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Re: Launch HN: Exams, tasks, K8, eCommerce, cell sites, health, data quality, travel

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Post by sidcool »

NWMatherson wrote: post #26
sidcool wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Congrats on launching! One question about containiq though which I could not figure out with the skimming of the link. How it compares to (istio + prometheus + grafana)?

Thanks for reading! Our goal was to create an out of the box solution that didn't require on-going maintenance. Another goal was to make something that all engineers on the team would know how to use. The amount of 1/2 broken prometheus/grafana setups we see is crazy. From a feature perspective there is some overlap (ex pod/node CPU and memory). But we have features that you can't get from the solutions you mentioned…

Thanks for the reply. Is it available to self host? Or self manage in public cloud?

Re: Launch HN: Exams, tasks, K8, eCommerce, cell sites, health, data quality, travel

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Post by dangrossman »

Robrechtlr wrote: post #9

Hi YC, We’re Darrell, Jibril, and Robrecht, the co-founders of Appollo ( https://www.tryappollo.com/ ). Appollo is a single API to launch your app to all eCommerce platforms. Appollo enables you to create 1 app with our APIs and launch it to all the eCommerce platforms while also letting you maintain it as 1 app. Previously, you had to create and maintain an app separately for Shopify, WooCommerce, Magento, BigCommer…

You have a pricing page but there's not a single dollar sign on it. I have no idea what this costs.

I also took a quick look at your API documentation, and I couldn't figure out how I'd use this.

I run several popular Shopify and WooCommerce apps right now. Their primary integration point with the store is via injecting a script tag into all pages, using Shopify's ScriptTag API or WordPress's wp_head hook.

I couldn't find how I'd do this using Apollo.

Re: Launch HN: Exams, tasks, K8, eCommerce, cell sites, health, data quality, travel

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Post by jacobn »

Robrechtlr wrote: post #9

Hi YC, We’re Darrell, Jibril, and Robrecht, the co-founders of Appollo ( https://www.tryappollo.com/ ). Appollo is a single API to launch your app to all eCommerce platforms. Appollo enables you to create 1 app with our APIs and launch it to all the eCommerce platforms while also letting you maintain it as 1 app. Previously, you had to create and maintain an app separately for Shopify, WooCommerce, Magento, BigCommer…

Hi, I run clippingmagic.com (a SaaS to clean & prep ecommerce product shots) so this could be a great fit for us - we've talked many times about integrating with the platforms, but...

A few comments & questions:

1. https://tryapollo.com fails to provide a secure connection?

2. Viewing https://docs.tryappollo.com/docs/introduction on mobile leads to the sidebar getting hidden - may want to copy your ToC into the How To Use This Doc section to not make it look like you have three doc pages total ;)

3. https://docs.tryappollo.com/reference#fetch-products - do I provide a "cursor" or a "page"?

4. The "media" object type is not separately documented. Based on the "Create a product" form it's {src:string, type:string} - what are the valid string values for "type"?

5. When I update a product, do I have to include all fields, or can I include only those I wish to update?

6. How do I append another product photo? How do I insert one? How do I remove one?

7. https://docs.tryappollo.com/reference#fetch-variant goes to the wrong spot on the page, it goes to Collections API section.

8. Ditto all questions for products also for variants (page vs cursor, media & how to do narrow updates to it).

9. https://www.tryappollo.com/pricing - your pricing page has as of right now no clear indication of your intended business model. Charge a fraction of revenue? Fixed $x/install? Something else?

10. Continuation of service: building an app is a non-trivial commitment. What happens if things don't work out for appollo?

Thanks!

Re: Launch HN: Exams, tasks, K8, eCommerce, cell sites, health, data quality, travel

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Post by 101008 »

fnfilho wrote: post #23
101008 wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Congrats on launching, it is always nice to see more startups in LA. The first question that came to my mind seeing your landing is that it's everything in Brazilian Portuguese. Your market now is only BR? Because the rest of the countries in LA speaks Spanish (with a few colony exceptions). Are you planning to open to the rest of the countries? Have you already customers in Chile, Argentina, Mexico? Thanks!

hluska is right, you can use the globe at the top to change languages. I have to say this is not intuitive and we actually purchased new domains for other countries yesterday and we will have dedicated websites for a lot of countries coming this weekend. But yes, we do have customers in Brazil where we were born, but Chile, Argentina, Mexico, Colombia and Peru too!

Thanks for answering! I noticed that after my posted my comment - the dedicated websites for each country (or at least language) sounds great. Congrats again!

