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Congrats on the launch, Render team! Like so many others here, I was a former Heroku user turned AWS-customer that is longing for an option with the positioning
by dkyc 5y ago
Congrats on the launch, Render team! Like so many others here, I was a former Heroku user turned AWS-customer that is longing for an option with the positioning, UX/DX that Heroku offered ten years ago.
There's this bit of copywriting I see on many startup landing pages that annoys me a bit:
"You can now set up a Redis instance in just a few clicks and let Render handle the heavy lifting to operate it reliably and securely."
To me, it always feels somewhat patronizing to refer to yourself as doing 'heavy lifting' and the customer's work as (obviously) not-quite-as-heavy-lifting. Maybe in particular because I've set up Redis in the past, and as many others have mentioned it is really the epitome of hassle-free, easy-to-setup server software. So referring to hosting Redis as heavy lifting just kind of feels wrong or over the top.
- anurag 5y agoNoted. Our intent is more 'you don't have to worry about it' vs. 'you're too dumb to do it yourself'.