Show HN: An easier way to deploy web apps in node, ruby, python, and go(unubo.com)
unubo.com
Show HN: An easier way to deploy web apps in node, ruby, python, and go
http://unubo.com
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Hi, I've just tried Onubo and I'm both impressed and disappointed.
Impressed because it seems very simple to use. A lot simpler than faffing around with WSGI and nginx.
Disappointed because I couldn't get my app to work, and the error messages were unhelpful. Also there appears to be no help text anywhere.
I think the issue is my requirements.txt is in my root directory, but my Python files are in the /app/ directory below it.
Could you have a look at it? my email is [email protected] and my app is vr2.
Impressed because it seems very simple to use. A lot simpler than faffing around with WSGI and nginx.
Disappointed because I couldn't get my app to work, and the error messages were unhelpful. Also there appears to be no help text anywhere.
I think the issue is my requirements.txt is in my root directory, but my Python files are in the /app/ directory below it.
Could you have a look at it? my email is [email protected] and my app is vr2.
The demo looks great. Nice UI as well!
I built something similar a few years ago but we ran into people only wanting to run their prototypes for free. It was hard for us to convince people to use for PROD. How will you tackle this?
I built something similar a few years ago but we ran into people only wanting to run their prototypes for free. It was hard for us to convince people to use for PROD. How will you tackle this?
Thank you! People need time to trust you, to host their stuff in prod. We’ll hope to win your trust by listening, iterating, and going for the marathon, not the sprint. Time will serve as a trust builder.
What was your most interesting lesson as you look at all the other competitors (typically big ones like AWS) in your market?
Within the cloud hosting space, you can find solutions on either end of the spectrum. AWS and DigitalOcean are powerful, but you're on your own in managing them. Things like Netlify and Now (Zeit) are relatively simple to use, but offer a limited feature set.
We sit comfortably in the middle, balancing power and simplicity.
We sit comfortably in the middle, balancing power and simplicity.
Looks great! What other languages/frameworks do you plan on adding in the future?
We’re going by demand with this. So far most people have requested PHP, so we’re leaning towards that as next language for now.
What databases do you support?
AWS is a headache. DigitalOcean is great, but you’re on your own in managing it. Heroku gets expensive, fast. Now (Zeit) is serverless only. Netlify only supports static sites.
There are more solutions on the market of course, but they all leave us wanting more.
We drew up an extensive wish list, and went about creating it ourselves.
Unubo Cloud exists to simplify the process of deploying web applications. We want you to focus on creating, whilst we take care of everything else.
This is a starting point, and we have a lot planned for the future.