There are a lot of similarities, but here are a few differences:
It's region-less, and runs your inference task on the Cloudflare network, near your end users. Though that's not entirely true yet - we'll be in 100 sites by EOY '23, and nearly everywhere by EOY '24.
It was built to work alongside our new vector database, Vectorize, out of the box.
It's accessible to all developers, regardless of where you deploy (via API), but we wanted to offer a seamless option for developers already building on Cloudflare - Workers, Pages, etc.
It's 100% designed to let you try it out for free, so something else must be going on. Feel free to message me at pwittig at cloudflare dot com, and I'm happy to help debug.
I was a long time Heroku user/lover (~10 years) for both personal and company projects. I've recently moved to Render[1], and so far it's been great. I haven't been using them long enough to put it through it's paces, but I'd certainly say it's worth a look. Other alternatives I've heard good things about are Fly.io[2] and Porter[3].
Checked out render.com in the context of side projects that I want on the air but don't expect anyone to ever use (I have so many on heroku, who got rewarded for their generosity with many thousands of dollars of business from me), which means I'm willing to pay a few dollars but not to pay per-app. Looks great except that they delete your free databases after 90 days, making it completely useless for this use case. Their announcement blog post says they plan to remove this limitation "early 2022", but it hadn't happened yet.
I next looked at fly.io, which seem ok for the first two apps, assuming they use the same database. If I ever want more than two apps, it seems I will need to start hosting different apps together, which is the opposite of the headache-free experience I'm looking for.
Porter runs on my own cloud account, so I can't trust it to not cost too much.
Maybe I can get a Kubernetes cluster somewhere (DigitalOcean?) and deploy all my small apps to it, but it sounds like a headache.
Dokku on top of a Digital Ocean droplet is a pretty cheap and easy option if you're OK with a single-server solution (i.e. small side project) and you're looking for something Heroku-like.
What about DO App Platform? I was thinking of trying that next. I’ve read a lot about slow build times and random build failures, but at the same time they at least seem to be actively developing the service.
Elsewhere in this thread is a link to a blogpost comparing it to doing things manually with GCP and quickly dismissing it as extremely limited, so I didn't delve further.
"Stripe is one of the most successful startups we've funded, and the problem they solved was an urgent one. If anyone could have sat back and waited for users, it was Stripe. But in fact they're famous within YC for aggressive early user acquisition.
..."At YC we use the term "Collison installation" for the technique they invented. More diffident founders ask "Will you try our beta?" and if the answer is yes, they say "Great, we'll send you a link." But the Collison brothers weren't going to wait. When anyone agreed to try Stripe they'd say "Right then, give me your laptop" and set them up on the spot."
Good work. This is pretty cool and looks really clean. As someone currently work on a SaaS product, I find sites like this super useful to find design inspiration without spending a lot of time hunting for good examples. Out of curiosity, what exactly do I get by subscribing - a curated list of new additions on some recurring basis? (might be worth clarifying on the site)
Thank you! Right now I haven't planned what kind of information exactly I am going to provide for subscribers yet. However, I am thinking about creating some useful information about saas product creation not only from design perspective, but also from development, maybe update subscribers about new listings added (Although I think this would be little bit bland), also there are some ideas about growth case studies. So there are a lot of things and I will try to experiment and see what people who subscribe really like.
Very strong second on this! Use case for me: Like most ppl, I often listed to podcasts while doing some other primary task (cooking, driving, etc.), and am unable to "note" the interesting snippets. When I go back to find those snippets, I am often unsure of which exact episode I heard it on, and if I do remember that, using the audio scrubber to find it is still a disaster. Would love to give it a try when you roll this out.
* 1-3 years of software development at a high-growth technology company
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