altCore: Digital Services, for all

joaomorais

I have developed some interesting software with Konnect Kit, complex things to reward users, run email marketing campaigns, manage digital content, and to extract data from movies with AI.
Today I want to expose all this to you. Yet, today is still to come, but the work just started.
With altCore you will be able to access all these Digital Services, connect with different integrations and data sources, create automations, and implement out-of-the-box features on your platform.
Besides all the cool features, altCore only charges based on your usage. No subscriptions, and no commitments.
This is more than just creating a new product, but the centralisation of 5 years of code produced to be taken advantage by projects like Cosmo Crafter, or BEWITT.
Follow this thread for more updates on altCore.

joaomorais

My idea with this is to be able to perform complex tasks in a seamless way.
I have a couple of ideas in mind.

Structured Flows:

Think of automations that are “programmed”, where the user selects and configures what happens next, how, when, and where. For instance, every time I have a user registering and confirming his account, I want to send a welcoming email through my MailChimp account to the user.
A structured approach, would require me to configure a new event hook for the creation of users, select the MailChimp integration from my integrations, choose one action, and map the necessary fields (if not retrieve more) of my user to send to MailChimp’s API.

Instruction Flows:

It goes slightly more unstructured. For the same use-case, I’d have to setup the event hook, but instead of adding and configuring my integration, I’d just instruct: “send the welcoming email from MailChimp to the new user”. Oki dokes, automation complete.

But what if your goal is to achieve something more complex? Let’s say you want to help your friends finding a new job of their liking and skill set. Well, look at that, we have services that will help you do just that. Setup an automation where you use one of our integrations or available datasets for job opportunities, upload your CV’s pdf to one of your connected buckets (or create a altCore bucket), adopt an AI integration, or use our own AI data parsers to extract relevant information from the CV, and use that data to search the datasets, whenever there are matches, send the list by email.

Ok, so, now, either a user makes a structured setup, or an instructed one.

The coding journey begins… let’s do flows.

joaomorais

So, I’d like to share some of the looks. Yesterday night and the past weekend were quite productive.

The landing page looks like this:

…while the connections page, like this:

What do you think?

joaomorais

I have finished the setup of the MySQL and Rest Data Sources and the SMTP for the Mail Servers. It checks the connection details and if succeeds, will turn the verified to true (currently a "1" on the UI, but the goal is to display a more colourful button with the statuses)

Next step, the "Manage" page, for each of these newly set connections. There you'll be able to see the data that you're consuming from the data source, or trigger specific actions (like on the SMTP to send a test email).

To be continued.

joaomorais

Due to other priorities (such as Cosmo Crafter), currently altCore is stopped.
I do still wish to migrate all the services that I've developed to a central repository, but it will have to wait. Meanwhile, some of the functionality I wanted available on altCore I started bringing it to Cosmo Crafter, such as the automation to post on Instagram.