Fanout
Infrastructure
push messaging proxy
SHOW HN2017
84points
38comments
#537of 2,242 in 2017
Top 24%of 2017 by points
How HN took it
CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments
1 positive, 12 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 7 critical, out of 21 comments about the project. Thread score -0.34.
Execution: 0 for, 3 againstIdea: 1 for, 1 againstPerformance: 0 for, 1 againstPricing: 0 for, 1 againstDocs: 0 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Pushpin open source project is well regarded
From 1 comment
I'm a big fan of pushpin. 1.This landing page doesn't make the use cases clear. I think you need to show architecture comparisons that makes it clear. Ex:…
boundlessdreamz on HN
Interesting product
From 1 comment
Awesome landing page, very interesting product. One question, is hosting it yourself free, or are you trying to sell support? I'd rather not contact your sales team to find out,…
orf on HN
Objections
Landing page does not make use cases clear
From 2 comments
I'm a big fan of pushpin. 1.This landing page doesn't make the use cases clear. I think you need to show architecture comparisons that makes it clear. Ex:…
boundlessdreamz on HNNice. Some ideas for the landing page: - You don't have any use cases. Good technical explanations for sure, but generally people "get" a product better/faster with some examples…
HenriNext on HN
Pricing page is confusing and charges for too many metrics
From 1 comment
I'm a big fan of pushpin. 1.This landing page doesn't make the use cases clear. I think you need to show architecture comparisons that makes it clear. Ex:…
boundlessdreamz on HN
Free plan too stingy
From 1 comment
Nice. Some ideas for the landing page: - You don't have any use cases. Good technical explanations for sure, but generally people "get" a product better/faster with some examples…
HenriNext on HN
Self-hosting pricing is not transparent
From 2 comments
Awesome landing page, very interesting product. One question, is hosting it yourself free, or are you trying to sell support? I'd rather not contact your sales team to find out,…
orf on HN> I rarely see this elsewhere, but I can imagine how it may reduce friction. Worth considering. Nginx Plus - https://www.nginx.com/products/buy-nginx-plus/ Github -…
boundlessdreamz on HN
Only one point of presence, so latency is high
From 2 comments
At several times in this thread (including parent comment) you refer to your service as a "push CDN". You compare it to Fastly in one response. CDNs have many well-connected…
apeace on HNI'm a big fan of pushpin. 1.This landing page doesn't make the use cases clear. I think you need to show architecture comparisons that makes it clear. Ex:…
boundlessdreamz on HN
Site login returns errors
From 2 comments
I signed up, but when logging in I am greeted with a 500 error :/
chrisabrams on HNFYI, if you leave the email and password blank on https://fanout.io/account/login/ you get sent to an Apache default Server Error (500) error message page. Should probably…
dvt on HN
Requests
Clearer use cases and architecture comparisons on landing page
From 2 comments
I'm a big fan of pushpin. 1.This landing page doesn't make the use cases clear. I think you need to show architecture comparisons that makes it clear. Ex:…
boundlessdreamz on HNNice. Some ideas for the landing page: - You don't have any use cases. Good technical explanations for sure, but generally people "get" a product better/faster with some examples…
HenriNext on HN
Transparent pricing for on-premise and cloud
From 2 comments
I'm a big fan of pushpin. 1.This landing page doesn't make the use cases clear. I think you need to show architecture comparisons that makes it clear. Ex:…
boundlessdreamz on HN> I rarely see this elsewhere, but I can imagine how it may reduce friction. Worth considering. Nginx Plus - https://www.nginx.com/products/buy-nginx-plus/ Github -…
boundlessdreamz on HN
More points of presence
From 1 comment
At several times in this thread (including parent comment) you refer to your service as a "push CDN". You compare it to Fastly in one response. CDNs have many well-connected…
apeace on HN
Documentation on self-hosting
From 1 comment
Awesome landing page, very interesting product. One question, is hosting it yourself free, or are you trying to sell support? I'd rather not contact your sales team to find out,…
orf on HN
Questions
How does it differ from plain WebSockets or MQTT over WebSockets
From 2 comments
Hey, how is this diff from a simple WebSockets implementation?
basicsbeauty on HNOr MQTT over WebSockets?
tuukkah on HN
How does it compare to PubNub
From 1 comment
How do you compare it with PubNub?
pt on HN
How does it compare to Nginx or Nchan
From 1 comment
How does this compare to NginX ? Is this something like reverse proxying Webhooks(for real time push). There is a push stream module for NginX that kind of works the same way.
pramodzion on HN
Is self-hosting free
From 1 comment
Awesome landing page, very interesting product. One question, is hosting it yourself free, or are you trying to sell support? I'd rather not contact your sales team to find out,…
orf on HN
Alternatives named
Socket.io
From 1 comment
Socket.io also proxies websocket events as HTTP if needed. So is this is basically socket.io as a service?
Xeoncross on HN
PubNub
From 1 comment
How do you compare it with PubNub?
pt on HN
Nginx with Nchan
From 1 comment
How does this compare to NginX ? Is this something like reverse proxying Webhooks(for real time push). There is a push stream module for NginX that kind of works the same way.
pramodzion on HN
Plain WebSockets
From 1 comment
Hey, how is this diff from a simple WebSockets implementation?
basicsbeauty on HN