Netlify Raises $12M from A16Z • Hacker News Board

Re: Netlify Raises $12M from A16Z

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Post by andruby » Thu, Aug 10, 2017, 9:52 AM UTC

goshx wrote: post #54

alberth wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Please note I am truly rooting for you guys to make the web a better place. But it's not just the blog I linked to above that's slow, it's even the blog post of this very HN post. https://gtmetrix.com/reports/www.netlify.com/KdCXA8bB 54 http request (26 of which are JS) just seems kind of nuts for a blog post. Not trying to make you guys look bad. But clearly asset merging and image optimization are needed.

Honestly curious, was it slow on your browser? The entire website is ridiculously fast for me.

I am abroad on a slow 3G connection while nsurlsessiond is eating my bandwidth and the site was extremely slow (took more than a minute to load), while HN loads in 2~3s.

I'm sure the site is fast on a regular connection though.

Re: Netlify Raises $12M from A16Z

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Post by sandGorgon » Thu, Aug 10, 2017, 2:19 PM UTC

bobfunk wrote: post #84

sandGorgon wrote: post #82

We use netlify for quite sometime with Hugo and we loved it. Today, we use firebase hosting which is significantly cheaper and comes with its own CDN and free Google SSL. But I don't get CI from my git repo - I have to compile and push. Which I personally prefer. But kudos to Netlify - I hope they realise that the value is not in CDN or CI or ssl certificates . But rather in building a CMS for static websites.

Have you checked the pricing recently? I think it's likely to have changed quite dramatically since after you switched to Firebase.

Well the first priced tier is 45$ per month. It's many times what we end up paying to firebase.

Not that I'm saying it's a bad deal - it's great for people on WordPress or Drupal.

Re: Netlify Raises $12M from A16Z

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Post by _fool » Thu, Aug 10, 2017, 9:25 PM UTC

late2part wrote: post #68

mipmap04 wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To be fair, 14.4MB of that is images (I don't know why some of them are that large, however). Does their offering specifically have something related to image optimization / scaling (I'm unfamiliar with Netlify)?

only 600kb of text on a landing page? That's about the same size as _Walden_ by Thoreau. Seems large. https://www.gutenberg.org/files/205/205-0.txt

This is definitely the most flattering insult we received in this thread ;)

Re: Netlify Raises $12M from A16Z

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Post by _fool » Fri, Aug 11, 2017, 2:24 AM UTC

sandGorgon wrote: post #92

bobfunk wrote: post #84

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Have you checked the pricing recently? I think it's likely to have changed quite dramatically since after you switched to Firebase.

Well the first priced tier is 45$ per month. It's many times what we end up paying to firebase. Not that I'm saying it's a bad deal - it's great for people on WordPress or Drupal.

Do you need any paid features? The only things you get for $45 are:

- simple password protection (basic auth or single-password-no-login)

- small division of power - not everyone can delete the site and invite contributors.

Everything else is included for free.

Re: Netlify Raises $12M from A16Z

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Post by _fool » Fri, Aug 11, 2017, 2:26 AM UTC

jcsnv wrote: post #24

This is interesting, I just tested it out and its pretty flawless. For a standard React FE app, why use this vs Heroku vs S3?

probably the best reason is: we have our CDN spread over 4 different cloud providers. AWS and Digital Ocean could both go down (completely - though we're in several different data centers for each) and it would keep on keepin' on.

Re: Netlify Raises $12M from A16Z

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Post by marktangotango » Sun, Aug 13, 2017, 8:09 AM UTC

biot wrote: post #57

marktangotango wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There are a few things you can do from static sites; authorization services, database as a service, backend as a service, etc. I find people find theses things appealing in the abstract yet rarely build anything with them. I built a dbaas that failed myself. For example, what dynamic functionality would you like to add to your dynamic site?

I'm thinking of explicitly non-static sites, enabling SaaS offerings. I'd like to see the ease of use and functionality for static sites extended across the full stack.

I'm working on something along these, lines. If you or anyone else is interested in early access, please contact me (email in profile).