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Re: My Startup - A node.js cloud hosting platform

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Post by uniclaude »

dreyfiz wrote: post #22

Your writing takes all the sex out of it-that doesn't give me a lot of confidence in your product. Heroku's copy is balls to the wall, yours is putting me to sleep. I'll give you a critique based on my own prejudices, for whatever it's worth: Typos: "severs"; "your" should be "you're". Also, you have your own capitalization scheme for "Node.js Camp", perhaps for emphasis? "Meet up" is two words, not one. Tone/confide…

While I agree with the most of what you say, I don't think that "node.js cloud hosting platform" is that wrong. In fact, when I opened the page, it didn't take me a second before I understood what it was about.

Now, to OP, I would also suggest to change the "dedicated servers" icon. Who exactly in your target sees a laptop when thinking about servers in a cloud ? It doesn't make things clear to me.

About the design, I think it lacks of whitespace in the middle (perhaps you were trying to create a cloud shape). Apart from that, I like the color scheme and the typography on the page.

Re: My Startup - A node.js cloud hosting platform

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Post by puredemo »

jpcx01 wrote: post #18
barfoomoo wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Isn't it a little strange selling a company for $212M that is essentially just reselling EC2 with a better UI? Maybe it's just me..

Re: My Startup - A node.js cloud hosting platform

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Post by maraksquires »

robinduckett wrote: post #26
Klonoar wrote: post #17

It'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 hate to be a buzzkill but none of these seem to have launched yet, are you in nodejitsu's private beta?

robinduckett -

Haven't seen you online in a while, let's get you into the beta! I sent you a message on github, hit me back.

Re: My Startup - A node.js cloud hosting platform

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Post by dreyfiz »

uniclaude wrote: post #31
dreyfiz wrote: post #22

Your writing takes all the sex out of it-that doesn't give me a lot of confidence in your product. Heroku's copy is balls to the wall, yours is putting me to sleep. I'll give you a critique based on my own prejudices, for whatever it's worth: Typos: "severs"; "your" should be "you're". Also, you have your own capitalization scheme for "Node.js Camp", perhaps for emphasis? "Meet up" is two words, not one. Tone/confide…

While I agree with the most of what you say, I don't think that "node.js cloud hosting platform" is that wrong. In fact, when I opened the page, it didn't take me a second before I understood what it was about. Now, to OP, I would also suggest to change the "dedicated servers" icon. Who exactly in your target sees a laptop when thinking about servers in a cloud ? It doesn't make things clear to me. About the design,…

The concept of "node.js cloud hosting platform" is already conveyed by the company name, domain name, and logo, so the tagline should say something else—that's why I compared it to Heroku. Heroku's name and domain don't tell you what you're getting, and yet their tagline doesn't just describe itself, it also characterizes itself. It's not just a "ruby platform". It's "rock-solid". They're not just offering to handle your deployment and scaling. They're saying you can deploy and scale "with confidence".
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