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Show HN: Coherence, the developer platform to end yak-shaving
Hey HN! I’m Zach, from Coherence (https://www.withcoherence.com/). We’re building software that provides an integrated way to write, preview, and deploy code from one simple configuration. Check out our explainer video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2YHVx8QsLg and a high level demo here: https://www.loom.com/share/072c2afd1099496298f69ab21fdf2820
We started Coherence because we found technology teams spent 30-40% of their time yak shaving and writing glue code, instead of building products our customers love. We don’t think every team should have to build their own internal development platform, so we’re building the software we’d want to buy. Following the example of other great products like Replit, our toolkit is based on integration across the stages of an app’s lifecycle - from dev to production.
Coherence provides one integrated dashboard with cloud development environments, automatic CI/CD, and full-stack environments for each branch (as well as production), all with one simple configuration. A developer can write, test, review, and deploy code from one interface with best practices built in. Devs are intuitively navigated to their own cloud resources when needed, eliminating time spent searching consoles for every log, metric, or configuration setting you might need. We currently support containerized full-stack web apps on AWS and Google Cloud. Unlike the PaaS category defined by Heroku, our goal is to help teams leverage the platforms provided by the best cloud providers, keeping the benefits of running in your own cloud account: unlimited extensibility, cost savings, compliance with audit requirements, and freedom to easily exit our platform without an impact to your systems.
You can play around with a Coherence sandbox and get a taste of the developer experience at app.withcoherence.com/sandbox. If you like what you can see, you can also deploy an app into your AWS or GCP with one of our starter templates for a new project: app.withcoherence.com. We’re happy to support onboarding on a call or via Slack and we’d love to discuss what it would look like to migrate one of your existing apps to Coherence. We’re excited to get your feedback, so please feel free to drop us a note at hn@withcoherence.com
- adamjt 4y agoI can't find any links to pricing info on the site, is this published anywhere?
- zoomzoom 4y agoHi Adam, for now we're offering 6 months free (you pay your own cloud usage). We will always have a free tier and will charge a platform fee as your usage scales, as well as a per-minute fee for usage of the cloud IDE (which will also have a free usage tier). Thanks for checking us out!
- lilyrogath 4y agoLooking forward to trying this tool
- imbennyg 4y agoYou mentioned support for full-stack apps, is there a plan to support micro-services? For example I am working on a new feature that requires updates to 2 or more apps. Using Coherence, can I create a feature environment containing the feature branches of all related apps? Thanks! This seems like great tool, I will definitely be trying it out!
- zoomzoom 4y agoYes, Coherence supports multiple services as part of one app, which all have to live in one repo. You're also able to integrate across multiple Coherence apps (in one or more repos) by treating them as an external dependency of each other. They can all deploy into the same cloud project, of course. We don't currently support automatically doing things like service discovery across apps, but in general better support for micro services and more complex features along these lines are definitely on our roadmap. We'd love to talk about your use case and learn more about how we could support it. Appreciate the feedback and question! And please do check us out and let us know how we can make it work for you...
- davida11en 4y agosuper impressed by this platform
- zoomzoom 4y agoThanks! We're really excited about the potential for what we're building, and would love to discuss any use-cases you've got and how we can support them. Feel free to reach out to hn@withcoherence.com.
- imbennyg 4y agoOn another note, you should see about adding your product to this list of IDP solutions. https://internaldeveloperplatform.org/paas-devops-platforms/ https://internaldeveloperplatform.org/paas-devops-platforms/ I think you can raise a PR here: https://github.com/InternalDeveloperPlatform/public-site/tree/main/content/ecosystem/paas-devops-platforms https://github.com/InternalDeveloperPlatform/public-site/tre...
- zoomzoom 4y agoThanks for the suggestion!
- bchristie 4y agoReally look forward to working with you!
- frechetta93 4y agoThis looks great! Will there be any way to self host Coherence in the future?
- zoomzoom 4y agoThanks! Eventually we do plan to offer enterprise deployments of Coherence on-prem. We don’t plan to open source our control plane, because we believe the right development model for this kind of product is to deliver it as a service.