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I signed up and tried grove a few weeks ago, I didn't really see the point. I then stumbled across some video tutorials for using hook.io to connect to an IRC s
by RexM 15y ago
I signed up and tried grove a few weeks ago, I didn't really see the point. I then stumbled across some video tutorials for using hook.io to connect to an IRC server (#4,5 in the list of video tutorials) (http://blog.nodejitsu.com/hookio-video-tutorials http://blog.nodejitsu.com/hookio-video-tutorials) and immediately thought of grove.
It seems, to me, that they decided to use the tutorial, hook up web sockets (#9 in the tutorial list), add a nice interface, log all the events hook.io emits, and decided to charge way too much for it.
I could be missing something, but that was my initial impression.
- tomatohs 15y agoAs a hook.io dev, this was my initial impression as well. However, it is much more difficult to develop this kind of product than you have described here. For example, the hook.io webserver was unusable until just about a month ago.
- jfarmer 15y agoIf you're comfortable configuring and maintaining your own IRC service and have the time to do it, I daresay you're not Grove's target customer.
- dabeeeenster 15y agoIt's not exactly hard! Just compile a package, run it and forget about it...
- hugs 15y agoThe same logic could apply for hosting your own git server. And yet, GitHub thrives. Why is that?
- dmix 15y agoAlso Heroku. Tons of examples...
- pluies_public 15y agoTo be fair, unless you're a huge organisation with thousands of users, an IRC server is just a single process on a low-end machine or small VM. You can't really compare that with the whole infrastructure Heroku provides.
- clone1018 15y agoEvery time I use GitHub, it feels like I'm eating cake.
- icebraining 15y agoNot a good example: Github thrives in part because it's a community, not something you can achieve if everyone is hosting their own git servers. They don't simply make an hard process easier.
- baddox 15y agoThe same logic could apply to literally any service. Restaurants? Why not grow/hunt and cook yourself? Translator? Why not just learn another language? Taxi? Why not buy and drive your own car? For most of these things, the answer should be so obvious that it needn't be said, but apparently that's not the case. Division of labor and specialization generally has at least one of the following advantages over doing it all yourself: cheaper, faster, more reliable, more competent (i.e. better quality), and less stressful.
- pbreit 15y agoThis sentiment exhibits no business or human behaviorial sense whatsoever.
- sim0n 15y agoI imagine Grove is built using Python and not Node.
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