Treasure hunt for a solution
Nango: a unified platform for managing lots of external integrations
It started because I needed two-way GitHub sync for BabyLovable
Right now we use Freestyle Git's built-in GitHub sync
Except it can't create an empty repo for the user
everything else is excellent
To raise the UX
I can't ask the user to make a repo by hand and then come back to bind it
I want a tighter, more seamless integration
So I had to wire GitHub OAuth myself
and let the user authorize me to create the repo for them
That brings a maintenance burden you can't ignore
I have to store user access tokens and manage their lifecycle
refresh with refresh tokens
handle retries, concurrency, rate limits
Now imagine
later I also need Notion / Slack / Google Docs
each one its own integration and a carefully kept auth-state machine
and every provider's style is different
From years in the industry
most external integrations are not a pleasant maintenance story
Just thinking about it is hell
So I looked for a solution
Is there a professional service that can take over this infrastructure
so I can stay on core product
With Genspark's help I found Nango
Replit, a flagship in coding agents, is a customer too
https://nango.dev/blog/the-hidden-costs-of-building-product-integrations-in-house
https://nango.dev/blog/why-product-integration-infrastructure-is-harder-than-you-think#introduction
https://nango.dev/case-studies/replit
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Treasure hunt for a solution
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Treasure hunt for a solution
Nango: a unified platform for managing lots of external integrations
It started because I needed two-way GitHub sync for BabyLovable
Right now we use Freestyle Git's built-in GitHub sync
Except it can't create an empty repo for the user
everything else is excellent
To raise the UX
I can't ask the user to make a repo by hand and then come back to bind it
I want a tighter, more seamless integration
So I had to wire GitHub OAuth myself
and let the user authorize me to create the repo for them
That brings a maintenance burden you can't ignore
I have to store user access tokens and manage their lifecycle
refresh with refresh tokens
handle retries, concurrency, rate limits
Now imagine
later I also need Notion / Slack / Google Docs
each one its own integration and a carefully kept auth-state machine
and every provider's style is different
From years in the industry
most external integrations are not a pleasant maintenance story
Just thinking about it is hell
So I looked for a solution
Is there a professional service that can take over this infrastructure
so I can stay on core product
With Genspark's help I found Nango
Replit, a flagship in coding agents, is a customer too
https://nango.dev/blog/the-hidden-costs-of-building-product-integrations-in-house
https://nango.dev/blog/why-product-integration-infrastructure-is-harder-than-you-think#introduction
https://nango.dev/case-studies/replit
Nango: a unified platform for managing lots of external integrations
It started because I needed two-way GitHub sync for BabyLovable
Right now we use Freestyle Git's built-in GitHub sync
Except it can't create an empty repo for the user
everything else is excellent
To raise the UX
I can't ask the user to make a repo by hand and then come back to bind it
I want a tighter, more seamless integration
So I had to wire GitHub OAuth myself
and let the user authorize me to create the repo for them
That brings a maintenance burden you can't ignore
I have to store user access tokens and manage their lifecycle
refresh with refresh tokens
handle retries, concurrency, rate limits
Now imagine
later I also need Notion / Slack / Google Docs
each one its own integration and a carefully kept auth-state machine
and every provider's style is different
From years in the industry
most external integrations are not a pleasant maintenance story
Just thinking about it is hell
So I looked for a solution
Is there a professional service that can take over this infrastructure
so I can stay on core product
With Genspark's help I found Nango
Replit, a flagship in coding agents, is a customer too
https://nango.dev/blog/the-hidden-costs-of-building-product-integrations-in-house
https://nango.dev/blog/why-product-integration-infrastructure-is-harder-than-you-think#introduction
https://nango.dev/case-studies/replit