Ask HN: Startup Devs: Roast our Landing page and tool

3 pointspravanjanc1y ago8 comments

Hi all,

I need your help in understanding if the content on this page resonates with you or not. - https://www.facets.cloud/facets-for-startups

We are building a cloud deployment tool for startups. And I want to validate if we are on the right track.

So there are two questions really: 1. Does the content resonate with your pain points? 2. Which features would you like to see in the product?

Your feedback matters. Thanks

8 comments

Nathanba1y ago

I just don't understand what you mean by the word 'environment', it is far too vague. I assume it only means something very specific for kubernetes and even in there more specifically something managed with your product. If that is the case then I still don't really know why I would need some kind of tool to manage this. Manage how? What exactly is the benefit of this tool managing an environment on kubernetes for me? Reading a bit more carefully it seems you let me specify services and then the tool deploys them all. I think now that I think more about it, it's probably what pulumi does but purely gui based which could theoretically be nice although I don't know why I wouldn't always rather have it all in code form. But it all depends on how nice the ui is I think. The value would be that I can drag and drop mongodb into the scene in your ui and then click "deploy to aws" and it works immediately without having to know anything about aws.

pravanjancOP1y ago

Understood. We'll try to make the benefit more specific.

> The value would be that I can drag and drop mongodb into the scene in your ui and then click "deploy to aws" and it works immediately without having to know anything about aws.

This is correct. You can drag and drop moduels like mongodb and deploy to your cloud environments with ease. We're also gonna provide templates of well-known tech stacks.

As for infrastructure-as-code - Yes, we are built on Terraform, and IaC sits in your repository. But it's auto-generated, you don't have to spend time on writing scripts. But whenever you need to interact with the code, you can - from your github repo.

XCSme1y ago

Is this like CapRover, Coolify, Ploi.io, etc.?

If not, what is the difference?

My main "pain point" is the self-hosting aspect, I want to manage my servers from my own platform.

pravanjancOP1y ago

https://www.facets.cloud/facets-for-startups

aniketmish1y ago

I could understand what you do but a product video demo could be a nice addition

SamarthyaGupta1y ago

Is this just for startups or are you building for growth companies as well?

kirtikrishan91y ago

could not understand with the word - self-managed.

Does it mean - it will be easy to use the environment? or something else here?

pravanjancOP1y ago

So the idea is that you'd be able to manage your cloud environments easily since most of it will be automated. And their's an abstraction layer which helps you reduce the complexity of dealing with the infrastructure. You won't have to rely on infrastructure experts to manage your environments.

Essentially the larger thing is having ready-to-use infrastructure definitions (stacks - like MERN) and easily create environments out of it

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8 comments

Nathanba1y ago

pravanjancOP1y ago

Understood. We'll try to make the benefit more specific.

> The value would be that I can drag and drop mongodb into the scene in your ui and then click "deploy to aws" and it works immediately without having to know anything about aws.

This is correct. You can drag and drop moduels like mongodb and deploy to your cloud environments with ease. We're also gonna provide templates of well-known tech stacks.

XCSme1y ago

Is this like CapRover, Coolify, Ploi.io, etc.?

If not, what is the difference?

My main "pain point" is the self-hosting aspect, I want to manage my servers from my own platform.

pravanjancOP1y ago

https://www.facets.cloud/facets-for-startups

aniketmish1y ago

I could understand what you do but a product video demo could be a nice addition

SamarthyaGupta1y ago

Is this just for startups or are you building for growth companies as well?

kirtikrishan91y ago

could not understand with the word - self-managed.

Does it mean - it will be easy to use the environment? or something else here?

pravanjancOP1y ago

Essentially the larger thing is having ready-to-use infrastructure definitions (stacks - like MERN) and easily create environments out of it

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse