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Yes there was also Skyliner.io and I had one coincidentally named Surfliner 3 years before that which I killed before launching. What I’ve learned is that in th
by rubiquity 5y ago
Yes there was also Skyliner.io and I had one coincidentally named Surfliner 3 years before that which I killed before launching. What I’ve learned is that in this particular space there are two kinds of developers: the ones that don’t want to run anything and the ones that want to run everything themselves.
- sungrokshim 5y agoThis was our biggest hesitation when we were first evaluating the idea - we thought companies want to either "outsource" devops completely by using something like Heroku, or hire a devops engineer to do the devops work, obviating the need for a platform like this. However, we were surprised to find that a lot of our users actually fall in the middle - they want to run things in their own cloud, but don't want to deal with the complexity of k8s. Perhaps the biggest change in the last 3 years is that k8s became a popular option even for startups - adoption of k8s has been "trickling down" and now the k8s user base is increasingly composed of those who "know the basics of k8s, but don't want to deal with all of its complexity". We've found that a platform like Porter fits in with that type of demographic, and we are optimistic that there are more of these companies based on our current data.
- rubiquity 5y agoNo doubt K8s could have changed things and I certainly don’t mean to discourage you! Best of luck!