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Show HN: Tyk Cloud – Open Source API Management in The Cloud

36 points by jively 11y ago

zyrthofar 11y ago
Sounds nice! But... Maybe it's just a pet peeve of mine, but seeing, twice, images/videos of gears that wouldn't work, is irritating. Such a mistake doesn't look professional to me.
- jively 11y ago
  Ah yes, noted!
viklas 11y ago
Congrats guys! You know we're big fans of Tyk already (it says so right there in the testimonial) Highly recommend this to anyone looking for a modern, light, powerful API management platform/service. We use the on-prem, open-souce version but I'm sure the SaaS version is just as good. (no affiliation here...just lovers of great software).
- jively 11y ago
  Thanks so much! :-D
thecodemonkey 11y ago
Congrats on launching. Where are you data center(s) located and what does it mean for API performance? I assume that your service basically works as a reverse proxy in front of my API, but wouldn't there be a noticeable performance penalty if my DC is e.g. in the US and yours is in Europe? Also: You should probably go back and give the FAQ on the pricing page another sweep. https://cloud.tyk.io/pricing https://cloud.tyk.io/pricing assocaited costs = associated costs when you create a new API = When you create a new API don;t = don't to name a few :)
- jively 11y ago
  Cheers, spelling has improved :-/ damned sausage fingers! Our servers are currently in the US as that's where the market is (from what we've found, so far). It's something we've thought about and we will be looking at doing international deployments as soon as there is demand. For API performance, a cloud-based setup does mean an increase in latency, but that is why our solution can be self-hosted too, it's a trade-off that works on a scale, you can start off with a cloud service, with quite straightforward integration and then as your API usage grows look at using Tyk within your own data centers.
  - HenryTheHorse 11y ago
    > Our servers are currently in the US as that's where the market is And yet your pricing page shows rates in GBP, not USD. What's up with that?
- markthethomas 11y ago
  also heder !== header :) (under security and access control section)
sarreph 11y ago
Why are you using Sam Soffes'[1] photo for a testimonial by someone called 'Luke B'? [1] http://soff.es/about/ http://soff.es/about/
- jively 11y ago
  Ah, good point - legacy assets in the template, they'll need updating.
  - viklas 11y ago
    Here you go: https://www.dropbox.com/s/upjkq61j06qmjoa/Screenshot%202015-06-08%2022.39.01.png?dl=0 https://www.dropbox.com/s/upjkq61j06qmjoa/Screenshot%202015-... #theRealLukeB (although template Luke looks cooler)
    - jively 11y ago
      Amazing, thanks! :-D
    - jively 11y ago
      Done and updated - thank #TheRealLukeB! :-)
pharaohgeek 11y ago
Congratulations on your launch! I'd love to hear some regular updates on how the company is doing and how the product is being received. So often I read this exciting and interesting launch announcement, and then... nothing. Did they succeed? Did they flop? I'm always interested in hearing things beyond the launch. Keep us updated!
- jively 11y ago
  Will do! We atually started as an open source / licensed hybrid model. Then moved to offer all of our software for free and charge for support. Moving to a cloud platform was a natural next step - not only is it a great way to demo the tech and on-board new users, but it's also a great way to accelarate features for the rest of our users. You wouldn't believe how indebted we are to our community that give us feedback and feature suggestions, it's quite amazing really.
  - pharaohgeek 11y ago
    What language/platform is Tyk written in/designed for? I'm always curious about what SaaS vendors are using. There's so much variety and different approaches.
hesdeadjim 11y ago
How does price scale when you exceed the number of requests allowed in a plan?
- jively 11y ago
  You would need to upgrade to the next tier - we're working on adding "soft maximums", currently they are hard cut-offs. We would, most likely allow a certain % overage, then notify the user, with some kind fo three strikes rule to upgrade plans.
marcuniq 11y ago
How does Tyk differentiate from Kong(http://getkong.org/ http://getkong.org/)?
- jively 11y ago
  Tyk (self-hosted) offers a dashboard and analytics for free out of the box. :-) Tyk Cloud was very much built to make the open source and free versions better (and sustainable), so I think there's probably some differences in motivation. Ultimately we're trying to solve the same problems, which is great, we're seeing more and more projects try to make API management better, just noticed the other day that a new ruby-based app has shown up called API Umbrella (http://apiumbrella.io/ http://apiumbrella.io/)! It's getting busier, which is great news for API developers.

