Congratulations on the work! I’ve been doing startups for +10 years but also worked in big companies. This is pretty interesting, how do we contact you?
One thing I really wish I had learned from a book is how to adapt the architecture to the current stage the company is in (something like this likely exists but IDK).
For instance, the “brittleness” of your systems must follow the “certainty” the company has on product-market fit. In other words, if the % of changing code is high then it should be cheap to change it. I could explain this in much more detail, and I have seen countless under-engineering and over-engineering issues in practice because people lack this mental model.
We're just trying hard to iterate on our messaging and HN helps us a lot with that, and we're not spamming either. The upvotes mechanism serves that purpose, the post quickly goes down if the link does not resonate with the community.
I'll try to add different interesting content next time however.
You're absolutely right, we are working on providing some examples soon enough. We have two clients using it in production but their websites are behind a login wall, so I'd have to share screenshots.
What kinds of website would you be curious to see if we can handle?
Thanks a lot! We're really trying to make a tool for people to create JAMstack apps on, so we're basically just charging on per value on our abstractions and just enough to cover the cost for AWS.
If you're a coder and are willing to do an user testing interview, we'd love to chat and demo our features!
You can see my email in my profile. Cheers
Awesome feedback, perfect. We're working on templates and onboarding! Currently we only do web apps (no mobile apps), we will adjust our copy based on your response. Thank you!
1) It is in fact possible but as noted previously, most people still wouldn't feel comfortable running their core business long-term on this kind of tool. However, no one worries about running their business on AWS and in fact our infrastructure is on top of them (like Heroku). So we need to grow a bit more before people are OK with that :)
2) Retool is tailored at internal tools, so you can't quite customize the UX as you'd want for something that is touching end users. Besides, it's quite expensive for the MVP use case because they price per user (we don't, our pricing page is coming soon).
Thank you so much for the detailed feedback, this was flying under our radar. We just went with Google for simplicity because it was easier to implement and didn't realize lots of users would dislike it.
We have now implemented email & password and should add anonymous login soon!
We're noticing lots of people are disturbed by this and we're really sorry! We have implemented Email & Password auth since then, please give it another try :)
We're about to put it online, we will have a freemium tier with a cap on performance/data/etc. Then a basic plan for $6/mo with less cap, and so on. Pro = $84/mo
* all plans have unlimited editors
* all plans have unlimited end users
You'd only pay more if your MVP is picking up traction in exchange for more performance, but your apps always run regardless.-
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One thing I really wish I had learned from a book is how to adapt the architecture to the current stage the company is in (something like this likely exists but IDK).
For instance, the “brittleness” of your systems must follow the “certainty” the company has on product-market fit. In other words, if the % of changing code is high then it should be cheap to change it. I could explain this in much more detail, and I have seen countless under-engineering and over-engineering issues in practice because people lack this mental model.