HyperDev – Developer Playground for Full-Stack Web Apps • Hacker News Board

Cool tech, fun toy! I hope it is successful. I think Joel should focus on it's toy-like nature, and potential as a learning tool, rather than trying to build this into a production grade tool.

I spent years building tools for this market between professional devs and non-developers. (Backlift.com and then Brace.io) It's really tough. Most people learning to code are trying to gain transferrable skills that can help them land a job. For them, learning git is a fruitful tangent along the path to shipping. Those that aren't interested in building those transferrable skills probably don't self-identify as developers. Making developer tools for non-developers is tough.

Re: HyperDev – Developer Playground for Full-Stack Web Apps

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Post by benologist » Tue, May 31, 2016, 7:33 PM UTC

Yahivin wrote: post #4

We're on the front page of some major sites so things are blowing up a little bit, but we should have it sorted out soon! Thanks for your patience! - A frantic HyperDev developer

Your site also didn't work the two times I tried to use it after it was first on HN. It has to be a lot more reliable.

Re: HyperDev – Developer Playground for Full-Stack Web Apps

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Post by g4nt1 » Tue, May 31, 2016, 7:35 PM UTC

The names looks alot like HyperDex (http://hyperdex.org/). I found it weird that the HyperDex DB was pivoting to full stacked Web Apps.

Re: HyperDev – Developer Playground for Full-Stack Web Apps

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Post by marcuskaz » Tue, May 31, 2016, 7:39 PM UTC

Pretty cool, the idea looks similar to `now` by Zeit[1]

Platform as a service has gone from click to get a server that needs configuring (AWS), to get a server already configured (Heroku), and now to write code and get URL without even needing to think about servers

[1]: https://zeit.co/

Re: HyperDev – Developer Playground for Full-Stack Web Apps

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Post by 83457 » Tue, May 31, 2016, 7:40 PM UTC

"Oh, and it’s free."

Re: HyperDev – Developer Playground for Full-Stack Web Apps

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Post by jkarneges » Tue, May 31, 2016, 7:46 PM UTC

marcuskaz wrote: post #8

Pretty cool, the idea looks similar to `now` by Zeit[1] Platform as a service has gone from click to get a server that needs configuring (AWS), to get a server already configured (Heroku), and now to write code and get URL without even needing to think about servers [1]: https://zeit.co/

Yeah the timing is interesting. Given the close release dates, I don't think there'd have been time for one to inspire the other, yet now we have both. Are there any other services like this? Maybe it's a new trend.