With Deta we are exploring ways to make the cloud less of a monster.
As a dev who worked in sales and marketing, I always had ideas for small web tools to improve my own and my team's workflow — but I always faced hurdles, like setting up a server, configuring an http proxy and implementing auth.
With Deta, we are trying to take away these repetitive tasks and allow you to simply build your web app, not the environment it runs on.
We would love any feedback / questions / comments you may have!
AppEngine and Firebase tackle the same frustrations. They both worked out pretty well. Have you used firebase? You should at least try it out and explain where it falls short.
Firebase is great, but there’s plenty of space for yet another simple cloud solution.
Providing a decent SQL database would be a good feature compared to Firebase. And tons of little things that avoid reinventing the wheel everytime I have a new idea
Yes, kind of. We put a lot of emphasis on offering a great developer experience/docs/SDKs (even for new comers and front-end devs), so might abstract some things.
Our upcoming product is a file storage/CDN service that's backed by S3.
The code will look bit like:
from deta import Drive
files = Drive()
files.put("myresume.pdf", "./resume.pdf")
From inside a Micro, this will just work and have the right permissions set.
For enterprise customers, we could offer direct access to AWS resources and Deta could run in their own AWS account.
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Hello HN, co-creator here!
With Deta we are exploring ways to make the cloud less of a monster.
As a dev who worked in sales and marketing, I always had ideas for small web tools to improve my own and my team's workflow — but I always faced hurdles, like setting up a server, configuring an http proxy and implementing auth.
With Deta, we are trying to take away these repetitive tasks and allow you to simply build your web app, not the environment it runs on.
We would love any feedback / questions / comments you may have!
AppEngine and Firebase tackle the same frustrations. They both worked out pretty well. Have you used firebase? You should at least try it out and explain where it falls short.
Firebase is great, but there’s plenty of space for yet another simple cloud solution.
Providing a decent SQL database would be a good feature compared to Firebase. And tons of little things that avoid reinventing the wheel everytime I have a new idea
Are you running your own hardware or on top of a bigger cloud?
If it's your own hardware, where is the datacenter and how many do you have?
We use AWS for now and are available in 5 regions. It makes more sense for a small team like us :)
That makes a ton of sense. Thanks! Does that mean you'll make it possible to access other AWS services?
Yes, kind of. We put a lot of emphasis on offering a great developer experience/docs/SDKs (even for new comers and front-end devs), so might abstract some things.
Our upcoming product is a file storage/CDN service that's backed by S3.
The code will look bit like:
From inside a Micro, this will just work and have the right permissions set.For enterprise customers, we could offer direct access to AWS resources and Deta could run in their own AWS account.