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Yes, Heroku was the first. I tried it out. It was fun, but I think they realised that though it was a novel idea, it was not the _Big Idea_, and they replaced i
by timinman 16y ago
Yes, Heroku was the first. I tried it out. It was fun, but I think they realised that though it was a novel idea, it was not the _Big Idea_, and they replaced it with what they now have. That's pretty inspiring when you consider how much work they threw away and how that decision has been rewarded.
- olegp 16y agoMaybe the timing was just wrong? The browsers are fast enough now and users, including developers, are much more comfortable with web apps.
- bdotdub 16y agoI think it was less about speed and more about trying to replace peoples' editor / workflow. People are very particular about the tools they use and putting the editor and deployment in the browser doesn't do much in terms of productivity (and probably more counterproductive than anything else) Screenshot: http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2008/2/7/write-rails-apps-in-your-browser http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2008/2/7/write-rails-apps-in-y...
- timinman 16y agoYes, I remember speed being an issue, and I wasn't trying to subtract from the usefulness of this creation.
- biot 16y agoI would say what they threw away was essentially a gimmick. Assuming the functionality of Heroku was the same before and after, publishing from github rather than publishing based on editing files online doesn't change their offering.