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

by pravanjancon 4/4/2024, 4:49 AMwith 8 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

by Nathanbaon 4/4/2024, 5:36 AM

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.

by XCSmeon 4/5/2024, 7:56 PM

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.

by aniketmishon 4/4/2024, 4:55 AM

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

by SamarthyaGuptaon 4/4/2024, 5:27 AM

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

by kirtikrishan9on 4/4/2024, 5:08 AM

could not understand with the word - self-managed.

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