Echobind

Speaker 0: Hi. My name's Michael Yared. I'm the co founder and CEO of EchoBind, a product consultancy and digital agency. Our employees reside in 16 different states across the US and we work with companies looking to build ambitious software. We have deep experience in healthcare, media and financial services.

Speaker 1: Annex is an e commerce platform for document storage warehouses, allowing customers to pick and choose the best warehouses for their needs. When we're talking about document warehouses, imagine warehouses filled with boxes of documents, paper, film, anything like that that you might see in a movie or a court drama. We use Directus to power both the marketing content for the Nx platform, but also provide a way to provide dynamic layouts, marketing blurbs, and engineering specific needs. So being able to reorder, being able to create new content on the fly or create new types of content on the fly. We had an interesting challenge with this particular customer where they have multiple sites, multiple different environments that needed to be able to sync up everything back onto their production website.

Directus, the flexibility that it provides, allowed us to easily sync up both their marketing site, their staging environment, and their production environments, and move data and content back and forth as we needed to throughout the entire process.

Speaker 2: Hope Media Group is a Christian media conglomerate that fosters faith and community through a whole bunch of websites, radio stations, and events that they put on. And they wanted to recreate their website experience to make it so that they could set up new websites faster and share content between those websites. So we created a Directus template, which they could use to spin up new websites very quickly just by launching a new Directus instance. This template connects to a parent instance, which is able to keep track of all of the children, all of the other sites. They can push content to the parent, and then the parent can choose which of the websites they want to send the content down to so they can easily share between the different websites.

We also included a block builder for creating pages based on Directus' agent c OS template so that they can slot in dynamic content sections onto whichever page that they want. And since we're building this using Next. Js and React server components, we're able to fetch the data that we need from Directus, pull down the client components that are needed for interactivity so it's very efficient. And Next. Js automatically caches all of the data that it pulls, so the websites load really fast.

We can also invalidate those caches and get the freshest data possible from Directus by using Directus triggers to, let Next. Js know whenever anything's changed.

Speaker 0: And at EchoBind, we love using Directus for a number of reasons. It allows our team to move incredibly quickly, and we can usually see an app come to life the same day we start. Directus also allows us to integrate with any stack we're working on. It's perfect because we can use Directus with any of our clients and that flexibility is so helpful. It gives us the ability to morph a project as our client's needs change.

In a few recent projects, we've used it to configure a mobile app on the fly, power a company intranet, and it even serves as the primary interface for an electric vehicle database. It's that versatility and speed that makes Directus an invaluable part of our toolkit. If you enjoyed this episode and wanna learn more, best thing to do is to get in touch with us through our website. Visit echobind.com, click contact, and we'll be in touch really quickly. Our team is always happy to chat about your business challenges.