How do I configure my own stack if I need to? For instance, I would like to use Ruby 2.0 and Rails 4.0 instead of Ruby 1.9 and Rails 3.2?
regardless, I loved the Idea - It's like Dropbox for my apps. :)
Show HN: Kite - Create and share Django and Rails applications in seconds
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Re: Show HN: Kite - Create and share Django and Rails applications in seconds
#22Looks like it could be a useful tool. Just a picky, grammar-related thing: the word "setup" in "Setup Rails, Django, databases, search engines & more in seconds." should be "set up", two words, since you're using it as a verb.
Re: Show HN: Kite - Create and share Django and Rails applications in seconds
#23I really like this as a solution for spinning up quick cloud apps and splash pages. I was wondering which other environments you are supporting at the moment because I saw Rails, Django and Node.js and quite a few people I had take a look at it where I work asked the same question.
Re: Show HN: Kite - Create and share Django and Rails applications in seconds
#24Love this. As a novice developer, I think I spend 90% of my time dealing with problems I have because of the OS I'm running or other things I have installed.
A solution like this is the perfect environment for someone who is trying to learn to program.
Re: Show HN: Kite - Create and share Django and Rails applications in seconds
#25Very cool! I want to know what is the payment plan of Kite? Thanks.
Re: Show HN: Kite - Create and share Django and Rails applications in seconds
#26I assume this will be free for the duration of the beta, and I assume you haven't decided (or aren't ready to publish) what pricing and resource quotas will be like?
Some friendly advice: From the homepage, it seems that the focus is on apps in development. This is well and good, but I think your marketing should also mention that you're great for hosting apps in production too. And if you're not great at that, yet, you should try to improve -- for the good and simple reason that, at the end of the day, it's products, not prototypes, that generate revenue for your developer-customers and allow them to pay you.
Re: Show HN: Kite - Create and share Django and Rails applications in seconds
#27Interesting.
I did notice fan noise increasing steadily in the background. Hopefully those issues will be sorted out before release or are caused by the screen casting software. At the very least, its presence indicates an honest demonstration.
Re: Show HN: Kite - Create and share Django and Rails applications in seconds
#28Looks slick, but how is this different from just running "django-admin.py startproject mysite"? When developing something serious, you typically want to match the stack you will be deploying on. So far, the two easiest (not necessarily wisest) options have been Google App Engine and Heroku, with latter being my choice of late due it running on AWS and "closeness" to S3 and DynamoDB.
Sorry for the delay in answering and thanks for the comment. This is a good question. Our video is indeed starting a django project for you - we take a step further and let you do that in a click without having to set up a virtualenv, and it's all hosted. This is the basics, but the idea is to move your development onto a hosted server that is the same or much closer to your prod environment. Ideally, this hosted env…
Thank you for the clarification. It appears my confusion stems from me doing similar workflows, just with existing tools - when I tinker with either GAE or Heroku, I deploy nearly continuously, which achieves the same results, but on the exact infrastructure that the final version will be deployed on.
I definitely see the benefit for those not utilizing such practice already.