Revolv
Infrastructure
cloud architecture automation
SHOW HN2020
99points
40comments
#654of 3,028 in 2020
Top 22%of 2020 by points
How HN took it
RoastedHalf or more of the comments are critical
2 positive, 8 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 13 critical, out of 23 comments about the project. Thread score -0.43.
Pricing: 0 for, 6 againstDocs: 1 for, 2 againstIdea: 1 for, 2 againstExecution: 0 for, 1 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Interesting, user-friendly concept
From 2 comments
Looks super cool! It would be nice to be able to deploy a starter application alongside the architecture as a demo for good practices.
pol0nium on HNLooks neat, but it took a lot of skipping around to figure out exactly what it does. Some short front-page blurb that says "Like a form wizard driven terraform" or similar would…
tyingq on HN
Objections
20% of cloud spend pricing is too high and unpredictable
From 4 comments
I like the idea but 20% of cloud spend in perpetuity is completely ridiculous and rules out anything above personal toy projects Even if someone did sign up for the paid tier,…
abarrettwilsdon on HNAm I out of touch or is 20% of cloud bill outrageous? It would be astronomical for enterprises and not worth it for start-ups.
digitalsanctum on HNFor 20% of the cloud spend as the price , would expect a far more detailed view of what features to expect from the subscription. While it is a interesting concept , not sure if…
weekay on HNFeels like an odd pricing model to me but I'm not the target audience so not sure what would be expected. I don't want my cost to Revolv to be so unpredictable. If my AWS costs…
have_faith on HN
Login with GitHub or email required before seeing the product
From 2 comments
Why do I need to got authorize this? I can't tell if this interests me or not. BTW we have a few here you can use if it's Terraform based…
tlarkworthy on HNIs there a sample or example with comments somewhere that does not require a login with GitHub? It's alright for usage but for a Show HN I imagine a login could be skipped. I…
caiobegotti on HN
Unclear what the product does; too few architecture examples
From 3 comments
Emphasis mine: > I'm building a catalog of cloud architecture What I expected as a user was to see a ton of examples - a catalog - of different cloud-native architectures. What I…
pc86 on HNI like the idea, but could not find what you do exactly from your features page. Examples would be great. Also, the term user friendly is used a lot without any instances or…
sidcool on HNLooks neat, but it took a lot of skipping around to figure out exactly what it does. Some short front-page blurb that says "Like a form wizard driven terraform" or similar would…
tyingq on HN
Target audience unclear
From 1 comment
While i like the idea, i don't think you have a real target. Who would consider your service? A Frontenddeveloper will not use it because they can't. Who only has a basic idea on…
hansitomani on HN
Requests
Examples, demo videos and documentation without sign-up
From 3 comments
Sounds interesting. Can you create a video showing how it works with a couple different examples?
flanbiscuit on HNIs there a sample or example with comments somewhere that does not require a login with GitHub? It's alright for usage but for a Show HN I imagine a login could be skipped. I…
caiobegotti on HNI was hoping to see a full example of how to use your platform, and followed the first example link to what seemed to be a detailed tutorial for how to deploy a web app, with the…
thamer on HN
Cost estimates before deployment
From 1 comment
Suggestion: with costs of cloud providers being a problem these days and hard to track, any automation tool like Revolv could ended up being blamed for a huge bill and it's not…
caiobegotti on HN
Export of Terraform files on eject
From 1 comment
oh cool, thats helpful. But is it terraform based? What is spat out when ejected?
tlarkworthy on HN
Questions
How much would users pay for the product?
From 2 comments
Thanks! Pricing is something that we've thinking about for a while. What's your opinion? How much are you willing to pay?
jeremylevy on HNHey :)! It's a first alpha release. We're listening to feedback. Billing is not implemented yet. Pricing is something that we've thinking about for a while. We also have written…
jeremylevy on HN
How does ejecting architectures work with pricing?
From 1 comment
I think the idea is very cool, but similar to the parent comment I have a lot of reservations about how the economics of this work: 1. I get that it seems like pretty much any…
hn_throwaway_99 on HN
Alternatives named
AWS Amplify
From 1 comment
> "A Terraform with Heroku-like features". I think, AWS Amplify (Firebase, I guess, in GCP's case?) gets a low/medium cloud experience engineer almost all the way there, and…
ignoramous on HN
env0
From 1 comment
Reminds me of env0 [1]. Pretty cool idea overall. [1] https://www.env0.com/
derfabianpeter on HN
Terraform examples repositories
From 1 comment
Why do I need to got authorize this? I can't tell if this interests me or not. BTW we have a few here you can use if it's Terraform based…
tlarkworthy on HN