with unbelievable amounts of "out of the box" components and functionalities. Very intuitive to learn, and for any question or support requests the Backendless team is quick to respond and help. Great community and company culture, too.

Documentation could use some work — because there are so many functions/features, it seems like the Backendless team has some catching up to do with adding more detail, examples, etc to their documentation. Having said that, the courses and tutorial videos on YouTube are amazingly well done and super useful.

We are rebuilding a live web application with tens of thousands of users entirely on Backendless. The app was built the "traditional way" ( Elixir back end, Vue.js front end, Kubernetes, AWS EC2 instances, etc) and we were completely dependent on highly paid "engineers" to maintain and make any changes to the app... Backendless is freeing us from this dependency, we are taking charge of our tech... as non-technical founders!

In creating my first app, I chose Backenless, and it was such a great decision to launch myself into the world of successful app owners. The process of storyboarding the UX was second to none. I felt like they were looking out for my investment and the UX and the same time. This company deserves a chance to bid on your project. I recommend them wholeheartedly.

I really can't think of anything. They were on time and on budget with a great product. If there is one thing to say is, "it's me," I want to done faster than is appropriate, but they managed my timeline expectations exceptionally well.

This is a social networking app, and they handled everything. I came up with ideas, and they suggested tweaks for efficiency and improved UX. This project was from idea stage to production.

Very intuitive interface, nice drag and drop builder even for complex logic in the code.

They also have a great product tour to get you familiar with key functions of the program

Its not completely clear on what the best practice is for using blocks or containers etc in the frontend builder.

Something to give more direction on that would help reduce time working things out yourself.

The other item, is if you have a block in the logic builder that is not connected to something and navigate away, there is no prompt, you just lose that whole block which could have had a bunch of config in it.

It is allowing us to build apps to test out our ideas without investing a bunch of development time and cost.

We can quickly create a proof of concept to see if it is something to put more time and money into