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Add AI workflows & backend to your Webflow apps 🚀

BuildShip is the easiest way for you build workflows and automation on Webflow. From simple form submissions to building full fledged AI Assistant everything is possible.

• ✅ Fetch data via APIs from anywhere to show on Webflow pages

• ✅ Save submissions to any database or tool

• ✅ AI gen content and workflows on CMS

• ✅ Add AI Assistant chatbots +

Learn more at https://buildship.com/webflow

We just released a video on using the NEW Streaming API with FlutterFlow and BuildShip. Plus we are running a comprehensive workshop on Monday on building and using Streaming API in your apps with BuildShip.

You can now easily share your workflows using remix links! Share individual workflows or entire folders containing multiple workflows. Allow others to clone your workflows, including teammates, agency clients, and your audience/community. Consider creating paid templates.

Quick Menu for Fields

We've introduced a convenient new feature that eases the process of filling in node fields. With our Quick Menu, you can now easily input environment variables, secrets, and pass values from the previous node with the efficiency of keyboard shortcuts.

Image and File Columns on BuildShip Tables

We have now added the ability to upload images, files, and assets directly to your BuildShip's Storage using the Image and File columns on BuildShip Tables.  View Full Docs

Furthermore, we've updated our pricing to allow tables access on all plans. Now you can get 2 tables in the free tier to 100 tables on the expert plan allowing you to manage your database as easy as adding rows and columns. Use this data in your workflows, serve it to your apps via APIs, and more!

Duplicate Workflow

Ever wanted to try out a new approach in your workflow without losing your progress? Or perhaps you're eager to experiment with fresh ideas while keeping your current setup intact? With the new Duplicate Workflow feature, you can easily replicate your existing workflow, and make as many tweaks and adjustments as you need.

We're happy to announce the launch of the OpenAI Assistant builder to help you build powerful, custom AI assistants connected to your tools or database.

Here is a 2-minute video introduction:

Creating an AI Assistant with BuildShip is as easy as following these 3 steps:

1. Add the new Assistant node to your workflow. Give it a goal with a prompt and connect with your OpenAI key.

2. Create actions functions for your assistant by connecting with any database or tool

3. Ship the AI Assistant as an API or use our free open-source chatbot widget to plug-and-play on any website or app.

Switch Node: Handling All Cases

We implemented the Switch node to give you greater control over your BuildShip workflow. This core node evaluates expressions, directing your flow based on the result. Execute actions on a case-by-case basis or fallback to the default flow, thus ensuring you cover all possibilities. Explore Full Documentation

Airtable Integration

You can now bring Airtable data into BuildShip, allowing you to construct logic blocks and workflows easily. Perform CRUD operations on Airtable bases triggered by specific events. Imagine creating new records upon user signup, handling stripe payments, or update existing database information with ease. Access Full Documentation

Improved AI Node Generation

We've refined the AI Node Generation experience based on your input. The enhanced design ensures you can generate nodes that precisely fit your envisioned workflows. Simply state your input (X), desired action (Y), and expected output (Z). Provide any additional context, API specs, or code snippets you have on hand.

Introducing Environment Variables 

We've introduced environment variables are a swift way to create and access variables in your workflows, enabling the storage and reuse of values in requests and scripts.

Manage Project Settings Better 

We've revamped the project settings UI for your convenience. Easily access project details, manage team members, adjust billing plan details, view secret keys, handle storage, and export APIs—all from your settings panel.

Community Nodes  Submissions

To initiate the launch of the new Community Library of Nodes and Workflows, we are inviting submissions from our users. Contribute to the open-source community and gain recognition as an expert in your field. Be one of the the first members to get exposure on the upcoming BuildShip Community Library inside the app.

Learn more and submit here: https://lnkd.in/dUu-HWEv

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New Nodes 

Medium & @Dev.to — Blog Publication 

Easily publish your blog posts on Medium or Dev.to. Choose between sharing on your personal profile or contributing to a publication. Input body content using markdown, add tags, and ensure SEO optimization by including the canonical URL or OG Images—all conveniently managed from a single node!

Mailchimp Node – Collect Content Subscribers

This node lets you add a new subscriber to a mailing list. You can use this node in combination with a REST API Call—picture this: every time a user signs up on your website, they will automatically join your mailing list.

OpenAI — Stream Response Node 

Easily send a chat message to OpenAI and stream the response back to the client for certain requests. This ensures quicker, partial results, avoiding delays and enhancing overall user experience.