Re: Launch HN: Exams, tasks, K8, eCommerce, cell sites, health, data quality, travel

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Post by gmontanola »

fnfilho wrote: post #2

Hi HN, we're Bianca and Fernando, founders of Portão 3 ( https://portao3.com.br/ ). We help companies in LATAM (Latin America) with their corporate travel, expenses and payments. We traveled a lot to visit clients in our previous companies, and realized that the corporate travel market had a lot to evolve technologically. Latin America didn’t have a startup helping companies and work travelers with a real all-in-one…

Congratz! It's really nice to see fellow Brazilians featured here.

I'm very skeptical about most startups business models but looks like you folks check two important boxes of my imaginary list:

[x] solving a real problem

[x] plenty of room to grow (generalist b2b)

I hope to see more of Portão 3! Best of luck for you :)

Re: Launch HN: Exams, tasks, K8, eCommerce, cell sites, health, data quality, travel

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Post by debarshri »

NWMatherson wrote: post #26
sidcool wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Congrats on launching! One question about containiq though which I could not figure out with the skimming of the link. How it compares to (istio + prometheus + grafana)?

Thanks for reading! Our goal was to create an out of the box solution that didn't require on-going maintenance. Another goal was to make something that all engineers on the team would know how to use. The amount of 1/2 broken prometheus/grafana setups we see is crazy. From a feature perspective there is some overlap (ex pod/node CPU and memory). But we have features that you can't get from the solutions you mentioned…

Half broken setup is a people problem. Prometheus and grafana is integrations is actually pretty solid and quite simple if you follow the docs [1].

If you are out there to replace existing monitoring stack like ELK, Prometheus-grafana, victoria metrics, i think it will be an uphill battle proving your value because there is high switching cost.

Also, In most of the organisations, core resources that people care about are well monitored. Just my 2 cents.

[1] https://grafana.com/grafana/plugins/grafana-kubernetes-app/

Re: Launch HN: Exams, tasks, K8, eCommerce, cell sites, health, data quality, travel

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Post by jacobn »

jacobn wrote: post #44
Robrechtlr wrote: post #9

Hi YC, We’re Darrell, Jibril, and Robrecht, the co-founders of Appollo ( https://www.tryappollo.com/ ). Appollo is a single API to launch your app to all eCommerce platforms. Appollo enables you to create 1 app with our APIs and launch it to all the eCommerce platforms while also letting you maintain it as 1 app. Previously, you had to create and maintain an app separately for Shopify, WooCommerce, Magento, BigCommer…

Hi, I run clippingmagic.com (a SaaS to clean & prep ecommerce product shots) so this could be a great fit for us - we've talked many times about integrating with the platforms, but... A few comments & questions: 1. https://tryapollo.com fails to provide a secure connection? 2. Viewing https://docs.tryappollo.com/docs/introduction on mobile leads to the sidebar getting hidden - may want to copy your ToC into the How T…

I keep misspelling your domain, https://tryappollo.com/ (two 'p's, your site) fails to provide a secure connection, https://tryapollo.com/ (single 'p') works fine but is a completely different website.

Re: Launch HN: Exams, tasks, K8, eCommerce, cell sites, health, data quality, travel

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Post by kgraves »

fuzzer37 wrote: post #14
Robrechtlr wrote: post #9

Hi YC, We’re Darrell, Jibril, and Robrecht, the co-founders of Appollo ( https://www.tryappollo.com/ ). Appollo is a single API to launch your app to all eCommerce platforms. Appollo enables you to create 1 app with our APIs and launch it to all the eCommerce platforms while also letting you maintain it as 1 app. Previously, you had to create and maintain an app separately for Shopify, WooCommerce, Magento, BigCommer…

Doesn't the name kind of clash with some already existing, relatively well known software? I was sort of confused when I saw the name of your company. https://www.apollographql.com/docs/react/

this is the first time I have heard of 'apollo graphql', doesn't seem to be well known really.

Re: Launch HN: Exams, tasks, K8, eCommerce, cell sites, health, data quality, travel

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Post by NWMatherson »

sidcool wrote: post #42
NWMatherson wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for reading! Our goal was to create an out of the box solution that didn't require on-going maintenance. Another goal was to make something that all engineers on the team would know how to use. The amount of 1/2 broken prometheus/grafana setups we see is crazy. From a feature perspective there is some overlap (ex pod/node CPU and memory). But we have features that you can't get from the solutions you mentioned…

Thanks for the reply. Is it available to self host? Or self manage in public cloud?

Currently no, not yet at least.
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