Heroku: Announcing the Add-on Provider Program • Hacker News Board

Re: Heroku: Announcing the Add-on Provider Program

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Post by judofyr » Tue, Sep 14, 2010, 7:42 PM UTC

pvh wrote: post #6

judofyr wrote: post #4

I'm waiting for the recursive add-on: Someone creates an add-on, hosts it on Heroku and then enables the add-on in the add-on app.

I'm already building an addon as a Heroku app. Of course, I work for Heroku, so it probably doesn't count.

You're missing an important detail: Start using the add-on in the Heroku app. Since the add-on provides feature x, you can simply depend on it and remove feature x from the Heroku app :-)

Re: Heroku: Announcing the Add-on Provider Program

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Post by pvh » Tue, Sep 14, 2010, 7:46 PM UTC

judofyr wrote: post #11

pvh wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm already building an addon as a Heroku app. Of course, I work for Heroku, so it probably doesn't count.

You're missing an important detail: Start using the add-on in the Heroku app. Since the add-on provides feature x, you can simply depend on it and remove feature x from the Heroku app :-)

Way ahead of you. The tricky part is being able to bootstrap if the service crashes. It's pretty neat being able to basically provide artificial respiration for your web app in an emergency.

Re: Heroku: Announcing the Add-on Provider Program

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Post by PStamatiou » Tue, Sep 14, 2010, 8:37 PM UTC

Notifo definitely needs to get on this..

Re: Heroku: Announcing the Add-on Provider Program

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Post by grep » Tue, Sep 14, 2010, 10:28 PM UTC

mark_l_watson wrote: post #5

I didn't see (from a quick reading of the docs) how developers get paid: via Heroku, or a direct charge to end users?

70% for you, 30% for Heroku.

Re: Heroku: Announcing the Add-on Provider Program

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Post by tfe » Wed, Sep 15, 2010, 12:44 AM UTC

Is anyone else stunned at how thorough and complete the documentation and support materials are for this launch?

I was blown away. Great job guys!

Re: Heroku: Announcing the Add-on Provider Program

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Post by cmelbye » Wed, Sep 15, 2010, 2:11 AM UTC

tfe wrote: post #15

Is anyone else stunned at how thorough and complete the documentation and support materials are for this launch? I was blown away. Great job guys!

Definitely. I was just playing with kensa, which is a tool that they wrote for automatically testing your add-on. It checks to make sure everything is working properly. This includes your settings manifest, provisioning services, deprovisioning services, making sure the add-on is secure, etc.

Re: Heroku: Announcing the Add-on Provider Program

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Post by wrs » Wed, Sep 15, 2010, 2:36 AM UTC

I'm kind of disappointed at the "neutral marketplace" philosophy. I'd prefer a "curated marketplace" where the Herokuans could be opinionated about what works best (in general, and with Heroku). Metrics are great but I actually value the opinion of the people who built and run Heroku more. (Of course their opinion could be a metric, but it didn't sound like it in the announcement.)