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Show HN: Elastic Byte – Managed DevOps and cloud infrastructure as a service
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Re: Show HN: Elastic Byte – Managed DevOps and cloud infrastructure as a service
#22Founder of Elastic Byte here. Happy to field any questions or feedback.
I would guess a fair amount of your potential sales would be from organizations that want to move things to the cloud. You might consider adding some information for potential clients looking for things like "AWS migration" or "Moving CI to the Cloud", etc. That may also be at odds with your plans. That sort of activity usually has a big hump of hours up front that scales down when a migration is done. Your biggest p…
Thanks for the feedback. Migrations to the cloud is indeed a vertical we see as in demand. I made a note to create a page dedicated to migrations on our site.
Re: Show HN: Elastic Byte – Managed DevOps and cloud infrastructure as a service
#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well, the general IT term include services like printers, faxes, office phone systems, WiFi, etc. I wanted to clarify we specifically focus on cloud infrastructure.
It's not "as a service", it's "as a contractor"
If it helps you can think of it as a hybrid, something like "productized contracting". These folks are in the same space but use a different pricing structure:
https://www.rackaid.com/pricing/
It is an interesting business that I think lots of small and medium sized businesses would use. I've been exploring ideas for a more granular "productized contracting" offering myself.
Re: Show HN: Elastic Byte – Managed DevOps and cloud infrastructure as a service
#24From my understanding of DevOps, it's one of those things that is impossibly difficult to outsource, just like Product Management. On surface the output is merely specifications, and product sketches but there are plenty of things including foreseeing execution, customer development, and measurement that needs to be covered to add real value. Can you really implement processes, see response of team towards them, enfo…
You bring up great points, and I think it really depends on the organization and how far along they are. Typically we like to focus on smaller companies (let's say handfuls of employees), heads down in product development. Usually for them, outsourcing infrastructure scale, uptime, performance, and security makes sense. Second, we've found another good vertical are design and website agencies. Almost always they don'…
Targeting small teams seems to be a good idea. I can concur that there are many teams for whom setting anything on servers can be an excruciating experience. But, in my opinion, your offering is too broad. When should a team call you? Should they rely completely on you to set their servers? Should they contact you when something gets broke? What happens when you are not around? What happens if you (in extremely unlikely scenario) 'rm -rf' some important stuff?
But best of luck with your venture!
Re: Show HN: Elastic Byte – Managed DevOps and cloud infrastructure as a service
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Re: Show HN: Elastic Byte – Managed DevOps and cloud infrastructure as a service
#26Founder of Elastic Byte here. Happy to field any questions or feedback.
Seems you and I have similar business ideas. I've been thinking of doing this for http://slashdeploy.com. I wish you the best of luck. I'd love to stay in contact with you to talk business and potentially collaborate. Best of luck friend! My email is on my profile :)
Re: Show HN: Elastic Byte – Managed DevOps and cloud infrastructure as a service
#27From my understanding of DevOps, it's one of those things that is impossibly difficult to outsource, just like Product Management. On surface the output is merely specifications, and product sketches but there are plenty of things including foreseeing execution, customer development, and measurement that needs to be covered to add real value. Can you really implement processes, see response of team towards them, enfo…
You bring up great points, and I think it really depends on the organization and how far along they are. Typically we like to focus on smaller companies (let's say handfuls of employees), heads down in product development. Usually for them, outsourcing infrastructure scale, uptime, performance, and security makes sense. Second, we've found another good vertical are design and website agencies. Almost always they don'…
That makes sense, I commented on similar earlier. Are you also getting the use case of an outsourced "on call" or companies in the "just launched a month ago" category? I would think these would also be good fits in addition to the smaller but established companies like you mentioned design shops etc.
How have you been generating leads? Word of mouth?
Congrats on your launch by the way. I wish you success.