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Hey there, Founder of digitally induced here. Happy to share what've been working on with Thin Backend over the last months. Thin is a version of the IHP Frame

by _query 4y ago

Hey there, Founder of digitally induced here. Happy to share what've been working on with Thin Backend over the last months. Thin is a version of the IHP Framework (https://ihp.digitallyinduced.com/ https://ihp.digitallyinduced.com/), designed to be used by frontend developers. Instead of building APIs with low-level `fetch` calls, we provide high-level APIs like `createRecord('tasks', { title: 'Hello World' }`, `updateRecord(..)` and `deleteRecord(..)` to update your database. To simplify state management (which is typically hard and lot's of boilerplate), we provide realtime APIs so that all app state is always in sync with the actual database. Previously your react app might have been rendered from the redux state, now it's rendered directly from the server state. The Schema Designer and the migration tools make it really easy to get going with a project. Internally Thin is built with Haskell and powered by IHP DataSync (https://ihp.digitallyinduced.com/Guide/realtime-spas.html https://ihp.digitallyinduced.com/Guide/realtime-spas.html). Happy to hear everyone's feedback! :)

alephnan 4y ago
How does pricing compare to Firebase which lets frontend devs think in terms of modifying their JSON data without thinking about the REST equivalent?
- _query 4y ago
  You can find our pricing here https://thin.dev/pricing https://thin.dev/pricing If you're not using the free plan, you're paying 10$ + (2$ * GB of data traffic). This is likely a bit cheaper than Firebase (but Firebase has many more pricing variables, so it's non trivial to compare) :)
  - RayVR 4y ago
    I think you have to specify the use case. I have an app that I built which has a couple hundred users. I pay just a couple dollars per month to use firebase firestore, authentication, cloud functions, storage, analytics, and crashlytics. I’m sure thin.dev is very cool and I’m excited to check it out but I expect in the distribution of possible use cases, thin pricing is cheaper than firestore or real-time database in a vanishingly small number of them.
    - _query 4y ago
      Thanks for your honest feedback. Our pricing still might change a bit in the future. I'm with you that with a couple hundred users it shouldn't cost more than 5-10$ to host this app. The Thin Pro plan already includes 5GB for free, so we might increase these 5GB to a bit more.

by _query 4y ago

alephnan 4y ago

How does pricing compare to Firebase which lets frontend devs think in terms of modifying their JSON data without thinking about the REST equivalent?

_query 4y ago
You can find our pricing here https://thin.dev/pricing https://thin.dev/pricing If you're not using the free plan, you're paying 10$ + (2$ * GB of data traffic). This is likely a bit cheaper than Firebase (but Firebase has many more pricing variables, so it's non trivial to compare) :)
- RayVR 4y ago
  I think you have to specify the use case. I have an app that I built which has a couple hundred users. I pay just a couple dollars per month to use firebase firestore, authentication, cloud functions, storage, analytics, and crashlytics. I’m sure thin.dev is very cool and I’m excited to check it out but I expect in the distribution of possible use cases, thin pricing is cheaper than firestore or real-time database in a vanishingly small number of them.
  - _query 4y ago
    Thanks for your honest feedback. Our pricing still might change a bit in the future. I'm with you that with a couple hundred users it shouldn't cost more than 5-10$ to host this app. The Thin Pro plan already includes 5GB for free, so we might increase these 5GB to a bit more.