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Ask HN: Raising a "super seed" round from a prominent VC
1 points by danoprey 14y ago|1 comments
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by danoprey 14y ago
I already commented on the post, but our startup ( http://www.madeiracloud.com/ ) is a tool to manage IaaS visually.
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MadeiraCloud makes it really easy (and beautiful) to share entire apps on AWS(madeiracloud.com)
1 points by danoprey 14y ago|0 comments
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by danoprey 14y ago
I'm working on http://www.madeiracloud.com/ a tool to visually build, manage and monitor your architecture on the public cloud. In public beta at the moment, anyone can sign up free in just a minute. Still early days, so any feedback can
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by danoprey 14y ago
It's much worse, in my opinion, nothing beats a straight stream.
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by danoprey 14y ago
Don't know if it's the same definition, but their GigaOM post defines light as: “light” AWS users — those with fewer than 8 instances http://gigaom.com/cloud/newvem-pulls-back-the-curtain-on-ama... Obviously it wouldn't make sense for peo
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by danoprey 15y ago
What's the advantage over using the middle mouse button?
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by danoprey 15y ago
We are implementing this suggestion at the moment, thanks a lot for the fantastic feedback.
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by danoprey 15y ago
Haha. Well I am the designer of the www, my and ide site, and whilst I like Heroku's site, I don't "sweat it hard"! But seriously, thanks for this, I thought beyond the dark colour scheme and (very different shades of) purple there wasn't m
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by danoprey 15y ago
That's a good idea, although it would limit the features to just being a diagramming tool, but at least they can take a look. Really good suggestion, will give it some consideration, thanks.
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by danoprey 15y ago
Aha.. I see, great point, thank you. You are right, that definitely needs changing. You should still be able to reset your password, but obviously that's a pretty poor process. I'll look in to changing that right away, thanks again.
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by danoprey 15y ago
Sorry, I tried to get a balance between showing what we currently support and what we are working towards on the homepage, not sure if I got it right. RDS support is coming soon (approximately one month) and ELB support to be added shortly
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by danoprey 15y ago
Thanks for the feedback. Can I ask what you would suggest as an alternative for people wanting to try the product? Our app is useless without access to the AWS APIs, and although IAM credentials could be created (as people below have), for
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by danoprey 15y ago
Thanks for the honest criticism. I mostly agree and a video demo is in the works, although a full dummy demo would divert considerable resources away from developing the product at this stage.
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by danoprey 15y ago
Yes, I agree, but fortunate in the case that it's not as big a problem for us as it could be.
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by danoprey 15y ago
That's a great idea, thank you. We are planning to add import/export to CloudFormation anyway, but what you are suggesting sounds like we wouldn't even have to ask for any credentials (as long as the user isn't using custom AMIs/SnapShots)
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by danoprey 15y ago
Because we launch instances and volumes, create AMIs, SnapShots, KeyPairs and security groups, read only access would not suffice. We have considered creating an IAM template, but it would need nearly the same permissions as full access. Bu
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by danoprey 15y ago
Unfortunately, our app relies on the AWS APIs, so without your credentials there's not a lot you will be able to do. We combined the AWS and password forms because we were getting a lot of support requests from people not entering them, so
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by danoprey 15y ago
We did indeed! http://goo.gl/PYNYB
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by danoprey 15y ago
It is fair to point this out, it is an understandable concern to people where a company is located, especially when dealing with sensitive data. We don't try to hide the fact that we are based in Beijing (it is our location on our Twitter p
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by danoprey 15y ago
You are correct. We wanted to get something out to get feedback on and wanted to balance disappointing people with showing what we are working towards on the promotional site. The features on the homepage will all be available for use in th
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by danoprey 15y ago
Yes, the live version currently only supports EBS and EC2, with RDS following soon (approximately one month) and ELB support to be added shortly after that. I appreciate that the currently supported services does limit the scope of applicat
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by danoprey 15y ago
Do you think it's too similar? I love the dark design of Heroku, and obviously we also have purple branding, but I didn't think beyond that it was too similar. I'll take it as a compliment, Heroku has a brilliant site and I hope ours can be
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by danoprey 15y ago
Thank you very much! It is indeed, but we haven't come across anyone who takes our approach, so hopefully it will be enough to differentiate ourselves. We launched our private beta in February and haven't done any paid marketing since then,
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by danoprey 15y ago
Good spot, the my site is Rubik > Ginkgo > Custom.
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by danoprey 15y ago
The my site is indeed using Rubik as a base theme, Ginkgo (an Open Atrium theme) as a child theme and then a custom theme on top of that. The www site is a heavily customised theme built on top of Twitter Bootstrap 2. The ide site is 100% h
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by danoprey 15y ago
We're not, no, but it is a beautiful word and also happens to be a South American river which is the largest tributary to some other river in the rainforest ;-)
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by danoprey 15y ago
Thanks a lot! It certainly has been an issue, lots of requests and suggestions to make entering AWS credentials optional, but as you say, without the right permissions it would be useless. Fortunately, it's the same for all third party tool
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Show HN: MadeiraCloud lets you draw AWS architecture and clone apps in minutes(madeiracloud.com)
87 points by danoprey 15y ago|48 comments
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by danoprey 15y ago
The "GET STARTED" link on the homepage just seems to be a span wrapped in a button with no link. Not working for me in Chrome 18. Too many of your links seem to be javascript dependent. Whilst it can make nice fancy effects, it can easily g

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