Save to Library

With the ‘Save to library’ feature you can save your custom nodes to the library and use it multiple times across your workflow to smooth out all the repetitive tasks specific to your product. Moreover, you can make any adjustments to a particular node and save multiple versions of it based on its usage in your workflow. This feature is included in all paid plans.

New Search Experience

Our revamped, user-friendly search UI simplifies node browsing and provides suggestions based on your search terms. Easily filter between featured, new, and utility nodes, or conveniently access your personalized custom library nodes from this new Node Explorer!

Google Workspaces OAuth Nodes

Our Google Workspace Nodes provides a suite of productivity and office tools, including Gmail, Google Drive, Google Docs, Google Sheets, and Google Meet.You can connect and build workflows for them in a single click using OAuth. Full Docs

BuildShip Tables - Visualise your Database

You can now manage, view, and edit your BuildShip Database with a spreadsheet-like UI using our new tables feature. Easily connect your workflows, APIs and start seeing the data flow into the tables. Full Docs

New Trigger Nodes

Firebase Trigger

The Firebase Authenticated User Trigger streamlines API calls to BuildShip directly from your web client. You can use the user's ID token as a secure key for authenticated requests, ensuring the robust security of your application. This guarantees that only authenticated users have the privilege to make requests to your API endpoint. Full Docs

BuildShip Trigger

The BuildShip Trigger helps you launch a BuildShip Workflow from another workflow using the Execute Workflow node. Whether it's within the same project or across different projects, you have the full control. Full Docs

New Nodes

Ofcourse you can generate nodes with AI, but we are always expanding our Nodeverse with pre-built ones.

Microsoft Bing Nodes

Discover the expansive capabilities of our newly integrated Microsoft Bing Nodes. Delve into the depth of Bing's Web Search API using the Search node, sifting through vast web documents, including webpages, images, videos, and news.

Elevate your content quality with Bing Spellcheck, a tool adept at identifying spelling and grammar errors in a given text string. For improved efficiency, the Bing Autosuggest node generates a curated list of suggested queries, elevating the intelligence and efficacy of your searches.

Notion Nodes using OAuth

We've introduced Notion nodes that include "Notion Search By Title" for searching titles across pages, "Fetch Notion Page" for page retrieval via Notion API, and nodes for listing users, creating comments and updating, querying, or retrieving databases.

Github Nodes using OAuth

You can now interact with Github repositories and other services with the Github nodes. Easily create a GitHub branch, initiate a pull request, or fetch details about any GitHub user, issue, or PR right from your fingertips.

OpenAI Assistant API node 🤫

You can now easily build an OpenAI Assistant and integrate with any "Action" using BuildShip. To get started, connect with any database or tool, and create functions using our intuitive drag-and-drop visual builder. Signup using the link here

Organise Your Workflows In Folders

Easily organize your BuildShip workflows by putting them in folders. You can simply drag and drop, reorder, and much more. This feature is available once you've created more than 5 workflows.

Supabase - OAuth Trigger

Simply add this as a trigger and connect to your Supabase account with one click using the oAuth button. You can then start building workflows, APIs, webhooks, scheduled jobs, or backend tasks - completely no-code style visually right from your browser. Full docs here.

Enhanced Expression Editor with Autocomplete

We've added the convenience of context variable and secret name autocompletion directly within the expression editor. This upgrade brings a friendlier touch to your workflow creation process, allowing you to navigate and implement variables and secrets easily.

New Nodes

Ofcourse you can generate nodes with AI, but we are always expanding our Nodeverse with pre-built ones.

Stability AI Nodes

Our Stability AI nodes allow you to easily scale images with a downloadable URL, generate images in base64 format and selectively modify portions using masks or text prompts.

Hugging Face Nodes

Generate images and music based on text, create captions for any image and summarise extensive text with our Hugging Face nodes.

MySQL Nodes

Now you can easily insert, update, and delete rows, execute SQL queries on a specified database, and perform SELECT queries from a MySQL table. View Docs

Quick Node Testing UI

You can now easily cross-check the output of individual nodes with our newly added testing UI. This feature not only aids in resolving node-specific errors but also enhances your overall user experience as you build out your workflow.

New Storage Feature
Easily rename files, upload new ones, create folders, and organize your data with just a few clicks. Simplify your workflow by efficiently managing your storage objects.

