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It's been a while since I touched anything serverless, but it looks like Seed supports incremental deployments, which was a major pain point when I last worked with the Serverless Framework (an open source library for deploying Lambdas, one of the first ones.) Nice job team!
Weird to see "folks" everywhere in the text. Why not "people"? Or "developers"? I'm sure it's not on purpose, but it made me think about Social Justice language war: https://newdiscourses.com/tftw-folks/ (I even had to switch to my anonymous HN account to post this.) I would prefer to think about this (very cool!) startup instead.
Since I'm now going to get asked wtf I'm doing mucking with people's text:
I help YC startups with their Launch HNs. Mainly I coach them to take out anything that sounds like marketing or PR, and to add things that the community tends to find interesting. Usually we'll agree on a final draft by email, but sometimes we skip the fine-tuning step, and in that case I sometimes do it live, because I'm a compulsive editor. Part of the intention is to sand off sharp edges that might get things snagged in offtopicness, so I'm glad to see your comment as a sort of natural experiment demonstrating that this is useful :)
By the way, I'm happy to help anyone else with this too. That is, if any of you want to present your startup or some other major piece of work to HN, in the style of this post and https://news.ycombinator.com/launches, you can email a draft to hn@ycombinator.com and I'll try to look it over and give you feedback. The only catch is that I can't always reply quickly, and my worst case latency is abominable because the HN inbox undergoes periodic overwhelm. Still, it does mostly work. If you want to do this, you can look at the advice I give YC startups here: https://news.ycombinator.com/yli.html. The logistical aspects only apply to YC startups, but the communication aspects are more important and they are universal.
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At least "folks" is a real word. "Folx" is unquestionably the result of the language war: https://newdiscourses.com/tftw-folx/
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There is cost. It's hard enough to communicate as it is, even without weird unpronounceable terms certain academics come up with.
> language that is inclusive
Unfortunately, "inclusive" is among those weird terms, now with double, almost opposite, meaning:
Weird to see "folks" everywhere in the text. Why not "people"? Or "developers"? I'm sure it's not on purpose, but it made me think about Social Justice language war: https://newdiscourses.com/tftw-folks/ (I even had to switch to my anonymous HN account to post this.) I would prefer to think about this (very cool!) startup instead.
Just in case anyone's wondering, I made some fine-grained edits to the text above after it was posted, and that included some de-folkification. This was before I saw your comment. Since I'm now going to get asked wtf I'm doing mucking with people's text: I help YC startups with their Launch HNs. Mainly I coach them to take out anything that sounds like marketing or PR, and to add things that the community tends to fi…
Is there a way to let you know about similar sharp edges, in order to avoid writing offtopic comments like mine?
Looks great. For someone who's not taken the plunge into Serverless yet, how would the costs compare to the more traditional options of hosting an app? i.e. a Rails/React app on Heroku Of course 'it depends', but roughly speaking?
Yeah it does depend. But the numbers that get touted are at around 70-80%. But here are the caveats. If your usage patterns are 24/7 and very predictable. You can design your infrastructure to be cheaper than the Lambda. However for most other cases, including us at Seed (we use serverless extensively). It's so much more cheaper that we wouldn't do it any other way. If you have a hobby project, it'll be in the free t…
Weird to see "folks" everywhere in the text. Why not "people"? Or "developers"? I'm sure it's not on purpose, but it made me think about Social Justice language war: https://newdiscourses.com/tftw-folks/ (I even had to switch to my anonymous HN account to post this.) I would prefer to think about this (very cool!) startup instead.
Just in case anyone's wondering, I made some fine-grained edits to the text above after it was posted, and that included some de-folkification. This was before I saw your comment. Since I'm now going to get asked wtf I'm doing mucking with people's text: I help YC startups with their Launch HNs. Mainly I coach them to take out anything that sounds like marketing or PR, and to add things that the community tends to fi…
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> it literally costs you nothing There is cost. It's hard enough to communicate as it is, even without weird unpronounceable terms certain academics come up with. > language that is inclusive Unfortunately, "inclusive" is among those weird terms, now with double, almost opposite, meaning: https://newdiscourses.com/tftw-inclusion/
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Just in case anyone's wondering, I made some fine-grained edits to the text above after it was posted, and that included some de-folkification. This was before I saw your comment. Since I'm now going to get asked wtf I'm doing mucking with people's text: I help YC startups with their Launch HNs. Mainly I coach them to take out anything that sounds like marketing or PR, and to add things that the community tends to fi…
Thank you dang! I appreciate your service, even after having my comment above to be flagged :) Is there a way to let you know about similar sharp edges, in order to avoid writing offtopic comments like mine?
This looks great! I've been using Serverless Framework for a project and have not been too satisfied with the experience. Could you explain the integration with that framework a little more? I see the two options for services with Seed are the Serverless Framework or Serverless Stack (which I have no experience with, but looks like a compelling alternative). Is Seed just compatible with existing Serverless Framework…
It doesn't connect to your Serverless Pro (their SaaS offering) account. Serverless Pro offers some similar features to Seed but most of our users just use Seed.
If you want to deploy using Seed, while viewing logs or metrics on Serverless Pro, you'll need to follow those docs you mentioned to create an access key (https://seed.run/docs/integrating-with-serverless-pro). We should clarify the integration in our docs to make it less confusing.
I hope that makes sense!