Gadget is a full-stack development platform that provides a hosted environment with an integrated backend, frontend, and database, enabling developers to build and deploy web applications with minimal boilerplate code. By automating setup and scaling processes, Gadget allows teams to accelerate development cycles and increase project throughput, significantly reducing time to market.
Funding
$9.3M raised to dateRaised to date based on public sources. This may differ from the amount the company actually raised and is based only on what is publicly available on the internet.
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Product
Problem
Developing and deploying web applications often involves managing complex backend infrastructure, databases, APIs, and frontends, leading to significant boilerplate code and time-consuming setup processes. This complexity can slow down development cycles and increase the time to market for new applications.
Solution
Gadget is a full-stack development platform that simplifies web application creation by providing a hosted environment with an integrated backend, frontend, and database. The platform automates setup, scaling, and deployment processes, allowing developers to build and run applications with minimal boilerplate. Gadget offers features such as a visual database editor, serverless API actions, auto-generated and documented APIs, and a zero-setup React frontend, all designed to accelerate development and reduce operational overhead. The platform also includes an AI assistant that can generate code and integrations, further streamlining the development process.
Target Audience
Gadget is designed for agencies, app developers, e-commerce brands, and freelancers who want to build and deploy web applications more efficiently, reduce boilerplate, and accelerate their development cycles.
Features
- Hosted, full-stack environments with one-click deployment
- Visual database editor for creating tables without SQL or schema migrations
- Serverless API actions definable in a Node.js environment
- Auto-generated, typesafe APIs and client libraries with complete documentation
- Zero-setup React frontends with auto-generated components pre-wired to the API
- Built-in authentication with extensible login forms and Google SSO
- Integration capabilities for Shopify and other e-commerce platforms
- Support for background jobs powered by Temporal for durable and reliable processing
- Global content delivery network (CDN) powered by Cloudflare for performance and DDoS protection
- Integration with ElasticSearch for full-text search capabilities
- Command-line interface (CLI) for local development and scripting