Congrats to the Render team. One of my favorite products.
Render raises $80M in Series C financing
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Re: Render raises $80M in Series C financing
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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.
It also means that when an application reaches a certain maturity or complexity, they have to leave platforms like Render to clouds where they can do the things they need to operate with efficiency. There is a tradeoff point. Platforms like Render are small team efficient, clouds are organization efficient
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#33Re: Render raises $80M in Series C financing
#34I 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…
We use Render for our startup and I think it’s major value add is the simple deployment story. We had a database go down for really strange reasons, and the render technical support was incredibly helpful to work with and resolved the issue in hours.
The major cloud providers are quite intimidating to work with and frankly we have much bigger problems to spend our time on than (potentially) saving a couple grand a month. Heroku was nice but it’s been abandoned for years. Fly is a similar competitor but they seem to have monthly outages. We find Render simple, boring and dependable - for us that’s worth the premium they charge.
Re: Render raises $80M in Series C financing
#35I 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…
Good writing is hard, but it's also very easy to just regurgitate patterns of nonsense buzzwords you see everywhere else. I've seen many people hear that and just nod their head. Sadly it convinces some.
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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.
nothing that you can't do in AWS but generally Render tries to do things in less clicks and have less advanced clicks for you to accidentally press. Thats pretty much it nothing fancy.
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#37(I'm Render's founder) What should we build next, HN?
We currently use Render, Wasabi, and BunnyCDN. It’s a great combo. If you offered a low-price object store with a CDN layer, that would be swank.
Re: Render raises $80M in Series C financing
#38I 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…
There's some anecdotal accounts that, through the mismanagement of its acquirer, Heroku is slowly dying after the acquisition. If Render so much as provides the Heroku experience at its peak, that would already be valuable, and many of us would already be happy.
Of course, if Render directly says, "We're going to be like Heroku before it went off the rails," that's not compelling to media or investors. So, instead, they've got to fluff it up a bit with marketing buzz. Throwing in some AI won't hurt, either.
Re: Render raises $80M in Series C financing
#39(I'm Render's founder) What should we build next, HN?
It’s probably low margin but it’d be nice to see object storage. We host almost everything on render, and use digital ocean for storing assets. It leaves a ton to be desired - I wish it had simple object versioning, backups, even a nicer search tool would be awesome.
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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.
It also means that when an application reaches a certain maturity or complexity, they have to leave platforms like Render to clouds where they can do the things they need to operate with efficiency. There is a tradeoff point. Platforms like Render are small team efficient, clouds are organization efficient
This is the narrative we disagree with most people on and are focused on disproving: multiple unicorns have started and stayed on Render, and our platform continues to add capabilities as their needs become more complex.