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Founder here. Would love feedback from HN. If you'd like to try out the platform, please email me - rsingh@distelli.com - and I'll set you up with an account.


I don't get it. The value prop: "Easily Deploy your Code to Any Server."

I don't want to deploy my code/application to "any" server. In fact, I want to deploy it to the smallest number of servers possible and then change that infrastructure as infrequently as possible. Time spent futzing with infrastructure that's not essential to my customer's experience is time wasted, after all.

And from your copy it seems like you're selling "portability." Once I settle on EC2, though, I'm going to be pretty-well settled on EC2, so portability does very little to benefit me.

Moreover, once I've settled on EC2 I'm quickly going to set up a deployment process. Let's say I'm using Rails + Capistrano for deployment. In a world where I need to switch urgently to another infrastructure service, I know I'll be able to do so with only minimal modifications to my Capistrano script. In any case, necessary changes to the deploy script will be about the same amount of work as necessary changes to the application code and I'm going to have to make those, regardless.

So, overall, the value this provides seems very minimal relative to the likely complexity it would add in other places.

Edit: Reading other comments, this is more like Capistrano-as-a-service it seems? That might be interesting, especially if it comes with process monitoring tools. The page really screams "portability" to me, though.

A tag line like "Deploy your application like the professionals" might do better to get that point across.


I'd also like to add that we're looking for beta users to try the platform and give me feedback so please contact me - rsingh@distelli.com.


I like where this is going. I actually had this idea too, sort of (I wanted a hosted puppet master, then when salt came along, hosted salt master).

However, there's one gaping problem with it.

You seem to have a hosted "weird proprietary yaml language" master.

I don't want the headache of learning a new language, particularly not one with vendor lock in. If it is one of the above, tell me. If it's not, why the hell not?


It would be great if your blog had an RSS or Atom feed.


Yes. Great idea. I'm going to add that.




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