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huge congrats to the Render team! especially raising a big round at a time when many VC insiders are saying things like the "series B and above market is closed
by swyx 3y ago
huge congrats to the Render team! especially raising a big round at a time when many VC insiders are saying things like the "series B and above market is closed".
I particularly remember the mad flurry by "cloud distro" startups to capitalize on Heroku essentially shutting down their free tier last year. It's an infrequent thing but I think having a playbook for how to respond when a major competitor churns up their own users on a silver platter is super helpful for future reference.
anything you'd call out as particularly helpful to you in the "post heroku wars" period? looking for specific principles i can extrapolate to other similar situations
- MikeTheRocker 3y agoI'm loving this post Heroku era of cloud. So exciting!
- swyx 3y agoi mean its also particularly churny. there's no "one standard way to do things" anymore. every framework/open source app launch now has to include instructions for like 4 different deploy targets because people can barely even standardize on helm charts much less how to orchestrate containers without k8s/docker compose (every newroku startup seems to want to reinvent the docker compose file, render included) not complaining, innovation is good etc, but it doesnt come with out its costs to DX
- anurag 3y agono magic sauce; the most helpful thing was just staying up despite the massive influx of users and getting even better at fighting platform abuse. This may be very specific to what we do as a cloud provider.