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Review my startup, mist.io - mobile friendly cloud management/monitoring

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Post by unweb » Thu, May 17, 2012, 1:37 PM UTC

Review my startup, mist.io - mobile friendly cloud management/monitoring
mist.io

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#2

Post by CharlesPal » Thu, May 17, 2012, 1:50 PM UTC

I'd like to see more on the main page about pricing. You mentioned "Both the core service and the monitoring agent will be Free Software" but is there a charge for the service?

On a side note... This is a great idea, I am the founder of http://ratemystartup.com - If you would like to submit your startup there I should be able to get you up on the site quickly.

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Post by latch » Thu, May 17, 2012, 1:51 PM UTC

Beautiful website. Good job explaining what it is.

I'd put a screenshot (or an approximate mockup) of the app inside the tablet, rather than the mist.io logo. Seems like a wasted opportunity of "a picture's worth a thousand words."

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Post by unweb » Thu, May 17, 2012, 1:52 PM UTC

CharlesPal wrote: post #2

I'd like to see more on the main page about pricing. You mentioned "Both the core service and the monitoring agent will be Free Software" but is there a charge for the service? On a side note... This is a great idea, I am the founder of http://ratemystartup.com - If you would like to submit your startup there I should be able to get you up on the site quickly.

Thank you. We will definitely submit it.

There will be a small monthly charge per VM after enabling monitoring & alerting. We're still working on the pricing policy.

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Post by dmix » Thu, May 17, 2012, 1:57 PM UTC

Don't really do much sys admin stuff anymore.

Re the copywriting: "Mobile friendly web app" sounds awkward.

Just say "straight from your mobile phone" or something similar.

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Post by akh » Thu, May 17, 2012, 2:04 PM UTC

Looks pretty cool, are you using some cloud management platform's APIs underneath (like scalr, rightscale, enstratus etc)? Does it only support VMs? or can I attach my EBS volumes when I launch a new VM as well?

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Post by there » Thu, May 17, 2012, 2:05 PM UTC

Not much to review. Where is the demo or at least some screenshots?

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Post by toddmorey » Thu, May 17, 2012, 2:06 PM UTC

My opinion: you've asked for feedback on this a bit too early. It's really hard to review your startup before the product, pricing, or even a demo is available. I do think CloudKick and more recently Cloudability have proved there's some merit to this idea. How is Mist.io different? How is it better?

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, May 17, 2012, 2:06 PM UTC

dmix wrote: post #5

Don't really do much sys admin stuff anymore. Re the copywriting: "Mobile friendly web app" sounds awkward. Just say "straight from your mobile phone" or something similar.

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Post by mshafrir » Thu, May 17, 2012, 2:07 PM UTC

FYI, I run Chrome with the Better Pop Up Blocker extension, and when I first loaded your site I got nothing but a gray screen. I see "Uncaught TypeError: Property 'scrollTo' of object [object Window] is not a function" in the developer console.