Polybit
Infrastructure
api hosting platform
SHOW HN2016
151points
49comments
#216of 2,264 in 2016
Top 10%of 2016 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
7 positive, 8 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 14 critical, out of 30 comments about the project. Thread score -0.23.
Pricing: 1 for, 6 againstExecution: 1 for, 6 againstIdea: 2 for, 1 againstDocs: 0 for, 1 againstDesign: 1 for, 0 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Attractive website design and command-line signup
From 2 comments
Awesome website design, the fact I register using command linea is extremelly cool. Nice touch
CLei on HNI am surprised Nodal still uses 90% of Nordic Semiconductor's logo :/ Love the website design!
dazhbog on HN
Maker is responsive and approachable
From 2 comments
Congrats Keith :D I've met Keith a few weeks ago at the NodeJS NYC meetup. Great dude, who genuinely wants to make development better. Polybit seems particularly cool for…
ThatMightBePaul on HNKeith is awesome. I've met him a few times to chat about Polybit and he is seriously dedicated to making a great developer product and solving the pain of standing up a backend…
jamesjyu on HN
Objections
Credit-based pricing is hard to predict and expensive at scale
From 4 comments
I realize this style of pricing is the new hotness and I get why it's appealing for the company providing the service, but as a developer this is really unappealing to me. The…
ebbv on HNHow often do the credits refresh? Once per day? Per month? If it's per month it feels very expensive to me especially at the lower tiers compared to the number of transactions…
janekm on HNAnd another example since IoT is mentioned on the website. Imagine I'm selling a temperature sensor gadget that reports once per minute. That's 2 credits * 60 * 24 * 30 per…
janekm on HNThis looks really interesting but I personally really dislike the pricing, maybe others will love it but to me it's nearly impossible to guess how much this will cost me. When I…
joshstrange on HN
Pricing not visible on the website
From 2 comments
The premise of this is a great idea. The sign up is pretty neat - def. suited to expected audience/users. However, no pricing info? I'll come back once pricing is displayed.
mxuribe on HNagreed that pricing should be easily accessible.
netcraft on HN
Bugs in Firefox and console input
From 4 comments
Totally broken for me (after writing "Register"): http://imgur.com/a/cYtZz Browser: Firefox 47 (default browser) Extensions: AdBlockPlus, LastPass OS: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
franciscop on HNBug report: REPL on https://polybit.com/ fails to display fonts. See [1] for a screenshot. Firefox 47.0 on OSX. [1]http://i.imgur.com/ty8PZT9.png The console logs the keydown…
asimuvPR on HNI'm on Windows/Firefox the console only echoes back missing characters.
throwawayReply on HNfeedback: the console in the home page doesn't seem to do anything. (Chrome Android)
stockkid on HN
Requests
Bandwidth-based or flat-fee pricing
From 2 comments
No your not crazy at all! Sometimes it is better to do many smaller requests versus one bigger request, and it would be nice to see a pricing structure based on bandwidth at least.
puddintane on HNThis looks really interesting but I personally really dislike the pricing, maybe others will love it but to me it's nearly impossible to guess how much this will cost me. When I…
joshstrange on HN
Fix copy-paste in registration and console
From 1 comment
Pretty cool stuff. I got stuck a bit in the registration though. I always use a password manager and paste in my passwords. It's telling me it doesn't like my 16 character…
webXL on HN
Add an about page
From 1 comment
Love the idea. I think you really need an about page though. People need to know why they can't trust you.
johns on HN
Questions
How often do credits refresh?
From 1 comment
How often do the credits refresh? Once per day? Per month? If it's per month it feels very expensive to me especially at the lower tiers compared to the number of transactions…
janekm on HN
Can existing Node apps be deployed to Passenger or Dokku instead?
From 1 comment
What would be alternative deployment approach for nodal apps? It is still just node.js app so I should be able to deploy it to phusion passanger or dokku, right?
vittore on HN
Alternatives named
Zeit
From 1 comment
Looks very similar to Zeit: https://zeit.co/
mmanfrin on HN
Heroku, Digital Ocean, Modulus
From 1 comment
Node JS developer here. The idea of the project is great. It can be difficult to get folks up to speed on various Node JS topics, and one of the big ones (like with any code…
joshdickson on HN
Parse
From 1 comment
Thanks :). The truth to anybody reading is that James is the awesome one. Since I first met him early this year to talk about his experience at Parse, he's been one of the most…
keithwhor on HN
Rails and CakePHP scaffolding
From 1 comment
I'm reminded in some sense of RoR/CakePHP with scaffolding. What are some other tools that provide similar functionality ?
udkl on HN