Appliku
Dev tools
deployment platform
SHOW HN2021
How HN took it
7 positive, 19 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 8 critical, out of 35 comments about the project. Thread score +0.07.
Idea: 4 for, 3 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 2 againstDesign: 0 for, 2 againstPricing: 1 for, 0 againstExecution: 1 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Saves significant hosting cost versus Heroku
From 2 comments
I am long time paid customer of Appliku. I've built a SaaS (https://unicornplatform.com) and before was hosted on Heroku. Migrating to Appliku saved me $400/mo in cloud costs. My…
alexanderisora on HNWe tried Heroku, and that was expensive. We tried deploying manually on AWS but it took a lot of time with a devops freelancer. Got sold on Appliku and haven't had to think about…
georgeleon on HN
Easy deployment without DevOps knowledge
From 1 comment
We tried Heroku, and that was expensive. We tried deploying manually on AWS but it took a lot of time with a devops freelancer. Got sold on Appliku and haven't had to think about…
georgeleon on HN
Objections
Requires broad AWS permissions
From 1 comment
Can you talk a bit about the security model? Appliku requires an AWS user with: AmazonEC2FullAccess AmazonEC2ContainerRegistryFullAccess AmazonEC2ContainerServiceFullAccess…
pbronez on HN
Databases not suited for production (no failover or backups)
From 1 comment
Hey, thanks for kind words! At the moment databases in Appliku are best fit for non-production environments. So while you can enjoy easy and great deployments of your apps, I am…
appliku on HN
Red ocean market with many competitors
From 1 comment
I have been following this space alot. Heroku like deployment spaces have exploded recently partly because people miss that experience, partly because buildpack is opensource[1],…
debarshri on HN
Requests
Production database failover and backups
From 2 comments
Hey Congrats on launching this. I really hope it'll grow. Here are my 2 cts. I've used dokku for this, running Django, for years and recently I moved a customer over to use the…
rvanlaar on HNCongrats on the launch! > Create as many instances of Postgres, PostGIS, Mysql, Redis and RabbitMQ as you want. They are hosted on your servers and we don't charge extra for…
thih9 on HN
Monitoring
From 1 comment
Hey Congrats on launching this. I really hope it'll grow. Here are my 2 cts. I've used dokku for this, running Django, for years and recently I moved a customer over to use the…
rvanlaar on HN
Questions
How does the AWS security model work
From 1 comment
Can you talk a bit about the security model? Appliku requires an AWS user with: AmazonEC2FullAccess AmazonEC2ContainerRegistryFullAccess AmazonEC2ContainerServiceFullAccess…
pbronez on HN
Does it sleep idle apps like Heroku dynos
From 1 comment
So with Heorku, if an app has one dyno and that dyno doesn't receive any traffic in 1 hour, the dyno goes to sleep. Does Appliku have a similar thing or does it stay online longer?
howolduis on HN
Alternatives named
Heroku
From 1 comment
This looks sleek, but I’ll ask the obvious question: Why use this over Heroku? I couldn’t find a good answer to that question from a quick look at the website, aside from maybe…
RussianCow on HN
Dokku
From 1 comment
You can do Dokku, you can setup dokku and deploy apps with dokku. no problem. But I wanted a solution where I don't need to remember anything DevOps while writing/shipping my…
appliku on HN
DigitalOcean App Platform
From 1 comment
What are the benefits over using this instead of DO's app platform? https://www.digitalocean.com/products/app-platform/
wartijn_ on HN
Hatchbox
From 1 comment
If anyone is looking for a similar service to deploy Ruby/Rails apps, check out https://www.hatchbox.io from Chris Oliver. Unfortunately doesn't come with a free tier but worth…
axelthegerman on HN
CapRover
From 1 comment
I have been using CapRover for this purpose (https://caprover.com)
pcardoso on HN