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It looks very promising. However I wonder who is the intended user of Gun: 1. "full-stack" developers who just want to save time and/or benefit from NoDB aspec

It looks very promising. However I wonder who is the intended user of Gun: 1. "full-stack" developers who just want to save time and/or benefit from NoDB aspect 2. Beginners and front-end developers who don't anything about databases? In case of group 1 your marketing seems to be insufficiently technical as many people here have already noted. In case of group 2 (which I belong to) things look completely different. As a beginner whose learning efforts are constantly disheartened by tutorials and courses which end at "locally hosted HelloWorld app" phase, I'd be more than happy seeing: 1. step-by-step, layman-friendly tutorial on installing Gun on S3 and other platforms. 2. very well commented example app demonstrating how to create typical functionalities. With such approach you will keep the "Dropbox of databases" promise which sounds very exciting. Actually I think that something like this should be an obligatory feature on Codeacademy or any web development MOOC dedicated to beginners.

marknadal 12y ago
Great questions. 1. As of right now, focusing on beginner/front-end devs who just want an easy open source Firebase like database. People building small experimental apps, since we have finished our battle-testing suite yet. However, I'd also highly encourage full stack developers to get involved and try it out and give us feedback. For small projects it'll probably save you time, but the plugin/modules ecosystem (aka features) aren't mature enough that you'll be writing a lot of your own logic. Which please do! We need them! If you don't want to run GUN on localhost, I'll host a GUN server for you. :) You are right, I need to get better docs/tutorials and information out on this, so laymen don't get disheartened. Is there anything I can do to help? Thanks for your comment!
- ArekDymalski 12y ago
  Thanks Mark, I'll keep an eye on the docs page then. I'll also keep the thumbs up :)

marknadal 12y ago

Great questions. 1. As of right now, focusing on beginner/front-end devs who just want an easy open source Firebase like database. People building small experimental apps, since we have finished our battle-testing suite yet. However, I'd also highly encourage full stack developers to get involved and try it out and give us feedback. For small projects it'll probably save you time, but the plugin/modules ecosystem (aka features) aren't mature enough that you'll be writing a lot of your own logic. Which please do! We need them! If you don't want to run GUN on localhost, I'll host a GUN server for you. :) You are right, I need to get better docs/tutorials and information out on this, so laymen don't get disheartened. Is there anything I can do to help? Thanks for your comment!

ArekDymalski 12y ago
Thanks Mark, I'll keep an eye on the docs page then. I'll also keep the thumbs up :)