Show HN: Kite - Start building a web app in one click • Hacker News Board

We've included as much cross-platform code as possible in the client so we can start supporting Windows ASAP. I can't give an exact date but we're working hard on it.

Re: Show HN: Kite - Start building a web app in one click

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Post by desireco42 » Thu, Oct 17, 2013, 3:24 PM UTC

Looks really good. I started skeptical, but I really like what you did there.

It would be helpful if there was some pricing page so I know what I am getting myself into.

Re: Show HN: Kite - Start building a web app in one click

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Post by stevenbrianhall » Thu, Oct 17, 2013, 3:32 PM UTC

I've downloaded the client, added an app (Django, Rails, and Node). When I tried to view the page, it 404'd and then promptly walked me through SSHing in and starting the server process.

I'm impressed.

Later in the day I'll dive a little deeper, but between frictionless "add an app" process to the way it feels like a local development environment - I think you've got a winner here.

Now, when can I pay you for this service? :)

Re: Show HN: Kite - Start building a web app in one click

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Post by jeffdm » Thu, Oct 17, 2013, 3:37 PM UTC

desireco42 wrote: post #4

Looks really good. I started skeptical, but I really like what you did there. It would be helpful if there was some pricing page so I know what I am getting myself into.

Thanks for checking it out - there's a pricing page once you log in. Sorry that it's not very transparent right away - we'll get that fixed up.

We give away one hosted dev environment for free and charge 10$/month per app you want to build with it afterwards. The pricing amount is definitely not fixed - we just started our beta and wanted to hear thoughts from the HN community regarding the whole concept / experience.

Re: Show HN: Kite - Start building a web app in one click

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Post by desireco42 » Thu, Oct 17, 2013, 3:41 PM UTC

jeffdm wrote: post #6

desireco42 wrote: post #4

Looks really good. I started skeptical, but I really like what you did there. It would be helpful if there was some pricing page so I know what I am getting myself into.

Thanks for checking it out - there's a pricing page once you log in. Sorry that it's not very transparent right away - we'll get that fixed up. We give away one hosted dev environment for free and charge 10$/month per app you want to build with it afterwards. The pricing amount is definitely not fixed - we just started our beta and wanted to hear thoughts from the HN community regarding the whole concept / experience…

Hi Jeff, it is really well hidden :). Other than that, I really don't have any other complaints, in fact, this is something I was considered doing, so that I can develop on same machine no matter what. I think you did it fairly elegant solution.

Re: Show HN: Kite - Start building a web app in one click

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Post by iancarroll » Thu, Oct 17, 2013, 3:45 PM UTC

Been using this for a week now and I can say it's amazing. The Ghost deploy function is a winner as well.

Re: Show HN: Kite - Start building a web app in one click

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Post by mchiang » Thu, Oct 17, 2013, 3:52 PM UTC

stevenbrianhall wrote: post #5

I've downloaded the client, added an app (Django, Rails, and Node). When I tried to view the page, it 404'd and then promptly walked me through SSHing in and starting the server process. I'm impressed. Later in the day I'll dive a little deeper, but between frictionless "add an app" process to the way it feels like a local development environment - I think you've got a winner here. Now, when can I pay you for this se…

Hey! Mike here from Kite.

We are currently giving away one free app per account. If you would like more, you can pay $10/month per extra app. (My Account -> Payment).

We're still early and are working out the pricing details.

Re: Show HN: Kite - Start building a web app in one click

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Post by jeffdm » Thu, Oct 17, 2013, 3:53 PM UTC

iancarroll wrote: post #8

Been using this for a week now and I can say it's amazing. The Ghost deploy function is a winner as well.

We really, really love Ghost. We even made this: https://runkite.com/ghost

We originally designed Kite for django/rails/node/static html. But then Ghost was released.

Devs can use Kite to host a Ghost blog but also edit its underlying code without having to worry about setting it up locally and then pushing it somewhere else. We're really hoping that this makes contributing to the Ghost codebase & designing themes way easier.