36 points by jively 11y ago

Sounds nice! But... Maybe it's just a pet peeve of mine, but seeing, twice, images/videos of gears that wouldn't work, is irritating. Such a mistake doesn't look professional to me.

jively 11y ago
Ah yes, noted!

viklas 11y ago

Congrats guys! You know we're big fans of Tyk already (it says so right there in the testimonial) Highly recommend this to anyone looking for a modern, light, powerful API management platform/service. We use the on-prem, open-souce version but I'm sure the SaaS version is just as good. (no affiliation here...just lovers of great software).

jively 11y ago
Thanks so much! :-D

thecodemonkey 11y ago

Congrats on launching. Where are you data center(s) located and what does it mean for API performance? I assume that your service basically works as a reverse proxy in front of my API, but wouldn't there be a noticeable performance penalty if my DC is e.g. in the US and yours is in Europe? Also: You should probably go back and give the FAQ on the pricing page another sweep. https://cloud.tyk.io/pricing https://cloud.tyk.io/pricing assocaited costs = associated costs when you create a new API = When you create a new API don;t = don't to name a few :)

jively 11y ago
Cheers, spelling has improved :-/ damned sausage fingers! Our servers are currently in the US as that's where the market is (from what we've found, so far). It's something we've thought about and we will be looking at doing international deployments as soon as there is demand. For API performance, a cloud-based setup does mean an increase in latency, but that is why our solution can be self-hosted too, it's a trade-off that works on a scale, you can start off with a cloud service, with quite straightforward integration and then as your API usage grows look at using Tyk within your own data centers.
- HenryTheHorse 11y ago
  > Our servers are currently in the US as that's where the market is And yet your pricing page shows rates in GBP, not USD. What's up with that?
markthethomas 11y ago
also heder !== header :) (under security and access control section)

sarreph 11y ago

Why are you using Sam Soffes'[1] photo for a testimonial by someone called 'Luke B'? [1] http://soff.es/about/ http://soff.es/about/

jively 11y ago
Ah, good point - legacy assets in the template, they'll need updating.
- viklas 11y ago
  Here you go: https://www.dropbox.com/s/upjkq61j06qmjoa/Screenshot%202015-06-08%2022.39.01.png?dl=0 https://www.dropbox.com/s/upjkq61j06qmjoa/Screenshot%202015-... #theRealLukeB (although template Luke looks cooler)
  - jively 11y ago
    Amazing, thanks! :-D
  - jively 11y ago
    Done and updated - thank #TheRealLukeB! :-)

pharaohgeek 11y ago

Congratulations on your launch! I'd love to hear some regular updates on how the company is doing and how the product is being received. So often I read this exciting and interesting launch announcement, and then... nothing. Did they succeed? Did they flop? I'm always interested in hearing things beyond the launch. Keep us updated!

jively 11y ago
Will do! We atually started as an open source / licensed hybrid model. Then moved to offer all of our software for free and charge for support. Moving to a cloud platform was a natural next step - not only is it a great way to demo the tech and on-board new users, but it's also a great way to accelarate features for the rest of our users. You wouldn't believe how indebted we are to our community that give us feedback and feature suggestions, it's quite amazing really.
- pharaohgeek 11y ago
  What language/platform is Tyk written in/designed for? I'm always curious about what SaaS vendors are using. There's so much variety and different approaches.

hesdeadjim 11y ago

How does price scale when you exceed the number of requests allowed in a plan?

jively 11y ago
You would need to upgrade to the next tier - we're working on adding "soft maximums", currently they are hard cut-offs. We would, most likely allow a certain % overage, then notify the user, with some kind fo three strikes rule to upgrade plans.

marcuniq 11y ago

How does Tyk differentiate from Kong(http://getkong.org/ http://getkong.org/)?

jively 11y ago
Tyk (self-hosted) offers a dashboard and analytics for free out of the box. :-) Tyk Cloud was very much built to make the open source and free versions better (and sustainable), so I think there's probably some differences in motivation. Ultimately we're trying to solve the same problems, which is great, we're seeing more and more projects try to make API management better, just noticed the other day that a new ruby-based app has shown up called API Umbrella (http://apiumbrella.io/ http://apiumbrella.io/)! It's getting busier, which is great news for API developers.