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I've been a customer for 3 years. `now` has felt like such a great evolution of the Heroku experience, which seemed to stop evolving after it got acquired by Sa

I've been a customer for 3 years. `now` has felt like such a great evolution of the Heroku experience, which seemed to stop evolving after it got acquired by Salesforce. Zeit focused on all types of applications when it started, not just static frontend and FaaS. I wish it would return to supporting apps beyond JAMstack.

hantusk 7y ago
^ The re-brand makes much more sense in this light - a young company that can still only focus on 1 product, needs a name that is associated with their current product, and not now v1 and v2. But that was not the reason given - strange to cause such confusion.
simonw 7y ago
Python works great on Now once you figure out how to deploy it there. The lack of detailed documentation around Python does make me nervous that they may drop support for it some day though. My notes on running a Python app on Now v2: https://github.com/simonw/til/blob/master/zeit-now/python-asgi-on-now-v2.md https://github.com/simonw/til/blob/master/zeit-now/python-as...
- JimTheDev 7y ago
  Yeah they had Go support and yanked it. I don't use go but was surprised. Seems like at times they are hoping to be all things to everyone and at times trying to be really focused (although we might disagree with where they are focusing).
  - odensc 7y ago
    Wait, they don't support Go? It advertises that on their pricing page... https://vercel.com/pricing https://vercel.com/pricing And it's listed in their support docs here... https://vercel.com/docs/runtimes#official-runtimes https://vercel.com/docs/runtimes#official-runtimes
- mrkurt 7y ago
  Do one for fly.io! :D
  - simonw 7y ago
    Already done! https://github.com/simonw/datasette-publish-fly https://github.com/simonw/datasette-publish-fly They wrote about it on their blog: https://fly.io/blog/making-datasets-fly-with-datasette-and-fly/ https://fly.io/blog/making-datasets-fly-with-datasette-and-f...

hantusk 7y ago

^ The re-brand makes much more sense in this light - a young company that can still only focus on 1 product, needs a name that is associated with their current product, and not now v1 and v2. But that was not the reason given - strange to cause such confusion.

simonw 7y ago

Python works great on Now once you figure out how to deploy it there. The lack of detailed documentation around Python does make me nervous that they may drop support for it some day though. My notes on running a Python app on Now v2: https://github.com/simonw/til/blob/master/zeit-now/python-asgi-on-now-v2.md https://github.com/simonw/til/blob/master/zeit-now/python-as...

JimTheDev 7y ago
Yeah they had Go support and yanked it. I don't use go but was surprised. Seems like at times they are hoping to be all things to everyone and at times trying to be really focused (although we might disagree with where they are focusing).
- odensc 7y ago
  Wait, they don't support Go? It advertises that on their pricing page... https://vercel.com/pricing https://vercel.com/pricing And it's listed in their support docs here... https://vercel.com/docs/runtimes#official-runtimes https://vercel.com/docs/runtimes#official-runtimes
mrkurt 7y ago
Do one for fly.io! :D
- simonw 7y ago
  Already done! https://github.com/simonw/datasette-publish-fly https://github.com/simonw/datasette-publish-fly They wrote about it on their blog: https://fly.io/blog/making-datasets-fly-with-datasette-and-fly/ https://fly.io/blog/making-datasets-fly-with-datasette-and-f...