Show HN: LongLink - Build and run custom business apps in Python
github.comI’m building LongLink, an open-source platform for building and running business apps in Python.
While studying, I worked part-time at a bank building an internal tool. The team loved being able to request features and have them implemented exactly as they needed.
I wanted to make it easier to build these kinds of applications without losing flexibility.
The idea behind LongLink is simple: keep the code and abstract the infrastructure.
Each application is built with standard Python and FastAPI. The code lives in a normal repository, so it can be developed, tested, versioned, reviewed, and changed using normal engineering tools. LongLink provides the common services needed to build and operate those solutions.
Any feedback is welcome. Roast me well!
Curious to hear from people who have built custom software for companies: what did you use, and what were the main limitations?
Honestly, that's a great idea. I build LLM pipelines that I serve as an API but sometimes my clients aren't technical at all and they would rather access an end-to-end app than to deal with an API but I didn't find a way to do that in a flexible way but entreprise ready manner so far. I'll give a try.
Happy to hear that! At the core it simplify the life for developers that create those dedicated solutions, business and non technical people get a professional interface to interact with the application.
This reduce the development iteration cycle, and overall the cost.