GPT Crawler: Scrape Web for powering your GPTs 🦀

We have released a built-in crawler node that uses a headless Chrome with Puppeteer functionality. This makes it easy for you to scrape any heavy duty websites without the need for coding. You can use this node for a variety of use cases, such as building a knowledge base for your GPTs or enriching your database by crawling websites recursively.

Whether you have a static list of URLs or a dynamic queue, this node will help you efficiently scrape websites. Give it a try!

Fixes and improvements 🛠️

Issue with the status indicator on workflows showing undeployed changes has been resolved and will appear when changes are made to the workflow.

Introducing "On Fail" Options for Nodes 🙅

This is reminiscent of an if/else statement but for your nodes. The new on fail option gives you the flexibility to handle failure scenario for every node.

Now, for each node, you can craft subflows that account for all potential edge cases in its processing. For instance, if a payment fails in the Stripe node, you can design a subflow to send an email to the user via SendGrid. Similarly, if OpenAI API is down for some reason, you can redirect to another workflow that uses an alternative texgen using PaLM, Llama2 LLM models in the interim. 

The possibilities are limitless on how you want to handle a failure scenario for a node. The best part? It's all achieved visually without a single line of code.

Let your users bring their own API keys

With BuildShip's bring your own key capability, you can let your end-users easily integrate their own API keys in your apps and workflows. 

Imagine you are building an app where you want to ask your users to pass their OpenAI API key to use a functionality/workflow instead of using yours. This is particularly useful when managing multiple users or clients with distinct API access needs, offering greater flexibility and cost management.

Read the full step-by-step tutorial.

Pinecone Nodes

The Pinecone node that makes it super easy to use Vector Database in no code style. From querying the vectors to creating a new index if it does not already exist or deleting vectors using their id - add them easily to your search and data flows. 

Fixes and improvements 🛠️

Based on your feedback, we have fixed several issues, including logs and the field expression editor. The editor now has an expandable option, allowing for more surface area to edit. In addition, we have made several small improvements to enhance the speed of building and shipping.

Test your entire workflow 💯

You can now easily test your APIs within BuildShip by simply clicking the "Test" button, adding input test values, and verifying the output of your API. With this workflow testing, your nodes will be executed one by one and their functionality validated. 

A successful node is marked green ✅

A failing node has a marked red ❗

Click on these marks to see the individual node-level outputs or error messages. This allows you to perfect your workflow design before deploying to production.

The Skip Node

Skip nodes is a feature that allows you to skip processing specific nodes that are resource or cost intensive when you are trying to build a workflow. The workflow saves the output from a previous request (or tests it once if there's no previous data) and uses that again and again. This avoids unnecessary requests, speeds up testing iterations.

Embrace Version Control

Wondering how your new experiment will fare? Dive in and implement with confidence within your workflow. If things don't pan out, no worries! With our version control feature, you can easily roll back to the original version and travel back in time through your version history.

New Nodes

Ofcourse you can generate nodes with AI, but we are always expanding our Nodeverse with pre-built ones.

Notion Nodes

New nodes for interacting with your Notion workspace are now available. These include "Notion Search By Title" for searching titles across pages, "Fetch Notion Page" for page retrieval via Notion API, and nodes for listing users, creating comments and updating, querying, or retrieving databases.

New OpenAI APIs: GPT-4 Turbo and Vision Models

We've added GPT-4 Turbo models to our text generator nodes for better efficiency. We have also added nodes to support GPT-4 Vision Model to handle image-based queries - with the ability to add single or multiple images.

eSignature for document: SignNow

Our new SignNow "Send E-Docs for Signature" node automates the process of sending and receiving signed documents.

Replicate APIs

We’ve added some of the most popular Replicate models as nodes on BuildShip. Have a look below:

• Face Swap: For the selected existing photo/video stream, replaces the real existing face in the original image with the selected one from another.

• Face Restoration: Practical face restoration algorithm for old photos or AI-generated faces

• Upscale Image: Performs Real-ESRGAN with optional face correction and adjustable upscale

• Answer Image Questions: Answers questions about images using the blip2 Replicate model

• Image Super-Resolution and Restoration: Performs a AI Photorealistic Enhancement and Restoration

• Music Generator: Uses Replicate's music-gen model to generate music based on a user prompt.

  
  

Improvements and Fixes 🛠️

• Upload Files to Storage: BuildShip includes a file storage feature that can be accessed through workflow nodes in the "BuildShip File Storage" section. We have recently made an improvement that allows you to manage this file storage from the project settings section, as well as upload files directly from the user interface.
  
