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I am a developer who needs to do AWS sysadmin sometimes and does not have the time to learn Chef, Puppet, etc. So I think I am a target user and I like the conc

by rpedela 13y ago

I am a developer who needs to do AWS sysadmin sometimes and does not have the time to learn Chef, Puppet, etc. So I think I am a target user and I like the concept. I tried it and find it very hard to use. * Hints or error messages appear in the top banner. This is not obvious. If you moved the messages closer to where I am looking, that would be more helpful. You could simply move the message to the middle of the screen or in some cases pop-up a tooltip next to the component that has the error or hint. It also does not help that the news banner is a similar color to the error message box. * It is not clear what the blue, green, etc arrows and squares mean. I tried hovering to see if a tooltip appeared with a short description but none did. I think the blue arrows are for networking, but not totally sure. * I have no clue how to connect any of my instances to the public internet gateway or even if I can. I tried connecting an instance directly and I also tried using an LB. I don't know if any of my UI suggestions are correct so please take them with a grain of salt. Just trying to give possible ideas that may help. Like I said, I like the concept and I think it has potential. But I think a lot more work is necessary to make it easy to use.

tbronchain 13y ago
Thank you for your comments! We will consider them and try to improve our UI this way. Also, we are working on the realisations of video tutorials, which may help the comprehension during the learning phase.
- x3c 13y ago
  You're missing the most important part of networking with your potential customers. Provide a contact point to the potential customer where he can get help in setting up the instance today. It's good that you're incorporating his feedback but why not ask him to contact you and help him set up on your platform. Just a suggestion.
tbronchain 13y ago
We have contacted you though by email using the one you have registered with. Please, come back to us with some of your availabilities to setup a session where we could help you to build your application.
roeme 13y ago
>does not have the time to learn Chef, Puppet, etc. Dude, get out ASAP where you work or read puppet's tut NOW. Puppet began to be of real use to me after between half to one full workday (~8hrs.). IMO that's what you need to be able to invest at any sane workplace. (Still learning; but now it's more like design patterns when you already know $LANG)

by rpedela 13y ago

tbronchain 13y ago

Thank you for your comments! We will consider them and try to improve our UI this way. Also, we are working on the realisations of video tutorials, which may help the comprehension during the learning phase.

x3c 13y ago
You're missing the most important part of networking with your potential customers. Provide a contact point to the potential customer where he can get help in setting up the instance today. It's good that you're incorporating his feedback but why not ask him to contact you and help him set up on your platform. Just a suggestion.

tbronchain 13y ago

We have contacted you though by email using the one you have registered with. Please, come back to us with some of your availabilities to setup a session where we could help you to build your application.

roeme 13y ago

>does not have the time to learn Chef, Puppet, etc. Dude, get out ASAP where you work or read puppet's tut NOW. Puppet began to be of real use to me after between half to one full workday (~8hrs.). IMO that's what you need to be able to invest at any sane workplace. (Still learning; but now it's more like design patterns when you already know $LANG)