I have the same experience. My friends had weekly weekend game nights where we played Wii Sports until the early hours of the next morning. I had my own Wiimote that I took with me and I didn't even own a Wii at the time.
That's exactly how I feel about it. Line length is something I couldn't care less about. If it makes sense to be on one line, then it should be. Otherwise, create the new line where it does make sense.
I love lobste.rs but I do have one complaint: The Tags, metadata and noise around the topic titles makes it difficult to scan for interesting topics. HN is so easy to just look down the list and find something interesting to read or discuss.
I walked over the bully and told them to their face that I did not appreciate the way they were talking to me. That I will not accept or tolerate being treated the way they were attempting to treat me. I then wrote an email to their manager with what happened, copied the conversation that was had in chat and explained that we are adults and that behavior was not acceptable. Their manager had a talk with them and it hasn't happened again.
I was/am prepared to forward my communication to HR if the time comes where they try to bully again.
I would say the reasons I wouldn't download it:
- No video showing game play.
- The static screenshots don't really tell a story.
- The icon doesn't speak with me or convey a brand or idea. Sure it says Chainy but as I scroll through a million other apps in the store it doesn't catch my attention. I doubt I would even give it a pause.
Give Chainy a more eye catching icon, maybe a YouTube video with some sample play. I think those two things would definitely help grab a few more downloads. Oh and post a link, the video and a description around on blogs, forums, reddit, etc but don't be pushy.
DO isn't in the same market as this, at least going off their websites. DO means doing all the work yourself. Netlify handles everything.
I don't think the pricing is too high. If anything, the high end is too low. It's not like they're aiming at personal sites, are they? And for a company, $39 is nothing -- plans should probably start there. (Seriously, who wants to service a customer for $7 a month?)
FWIW I've never seen or heard of Netlify before in my life.
You raise an interesting point. The prices seem too high for some commenters. They are presumably capable of doing this themselves on a DO box so they do not think it is valuable enough to justify that price.
However, one of the features of their highest price ($39/month) plan is that you can use 100 custom domains. If you have 100 domains hosted on Route 53 you will be paying over $50/month for domains, at which point $39/month for the service which actually hosts your static site is entirely negligible. I am curious how many people fall in to that bucket though - it seems more likely that people will run multiple sites with few custom domains, rather than a single site with 100 custom domains.
I am planning to offer some of Netlify's services in a product I am currently building. I'm still working on the pricing model but it is likely to be based on builds per month and bandwidth/storage, rather than the actual number of sites. My cost driver is not 'how many domain names are configured in my HTTP-routing layer', but rather 'how much pressure is each site putting on my build and web servers'.
Netlify never misses an opportunity to self-promote in these SSG related threads, but AWS S3/Cloudfront/route53 is so cheap and simple for the audience that would even understand the point of Netlify, it's difficult to understand their target market. Netlify is priced like Squarespace, Wix, Weebly, etc. which are quite a bit simpler.
The fact that I can click on their homepage and drag-n-drop a site folder and have it just work is pretty damn slick. $39 is nothing if you don't have to deal with stuff. The absolute cheapest guys I work with are at least $50/hr. So if it saves an hour here and there it's worth it. And more likely, you'll spend 3-4 figures in time if there's any sort of hiccup in your AWS setup.
I don't think people are thinking how nice it is to have someone take care of stuff for you, totally. If there's any sort of issue, one email, and you're done. And people aren't thinking how tiny $39 is.
Again, I've never heard of Netlify before, but the product sounds great. HN is just messed up on pricing because they're looking at AWS costs instead of customer value.
I think HN also devalues their own time: I've been running webservers since the 90s, so I know it's "easy" to do, yet it's one more thing to have to think about. Although I suppose some might enjoy it.
I think they could be much improved by allowing all the features to be modified with sliders and checkboxes with the Free/Advanced/Pro presented as presets.
Does that actually work? I know it's appealing to tech types, but it's confusing to people in general. They probably are better off going unlimited on a few things if they can. People are incredibly weird about usage-based pricing.
Plus it creates barriers by giving people something to bikeshed over before buying. In fact, I'd wager they're probably better off going to Unlimited on a few more things where they can, and only really focusing on the things that separate high paying customers from smaller ones.
They are advertising in a thread about GitHub pages. I'd expect private pages/unpaid open-source projects are the vast majority of users of GitHub pages.
Plus a lot of headaches of maintaining a machine and an OS running on that machine that cost you if you value your time. Static sites + platform = stateless.
I'd compare this service to CDNs + HTTP Object storage combos like CloudFront+S3. (Still makes this look expensive since those cost cents/GB)