  

• Automated Node Output Schema Generator: We've added a new feature that lets you automatically generate the output schema from test responses. You no longer have to define the output schema manually as you can now use the "Update Output Schema" button. When creating a node from scratch and testing it, you'll be prompted to update the Output Schema based on the test output.
  
  

• Required vs Optional Field indicator: We have made it super clear which fields are required and optional with color indicators to give you a visual cue with red and yellow for mandatory fields that are missing values.
  
  

• Node Search is now collapsible: Based on your feedback, we have now made the node search panel on the left collapsible to give you more room on the canvas to play and build.

Node Testing Made Easy 🧪

Our testing process combines the best of no-code and low-code. You can test each and every node in your workflow easily by simply clicking the “</>” button on any node. This shows you the Node Editor which has the full logic of the node and how it works both in no-code form format as well as the code is accessible that you can tweak any way you like.

To test a node in the Node Editor, simply add test values to the Node on the left side and click the Test button to verify the output. We are working on making the experience of building, testing, and deploying super easy, and have more coming soon.

Eleven Labs - AI Voice Generation

You now have multiple ways to generate voice in your workflows. Last week you got the OpenAI Text to Speech node and this week you get Eleven Labs Voice Generation node. Create lifelike speech with the most advanced AI voice model ever. Clone any voice or generate speech using the 35+ high-quality voice options that Eleven Labs provides out-of-the-box. Instantly convert text to speech in any language using this node and use it in easily in your apps.

The Nodes Package Manager

If you're creating nodes with AI, writing custom code, or making tweaks with low-code, enhance your experience even further by specifiying which NPM / node package version you are using in your workflow nodes. Locate this option for each node under the "info details" section.

Create projects in 10+ locations for GDPR compliance

BuildShip enables you to select a specific location where your data and workflows exclusively operate. This ensures a single-tenant experience, maximizing security for your data and for your projects to be GDPR compliant.

Text to Speech API

OpenAI's latest Text to Speech API offers a faster and more cost-effective solution for realizing realistic voice-based applications. Avoid waiting for your no-code platform to catch up; with BuildShip, you can stay ahead and integrate any new AI model, even if it was launched within the last 24 hours. Check out our quick how-to video!

Zero Downtimes

You can now build a fallback option for your workflows by catching failures, so your product functions without any downtime when the APIs you are building are down themselves - allowing to fail gracefully or provide temporary alternate APIs.

Notes for your workflows

You can now easily add handy notes to your workflows. Use it to write detailed workflow descriptions, add pointers for your team members, and include any helpful information that can help you or others collaborate and get their best work done.

No-code Output Editor

Every node in BuildShip is fully customizable. Now you can use the new No-code output editor to structure the output of your nodes. If the nodes are AI-generated, then these output fields are automatically populated - to provide you with insight into the response structure. You can even add a field and then ask AI to edit the node to populate that field with a particular value. Finally, you can access these output fields in subsequent nodes in your workflow with ease.

Reordering Nodes Functionality

We've introduced drag-and-drop reordering functionality. Did you accidentally create a node where it doesn’t belong and want to change the order, do it easily now to rearrange nodes by dragging across different levels.

Efficient Testing with Pre-filled Values in Node Fields

When you click </> node editor, you get interface for testing the node. Here in the node editor you are able to supply the node with test values and run it to ensure it works as expected. Now, this is made even better - with the test values being pre-filled. Give it a try to test your nodes, tweak as you need and save when you are happy with the node.

OpenAPI Spec Generator

You can now download the OpenAPI specs of the workflows created on BuildShip and easily use them on any front-end app builder platform. Find it under your project settings and you can download the API specifications in YAML or JSON formats.

Rowy Trigger + BuildShip Extension

Our brand new Rowy Trigger allows you to run a BuildShip workflow in response to events from your Rowy Project. Automate tasks easily when data in your Firestore database changes. Read the step-by-step guide on it here.

Stripe Webhooks Trigger with Event Selection

Our newly introduced Stripe Webhooks Trigger makes it super easy for you to run workflows when specific events/actions occur on your Stripe account. For example: when a new subscriber makes a payment, delays, cancels, and more.

Further, you can store relevant data in your database, send emails via Resend or SendGrid, and stay in control of your Stripe workflows.

Improved Context Menu

We've made the process of passing values from one node to another easy. Visual navigation and search capabilities enable easy selection of nested values from incoming inputs for your workflows and APIs.

