Does this mean you'll be doing an offer HN? ;) We've been getting spoiled lately. I definitely want to give you a guys a try, see how you stack up against Joyent's node hosting.
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#12Is it scary to think that Heroku is aiming at Node.js? I'm not sure if I'd be scared or if it'd convince me I'm going in the right direction.
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#13Does this mean you'll be doing an offer HN? ;) We've been getting spoiled lately. I definitely want to give you a guys a try, see how you stack up against Joyent's node hosting.
Yeap, we will have a private beta with HN peps getting priority.
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#14Why do you think you got rejected? It seems like a really good idea.
Doesn't it seem a bit "me too"ish? Seems like a super crowded market with extremely capable competitors. Heroku was able to sneak in since they were the first company to offer a service like this for rails. With Joyent's amazing no.de platform, I can't imagine any business deciding to base their infrastructure on a tool that a couple developers just started and doesn't yet have stable funding or a proven business.
Just my 2 cents. The landing page looks great. Hope they can pull through.
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#15Why do you think you got rejected? It seems like a really good idea.
Doesn't it seem a bit "me too"ish? Seems like a super crowded market with extremely capable competitors. Heroku was able to sneak in since they were the first company to offer a service like this for rails. With Joyent's amazing no.de platform, I can't imagine any business deciding to base their infrastructure on a tool that a couple developers just started and doesn't yet have stable funding or a proven business. Ju…
Not an RoR user but wasn't Engine Yard there before Heroku? I am assuming Engine Yard and Heroku offer something similar. I might be wrong.
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#16I signed up, I look forward to giving your service a try in the future!
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#17It's a nice page design and all, but on top of the solutions provided by Heroku and Joyent, there already exists NodeJitsu, which seems pretty solid. Are you offering anything different here? Seems like a bit of "me too" syndrome.
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#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
Doesn't it seem a bit "me too"ish? Seems like a super crowded market with extremely capable competitors. Heroku was able to sneak in since they were the first company to offer a service like this for rails. With Joyent's amazing no.de platform, I can't imagine any business deciding to base their infrastructure on a tool that a couple developers just started and doesn't yet have stable funding or a proven business. Ju…
Not an RoR user but wasn't Engine Yard there before Heroku? I am assuming Engine Yard and Heroku offer something similar. I might be wrong.
EngineYard was doing uber expensive fully managed rails hosting at the time Heroku go started. Wasn't till over a year after Heroku launched that EY launched their alternative (Solo->Cloud->??). Pretty good tools, but fairly different than Heroku. They focus on managing EC2 instances instead of Heroku's "Dynos" (small abstracted chunks of easily scalable server resources).
To me EY seems like a much better version of Linode + install scripts that are targeted to Ruby users. Heroku seems to me more like Google's AppEngine, except much more expensive and without the autoscaling.
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#19It's a nice page design and all, but on top of the solutions provided by Heroku and Joyent, there already exists NodeJitsu, which seems pretty solid. Are you offering anything different here? Seems like a bit of "me too" syndrome. http://nodejitsu.com/
I'll chime in here although I might be a bit biased ( co-founder of Nodejitsu).
I'm always glad to see more attention to node.js, but it's a bit discouraging to see something like this with no substance to back it up.
The Nodejitsu team has been working on our node.js platform as a service for a while now, and we've released a bunch of open-source software back to the community along the way.
I'd rather go with a trusted source than a company who struggles with basic git knowledge.
http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs/browse_thread/thread/5...
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#20Like the landing page - but you've got a typo!
Under the Dedicated Cloud Servers headline: "Scale severs up and down on the fly!" Should of course be "servers", not "severs."
Good luck with the new endeavor!