How Canonic uses Canonic

Our platform supports building a lot of internal tools and other similar use-cases that usually every company has to build. We here at canonic were able to leverage canonic itself to power some parts of it. It’s kinda meta that way 😉 Let’s see what we build on Canonic.

Public Roadmap

We released a SaaS API Pack recently in our #30DaysOfCanonic campaign, which has the basic tools that most of the SaaS startup needs. One of them is having a public roadmap on your platform to let your users know what coming and offers you to be more transparent with them.

The public roadmap and whats new updates section you see on your dashboard when you log in is powered by canonic itself. We were able to create the backend for it in less than 30 mins along with all the data to seed it with.

What’s New Section

Along very similar lines, we also have a What’s New section on our dashboard that has regular updates of all the new things being released on the platform. The backend of which just required a single table and took us less than 15 mins to build it out. It’s the fastest way to get your APIs ready for consumption.

Dynamic Notifications

A product’s ability to capture the user’s attention is crucial, and dynamic prompts/notification is one such efficient way to engage users. It allows you to communicate with users by directing their attention to the navigation bar and can be used for a variety of purposes, such as for announcing business news, showing off the best features, generating leads, and so on.

Any banner notifications you see on Canonic’s website are powered by canonic itself. We’ve successfully used it to show Launch Banners (Our Product Hunt Launch), new feature releases, etc.

Sample Project Manager

We have a lot of sample projects (templates) that you can clone and start building on top of it. It was becoming a sort of task to create a proper funnel from creating a project on canonic, building it out properly and them making it available to other users as a sample project on canonic itself.

We created an internal tool that keeps track of all the sample projects made on canonic. It gives us the ability to activate<>deactivate our projects as samples, editing, adding/updating descriptions, etc. It has become super easy for us to just create projects and make them available to everyone.

Request Forms

We had the requirement to quickly collect forms data for all the demo requests we were getting. We used canonic to store all the request information and trigger emails to the respective person to take action.

Canonic also supports integration with Hubspot that also lets us add the details of the contact on our Hubspot account.

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