Manage your files better

Introducing our new Storage UI, a convenient way to manage the files, images and assets created during your workflow building process. BuildShip comes with a built-in cloud storage to serve assets in your apps with high availability and CDN. Better yet, your data is stored in the region of your choice during project creation - making them GDPR compliant for EU regions.

Resend Email API x No-Code

You can now get started with email workflows and automation for your apps with our latest Resend integration. Schedule email delivery, create messages using OpenAI, and automate responses in your app workflows: for example when users sign up, a data point changes etc. Video

Telegram Bot Trigger 

You can now create workflows that get triggered when you receive a request/message from Telegram. Super handy to create bots for your business. Read more.

Support Feature

If you ever encounter challenges or need assistance while working with BuildShip, we are here and dedicated to helping you.

Just click the 'Support' button from the bottom-left corner of the screen. This will open up a form where you can submit your message (including screenshots and video links if you wish to include any).

Alternatively, if you're having trouble with a specific workflow, you can include a copy of it in your support message (using the checkbox at the bottom of the form) while working on a specific workflow.

Custom Script Node

We've introduced a new script node that allows you to write any custom code to block in JavaScript or TypeScript in your workflows easily. Whether you prefer AI-generated nodes where code is auto-generated or directly prefer using a script node - you have to freedom to choose and build flexibly.

Built-in Zero Config Instant Firestore Database

BuildShip now offers two ways to interact with your firebase database. You can either use BuildShip's Built-in Firestore Database or connect to your own Firebase project. 👉 Read the full docs

Core Nodes Capabilities

We've introduced powerful core nodes such as branch, loop, parallel. Nest a branch node within a loop or easily add and nest multiple parallel nodes. Effortlessly construct intricate ideas, providing a visualization that's as intuitive as coding but significantly easier to grasp.

Supabase and Postgres Nodes Integration

You can now easily perform Create, Read, Update, and Delete (CRUD) operations on your database in your backend workflows. 

Connect to your Firebase project

We released pre-defined nodes for Firestore integration, making it easy to interact with Firebase services within your workflows. Read docs.

Send emails with Sendgrid

Streamline your product operations with Sendgrid by using emails in your workflows, from welcoming your users with an onboarding email to receiving alerts via email for support form submissions from your app.

Today we are launching BuildShip - a low-code visual backend builder powered by AI 🎉

What can you do with BuildShip?

BuildShip is a fully managed experience to instantly build and ship your app's complete backend logic scalably. You can create:

• APIs

  • Trigger via any frontend app builder (FlutterFlow, Bubble, Webflow, Framer, BravoStudio, Toddle, …)

• Scheduled jobs

• Tasks that trigger on third-party app webhook events

  • Stripe

  • Twilio

  • Telegram

  • Whatsapp

• Database CRUD

  • Firestore

  • Postgres

  • Supabase and more

• Combine AI models

Features

• AI-Generated Nodes: Choose from hundreds of pre-built nodes to build your workflows. And if anything is missing, don’t wait for us to release an integration! Simply ask AI what you want and it gives you a custom workflow node generated just for you. This will change the way you build your backend!

• Combine the power of any AI model: BuildShip offers multimodal AI support, covering text, images, and video! From OpenAI nodes text generation to Vector embedding, generate lifelike videos using Sythesia, custom images using Stable Diffusion, or literally use any AI model from platforms like Replicate, Hugging Face, etc., to build your most powerful ideas by combining them.

• Use any API or 1M+ NPM packages: You can use any NPM package in the workflow node or ask Ask AI to use an NPM package and generate a node for you.

• Code made accessible, with a powerful code editor: BuildShip is not a black box, you can open the code of any node, tweak it any way you want, and make it your own.

• Version Control: Revert changes easily

• Logging: Realtime logging to debug effortlessly

• Testing: Focused node editor and testing mode

• One click deploy, instantly: When ready, hit “ship” and get your backend workflow deployed instantly!

• Templates to start fast: We have templates featuring chatbots, music generators, reverse image search using Google Vision API, Vector DB search, HTML to PDF converter, and more!

What's next

💬 Give BuildShip a try, and share feedback on our Discord community of low-code/no-code builders. We are here to support.

📆 We will have weekly live streams and office hours, signup here to get notified.

📚 Read the complete documentation here

🛣️ Follow our roadmap and share request or cast votes.

We are committed to bringing you the best way to build your product’s backend in a low-code way and are shipping fast based on your feedback 🚀