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Render raises $80M in Series C financing

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Re: Render raises $80M in Series C financing

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Post by solarkraft »

thundergolfer wrote: post #55

> we’ve surpassed 2 million developers ... 100,000+ developers who sign up for Render every month There's something like 2 million software engineers in the entire USA. There's no way their penetration is significant (>25%) in the USA, so where are these developers coming in from? India, China, LATAM?

I for one am German (and deploying using the free tier, which probably inflates the number). I can easily imagine the free tier being more popular im lower-income countries, there are a bunch of stories about indians being especially savy about free offerings.

Re: Render raises $80M in Series C financing

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Post by Tankenstein »

anurag wrote: post #18

(I'm Render's founder) What should we build next, HN?

Bring more must-have parts of the stack into the offering:

- Object storage

- Metrics (managed prometheus + grafana? or preferrably your own lightweight version, like your log system, which mostly gets the job done)

Re: Render raises $80M in Series C financing

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Post by AutistiCoder »

tyre wrote: post #8

I 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…

Same.

In 3-5 sentences, what specifically differentiates Render from, say, AWS Lambda?

For example, how much money would I save from making the switch?

Re: Render raises $80M in Series C financing

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Post by AutistiCoder »

ignoramous wrote: post #24
netswift wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I've found Azure's serverless hosting decently easy to work with, too.
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