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This sounds really neat, and exciting that it has a self-hosting option as well! Raspberry Pis seem to generally be pets instead of cattle, and combined with th
by ocdtrekkie 7y ago
This sounds really neat, and exciting that it has a self-hosting option as well! Raspberry Pis seem to generally be pets instead of cattle, and combined with the ease at which they seem to torch their file systems, a good management solution for them sounds really appealing.
Do you foresee a business model applying to self-hosters? If your business is going to focus on the service, do you have a plan to avoid AWS/Azure/GCP eating your lunch running your self-hosted code?
- joshwget 7y ago> Raspberry Pis seem to generally be pets instead of cattle This is a great comment, and maybe a point we should have directly made in the launch post. Devices are certainly more like pets. If you push an update that breaks a device, you'll have an angry customer calling you rather than just being able to spin up a new EC2 instance! We certainly predict self-hosting being a core part of our business model. This isn't as a response to AWS/Azure/GCP though. We get this question a lot, but we don't actually fear AWS/Azure/GCP much. Plenty of SaaS companies have products similar to something offered by major clouds (Datadog, Cloudflare, etc...). We think the big clouds are good at their core competencies (EC2, RDS, etc...) but struggle to address the right problems with a great UX in their fringe products. AWS/Azure/GCP just don't come up much in our customer conversations. We think our real competitor is internal tooling!
- kingosticks 7y agoI assumed the pets/cattle comment was a reference to https://github.com/cattlepi/cattlepi https://github.com/cattlepi/cattlepi