I’ve been pretty vocal about using http://kamal-deploy.org/ more and more, and Render less. Kamal really is fantastic, PaaS niceties w/o the PaaS tax.
Fan of these PaaS-like tools on BYO servers. See also Coolify, Dokploy. Best of both worlds.
Render raises $80M in Series C financing
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Re: Render raises $80M in Series C financing
#22I gotta say, reading this I have no idea what Render actually does or how it's different from AWS or Heroku. They say they've threaded the needle between the two to provide a new way of deploying infra, but what that is…who knows! Naturally a paragraph on AI. At some point companies lose the ability to say, "We are X. It used to be that Y, which had issues of A, B, C. Instead, X does Z, so $USERS can now D, E, F." Wh…
Hello fellow Xtripe! This blog post wasn't meant to focus on differentiation, but you might find this useful: https://render.com/docs/render-vs-heroku-comparison
It's not helping me. All I understand is that you provide some stuff for Docker, static web sites, and databases. That's good, but it seems very specific. So specific that, as a former devops, I don't understand why you could be useful to me or why I would need your help.
Re: Render raises $80M in Series C financing
#23I gotta say, reading this I have no idea what Render actually does or how it's different from AWS or Heroku. They say they've threaded the needle between the two to provide a new way of deploying infra, but what that is…who knows! Naturally a paragraph on AI. At some point companies lose the ability to say, "We are X. It used to be that Y, which had issues of A, B, C. Instead, X does Z, so $USERS can now D, E, F." Wh…
I really love Render.
AWS is too low level for me. Render helps us spin up new applications in a few clicks. Kind of like Vercel for backend.
Might just be a skill issue but I can definitely see the value from using the product.
Re: Render raises $80M in Series C financing
#24I gotta say, reading this I have no idea what Render actually does or how it's different from AWS or Heroku. They say they've threaded the needle between the two to provide a new way of deploying infra, but what that is…who knows! Naturally a paragraph on AI. At some point companies lose the ability to say, "We are X. It used to be that Y, which had issues of A, B, C. Instead, X does Z, so $USERS can now D, E, F." Wh…
I really love Render. AWS is too low level for me. Render helps us spin up new applications in a few clicks. Kind of like Vercel for backend. Might just be a skill issue but I can definitely see the value from using the product.
> AWS is too low level for me
We had good success with Lightsail; but then moved to Fly.io & the Cloudflare platform and spend ~zero time on sre & devops.
Re: Render raises $80M in Series C financing
#25As an end customer these things area always mixed feelings.
I'd rather hear that the company I use is profitable and sustainable.
Re: Render raises $80M in Series C financing
#26(I'm Render's founder) What should we build next, HN?
Congrats on the raise and building something people love!
If I could make a suggestion - make it clear you are the founder of Render instead of using these parentheses “(Render founder)”!
Re: Render raises $80M in Series C financing
#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hello fellow Xtripe! This blog post wasn't meant to focus on differentiation, but you might find this useful: https://render.com/docs/render-vs-heroku-comparison
It's not helping me. All I understand is that you provide some stuff for Docker, static web sites, and databases. That's good, but it seems very specific. So specific that, as a former devops, I don't understand why you could be useful to me or why I would need your help.
We need to improve our product marketing! Render focuses exclusively on application engineers who need to run things in the cloud without worrying about devops; this also means we don't focus on the needs of devops engineers.
Re: Render raises $80M in Series C financing
#28(I'm Render's founder) What should we build next, HN?
Buy Replicate [0].
Re: Render raises $80M in Series C financing
#29Nice.
...I remember when they won TC Startup battlefield a couple of years back.
Re: Render raises $80M in Series C financing
#30Congratulations to the team at Render. I'm not a user but good to see some competition in the cloud space. DigitalOcean was the last great developer focused effort IMO. Things at a higher level helped various communities but nothing has really attempted to compete with cloud providers themselves. So good on you and keep going.