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Ruby on Rails Startup Heroku Gets $3 Million
- utnick 19y agocool service.. will be interested to see what they have in store it currently seems like the ideal type of service to go dhh style profitable with no funding
- prakash 19y agofantastic, congratulation guys!! Designing, running and monitoring high performance and highly scalable websites is still part art and part science. Abstracting that part away for developers is a very lucrative market to be in.
- jdroid 19y agoI have been getting the impression rails is on it's way out. It'd be neat to see this abstracted to apply to django too.
- nonrecursive 19y agoWhat gives you hat impression?
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- alaskamiller 19y agoTechCrunch
- hwork 19y agohttp://www.crunchboard.com/opening/detailjob.php?jid=4125 http://www.crunchboard.com/opening/detailjob.php?jid=4125
- alaskamiller 19y agoI'm of the opinion that TechCrunch knows a thing or two about technology. But writing sensationalist headlines and then attracting all the loons to come out and post comments about Rails suck and so on... My point is this: some people look to TC as an authority now and when the articles and comments reflect one perspective on something it's going to sway some people.
- jdroid 19y agoI don't have specific links. It's more of a vibe over the past few months of reading reddit and this site. Ruby, in general, seems to be getting put aside. BUT, what would i know?!
- rufo 18y agoI think it's just the honeymoon is over and people are looking at it a bit more objectively then a year ago when all the Web 2.0 fashionistas were gobsmacked over it. Don't get me wrong, I like Rails and it's a great framework as long as you keep in mind its warts, but there was a period of about 8 months where Rails was the Second Coming of Christ in web app framework form...
- tlrobinson 19y agoRails, Django, CakePHP, Merb... they're all the same. Rails just "inspired" a new generation of web application frameworks. It wouldn't surprise me if most of Heroku's technology translated to other stacks easily.
- vlad 18y agoI don't think Django was inspired by Rails, but I could be wrong. CakePHP definitely was. In fact, I learned CakePHP by watching Ruby on Rails screencasts because I couldn't get RoR installed on a VPS way back when, while CakePHP installed effortlessly, yet didn't have many good tutorials.
- axod 19y agoIt's funny how obsessed some people become with languages and frameworks, and how people using 'in vogue' ones are applauded, whilst those using perfectly capable but 'out of vogue' ones are looked down upon. I agree though, I think the "This is the best thing since sliced bread" phase is over for rails.
- fallentimes 19y agoWow - fantastic. Good work guys!
- goodkarma 19y agoHeroku is awesome. PG says "make something people want", and Heroku definitely embodies that for me. Congrats to them!!
- wenbert 19y agoNow I want Heroku for PHP ^_^ Coincidence, I also posted something about heroku here http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=184317 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=184317
- aston 18y agoI was about to refer you to AppJet, but apparently they're switching back from PHP to Javascript.
- goodkarma 18y agoI think someone just went through and docked everyone's karma, just for saying they like Heroku. Umm.. WTF?
- justindz 19y agoI would love to see some of this cash go towards supporting simple db or couch as an alternative to Postgres for some app types. I love Heroku. Some of their opensource bits are nice too. I'm enjoying building my app in the cloud.
- sabat 19y agoI can't wait to hear DHH chide these guys about trying to be a startup instead of a small business. [bracing for the karma hit]
- sabat 19y agoHeroku guys: any chance you'd extend some invitations to your YC friends? :-D
- justindz 18y agoI have an invite. Tweet me.
- calpaterson 18y agoIt just could not get any more web2.0 than that comment ;)
- justindz 18y agoLet me try again: I have a free invite. Tweet me.
- edawerd 18y agoI'd like an invite too =)
- rapind 19y agoGratz guys. Been using them for a while. Forget the browser based editor, you can deploy to them with git. Scaling without thinking (they're backed by EC2 & S3) is great, and they launched before appengine.
- dkd 18y agoWhy we still don't have that kind of site for Django? just a thought...
- aston 18y agoGoogle App Engine.
- zach 18y agoCongrats Adam and Heroku! Now move back to Burbank. ;)
- raju 18y agoGreat job and congrats. I have an invite from Heroku, and the little I have used of it has been an amazing experience. Abstracting away deploying, scaling and monitoring from the developers and allowing them to think about the problem they are working with is truly a boon. And clients dont have to worry about managing hardware or dealing with redundancy. Love it. Now only if I could find a client who's willing to work with me on Heroku. Congrats again, guys! You really deserve it.