Paragon Connect (YC W20) – Plaid for SaaS Apps
We're Brandon and Ishmael, co-founders of Paragon (https://useparagon.com). We're building a platform to makes it easy to integrate your product with other SaaS apps like Salesforce / HubSpot / Slack. To share a little backstory, we started with a slightly different product (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22813834) and decided to build Paragon Connect after hearing so many customer requests for this specific use case. If you’re a B2B software company, your customers have probably asked “does your product integrate with Salesforce / Slack /…
Paragon Connect (YC W20) – Plaid for SaaS Apps launched on May 5, 2021 with 38 votes, #1,187 of 3,505 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches.
In plain words
Paragon Connect is a platform that enables B2B software companies to integrate their products with popular SaaS applications like Salesforce, HubSpot, and Slack. Rather than building integrations in-house, companies can use Paragon to handle API management, authentication, token handling, and user-facing integration interfaces. It is designed for software makers who need to quickly add integrations their customers request without the months of engineering work typically required.
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We're Brandon and Ishmael, co-founders of Paragon (https://useparagon.com). We're building a platform to makes it easy to integrate your product with other SaaS apps like Salesforce / HubSpot / Slack. To share a little backstory, we started with a slightly different product…
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