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(I am one of the site's creators) Thanks for the overwhelming response - making the front page of HackerNews unexpectedly. DeployButton was our entry to Rail

(I am one of the site's creators) Thanks for the overwhelming response - making the front page of HackerNews unexpectedly. DeployButton was our entry to RailsRumble this year, and it's a solution we created because we wanted something like this for ourselves for our own startup, Lizi. Over the next few weeks, we'll be updating a few key issues that have been raised in these comments, including the ones about security. We don't immediately accept that enterprises will jump to use DeployButton, but for a series of smaller consultancies, the security features we will offer will be more than enough. Thanks again for the support - Sometimes I wish there was a "Whoops, we're not ready for HackerNews yet, don't taze me bro" break-the-glass button that puts us back on after a month's time.

dstorrs 14y ago
Hey yakshaving, I like the idea and you've got an interesting internal page, but your front page ("What if deploying your code...") is literally unusable on an iPhone and probably on other mobile platforms -- the button is not visible, nothing is clickable, and it can't be scrolled or resized. You might want to rethink that so as to capture the people who are browsing HN / TechCrunch / whatever while surfing on the bus on the go.
- toomuchtodo 14y ago
  Same here on a Galaxy Nexus.
- yakshaving 14y ago
  Thanks a lot - I DID notice that -- For the first time after a friend pointed out that we were on HackerNews and I was in line waiting to eat a delicious veggie burrito. We opened the link in horror to notice that our catch splash page was unusable on mobile. Sorry about this, a fix for this is coming too! From what I understand, we're not allowed to check in or "deploy" until the competition (judging) is complete, but its now on our list. Thanks so much for your support!
  - regularfry 14y ago
    It's not just mobile - I can't do anything with it on my netbook, either.
    - yakshaving 14y ago
      Hmm - really, that's odd. What browser/OS and netbook are you using? Any chance you can send me a screenshot? contact@deploybutton.com
      - regularfry 14y ago
        It's Firefox on Ubuntu 12.04 on an Asus Eee 1005P. I think it's just a vertical resolution problem - comparing on another screen it looked like the big red button was just cut off, and without the scroll bar working there was nothing I could do on the front page. Checking again, I see that there's a four or five pixel strip of red bottom center that is actually clickable, but it's not exactly obvious. Screenshot here: http://imgur.com/JWcaP http://imgur.com/JWcaP
ericcholis 14y ago
Outstanding site. I'm a paying user of DeployHQ at the moment. My biggest issue there is not having the ability to add new deployment servers via an API. Any thoughts on adding API access at some point?
jeaguilar 14y ago
http://deploybutton.com/p/e7wftp14il1ij2a5evqx/repo http://deploybutton.com/p/e7wftp14il1ij2a5evqx/repo: Lorem Ipsum text.
emperorcezar 14y ago
I'm interested to know why the only optimal deploy for Django is SSH? Django works great on Heroku as well.

dstorrs 14y ago

Hey yakshaving, I like the idea and you've got an interesting internal page, but your front page ("What if deploying your code...") is literally unusable on an iPhone and probably on other mobile platforms -- the button is not visible, nothing is clickable, and it can't be scrolled or resized. You might want to rethink that so as to capture the people who are browsing HN / TechCrunch / whatever while surfing on the bus on the go.

toomuchtodo 14y ago
Same here on a Galaxy Nexus.
yakshaving 14y ago
Thanks a lot - I DID notice that -- For the first time after a friend pointed out that we were on HackerNews and I was in line waiting to eat a delicious veggie burrito. We opened the link in horror to notice that our catch splash page was unusable on mobile. Sorry about this, a fix for this is coming too! From what I understand, we're not allowed to check in or "deploy" until the competition (judging) is complete, but its now on our list. Thanks so much for your support!
- regularfry 14y ago
  It's not just mobile - I can't do anything with it on my netbook, either.
  - yakshaving 14y ago
    Hmm - really, that's odd. What browser/OS and netbook are you using? Any chance you can send me a screenshot? contact@deploybutton.com
    - regularfry 14y ago
      It's Firefox on Ubuntu 12.04 on an Asus Eee 1005P. I think it's just a vertical resolution problem - comparing on another screen it looked like the big red button was just cut off, and without the scroll bar working there was nothing I could do on the front page. Checking again, I see that there's a four or five pixel strip of red bottom center that is actually clickable, but it's not exactly obvious. Screenshot here: http://imgur.com/JWcaP http://imgur.com/JWcaP

ericcholis 14y ago

Outstanding site. I'm a paying user of DeployHQ at the moment. My biggest issue there is not having the ability to add new deployment servers via an API. Any thoughts on adding API access at some point?

jeaguilar 14y ago

http://deploybutton.com/p/e7wftp14il1ij2a5evqx/repo http://deploybutton.com/p/e7wftp14il1ij2a5evqx/repo: Lorem Ipsum text.

emperorcezar 14y ago

I'm interested to know why the only optimal deploy for Django is SSH? Django works great on Heroku as well.