Looks good, enjoyed the demo. Fwiw the name Lemon might get a few raised eyebrows here in the UK. Its slang for a dud/ broken thing..
Oh wow thanks!! totally did not realize that - despite myself living in London) lots to learn
Show HN: Lemon – Alternative UI for AWS
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Re: Show HN: Lemon – Alternative UI for AWS
#22Looks good, enjoyed the demo. Fwiw the name Lemon might get a few raised eyebrows here in the UK. Its slang for a dud/ broken thing..
Oh wow thanks!! totally did not realize that - despite myself living in London) lots to learn
There is this whole thing called ‘Lemon Law’ to cover what is a lemon and what protection consumers get for their goods if they turn out to be lemons.
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#23I really don't know what must happen before I give AWS CRUD credentials to a third party. However, that something didn't happen by reading this website and its value proposition. I'm saying this as, hopefully, source for inspiration. The amount of trust a third party must inspire before anyone (like me at least?) dares to delegate operation must be overwhelming.
Thanks! This is super helpful What'd be your thoughts on the following options: - IAM role account-to-account (no credentials sharing) - Self-hosted webapp that runs in your account - Mac app so that creds never ever leave your laptop
Make that a Wndows-compatible app and I'm sold.
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#24I really don't know what must happen before I give AWS CRUD credentials to a third party. However, that something didn't happen by reading this website and its value proposition. I'm saying this as, hopefully, source for inspiration. The amount of trust a third party must inspire before anyone (like me at least?) dares to delegate operation must be overwhelming.
Agreed, I'm not a fan of AWS's online console and its UI/UX, but my distaste isn't enough to login to AWS through another site. I'd rather navigate by CLI/API before I do that. Furthermore, I'm not really a fan of these closed-source available-for-pricing, enhancement products. They last for a few months in pre-release form, gauge that they don't have the customer numbers to justify their revenue, and then cease deve…
Totally agreed. Still kudos to the Lemon team in trying to improve the overall AWS experience.
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#25This isn't a good idea.
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#26This isn't a good idea.
why?
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#27This looks cool! I spend half the day in terraform and AWS and I’m looking forward to trying this out later today.
Regardless of how that goes, it’s really nice to see a project that addresses this specific area. Way to go!
The AWS console is (at least for the popular services and API endpoints) super effective.
That said, when you’re deploying a project that has components that span almost a dozen services in AWS that can quickly become a dozen tabs just to assess the state of the project. Not very fun - looking forward to seeing how this handles that.
Re: Show HN: Lemon – Alternative UI for AWS
#28This looks cool! I spend half the day in terraform and AWS and I’m looking forward to trying this out later today. Regardless of how that goes, it’s really nice to see a project that addresses this specific area. Way to go! The AWS console is (at least for the popular services and API endpoints) super effective. That said, when you’re deploying a project that has components that span almost a dozen services in AWS th…
thank you!! let us know how it goes for you!
There's a chat icon at the bottom right
or drop me a line at igor@uselemon.io
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#29I really don't know what must happen before I give AWS CRUD credentials to a third party. However, that something didn't happen by reading this website and its value proposition. I'm saying this as, hopefully, source for inspiration. The amount of trust a third party must inspire before anyone (like me at least?) dares to delegate operation must be overwhelming.
Agreed, I'm not a fan of AWS's online console and its UI/UX, but my distaste isn't enough to login to AWS through another site. I'd rather navigate by CLI/API before I do that. Furthermore, I'm not really a fan of these closed-source available-for-pricing, enhancement products. They last for a few months in pre-release form, gauge that they don't have the customer numbers to justify their revenue, and then cease deve…
Thanks! I couldn't agree with your second point though. You're basically dismissing the entire category of paid-for SaaS developer tools - some of which are clearly very successful. CircleCI, Datadog, Doppler to name a few. Ignoring all of them and only using open source is a very understandable personal choice, but saying that their entire model is broken seems to be a bit of an overstatement.
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#30This isn't a good idea.
why?
So a few things. First, I, like many here read your title and took a cursory look at your website, and thought you were literally making an alternative AWS console, which would be a bad idea for many reasons.
But I just looked at your site again, and you're completely misrepresenting yourself by calling yourself an alternative UI for AWS. Youre more like a Kubernetes PaaS on AWS.
There are many similar products, so I don't see a clear differentiation and your product doesn't very clean, but you could maybe possibly have something there.
But your main problem is you're completely mis-selling yourself (or perhaps you're not completely sure what you're building).