BuildWithHQ
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Dynamic fields, views, menus, modules, and user experiences

BuildWithHQ uses metadata-driven fields, views, menus, modules, workflows, and user types to customize a SaaS without hard-coding every variation.

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Dynamic fields, views, menus, modules, and user experiences

Customization model

The runtime model includes dynamic field definitions/values, module views, navigation menus/items, modules, workflows, and user experience/role metadata.

UserTypes

UserTypes describe application experiences such as Admin, Customer, Employee, Contractor, Dispatcher, or Field Tech. They help shape portal/navigation behavior. Authorization must still be enforced in the backend/security layer.

Views

Module views can describe table, detail, calendar, kanban, dashboard, form, or custom presentations.

Goal

The application should vary through metadata and saved schema where practical, avoiding source-code forks for normal customer differences.

Related knowledge

Server-driven JSON presentationBuildWithHQ represents pages and much application behavior as versioned JSON/schema interpreted by a shared runtime, enabling many application variations from a common codebase.Role-aware in-context developer modeBuildWithHQ can let developers edit a SaaS page in context, persist JSON layout changes, and simulate different user roles while keeping backend authorization authoritative.
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