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Show HN: Sqreen, a Web application protection platform

15 points by jbaviat 10y ago

jbaviat 10y ago
Hi everyone! We have been working under the radar during last year to provide you with the simplest way to secure your Web applications. We are a bit like New Relic, but for security. The Ruby on Rails support just went into public beta, and we are planning to release Python support soon. We would be glad to hear what you think about our solution! We also announced our 2.3M$ seed funding round today.
- greggh 10y ago
  What other languages / frameworks will you support in the future?
  - jbaviat 10y ago
    Hi greggh, the Python private beta is in good shape and will be announced in the next coming weeks. On our current road map we also have NodeJS, PHP and Java - but there is more to come!
  - lothiraldan 10y ago
    Here is a sneak peek of the soon to be announced Django support: https://asciinema.org/a/43989 https://asciinema.org/a/43989. Drop us a line if you want to have more information about your stack support!
brudgers 10y ago
I had to dig several pages in to the "how it works" page until I saw that Sqreen is a gem and inferred that it is for Ruby applications and perhaps Rails only. My recommendation is to put the use case on the front page...better yet in the "Web application protection platform" level description. An added benefit would be to reduce the amount of "what Sqreen is not". It would help people determine "not for me" more quickly and helping people is what your company is trying to do. Good luck.
- jbaviat 10y ago
  Hi brudgers, I'm surprised since it does appear on the home page (https://www.sqreen.io https://www.sqreen.io), under the second section "^Made (by | for) developers". Anyway, thanks for your feedback, we'll improve on this!
  - brudgers 10y ago
    I suspect the surprise is grounded in familiarity with the product and its content. You're an expert on sqreen. Potential customers are not. A screenshot of a generic text editor juxtaposed against explanatory text probably should be considered burying the lead. The heading doesn't seem like a natural place to put technical requirements/limitations/implementation_details in the content hierarchy. I'd add that the idea that the software is made by developers is something better shown implicitly than stated explicitly. It's mostly line noise to other developers looking at developer tools [I mean name a developer tool that wasn't made by developers].
marvindanig 10y ago
Looks great! I like the way rails 5 has been shaping up lately and now this. Just signed up! Congratulations on your seed funding news. I wonder how did you guys manage the launch and closing a round simultaneously?
- jbaviat 10y ago
  Thank you so much marvindanig. We've been working very hard, and we gathered a great team! Release and funding schedule were close so we decided to align both today!
  - marvindanig 10y ago
    Would you also notify/email incase of an advanced threat? Right now it feels as if I have to keep looking at yet another dashboard for something to blip across the feed.
    - jbaviat 10y ago
      Yes, we are planning actionable email reports, Slack integration and custom web hooks for advanced threats. We are also planning a weekly summary of the malicious activity over your applications.

15 points by jbaviat 10y ago

Hi everyone! We have been working under the radar during last year to provide you with the simplest way to secure your Web applications. We are a bit like New Relic, but for security. The Ruby on Rails support just went into public beta, and we are planning to release Python support soon. We would be glad to hear what you think about our solution! We also announced our 2.3M$ seed funding round today.

greggh 10y ago
What other languages / frameworks will you support in the future?
- jbaviat 10y ago
  Hi greggh, the Python private beta is in good shape and will be announced in the next coming weeks. On our current road map we also have NodeJS, PHP and Java - but there is more to come!
- lothiraldan 10y ago
  Here is a sneak peek of the soon to be announced Django support: https://asciinema.org/a/43989 https://asciinema.org/a/43989. Drop us a line if you want to have more information about your stack support!

brudgers 10y ago

I had to dig several pages in to the "how it works" page until I saw that Sqreen is a gem and inferred that it is for Ruby applications and perhaps Rails only. My recommendation is to put the use case on the front page...better yet in the "Web application protection platform" level description. An added benefit would be to reduce the amount of "what Sqreen is not". It would help people determine "not for me" more quickly and helping people is what your company is trying to do. Good luck.

jbaviat 10y ago
Hi brudgers, I'm surprised since it does appear on the home page (https://www.sqreen.io https://www.sqreen.io), under the second section "^Made (by | for) developers". Anyway, thanks for your feedback, we'll improve on this!
- brudgers 10y ago
  I suspect the surprise is grounded in familiarity with the product and its content. You're an expert on sqreen. Potential customers are not. A screenshot of a generic text editor juxtaposed against explanatory text probably should be considered burying the lead. The heading doesn't seem like a natural place to put technical requirements/limitations/implementation_details in the content hierarchy. I'd add that the idea that the software is made by developers is something better shown implicitly than stated explicitly. It's mostly line noise to other developers looking at developer tools [I mean name a developer tool that wasn't made by developers].

marvindanig 10y ago

Looks great! I like the way rails 5 has been shaping up lately and now this. Just signed up! Congratulations on your seed funding news. I wonder how did you guys manage the launch and closing a round simultaneously?

jbaviat 10y ago
Thank you so much marvindanig. We've been working very hard, and we gathered a great team! Release and funding schedule were close so we decided to align both today!
- marvindanig 10y ago
  Would you also notify/email incase of an advanced threat? Right now it feels as if I have to keep looking at yet another dashboard for something to blip across the feed.
  - jbaviat 10y ago
    Yes, we are planning actionable email reports, Slack integration and custom web hooks for advanced threats. We are also planning a weekly summary of the malicious activity over your applications.