M3O
Infrastructure
cloud platform
SHOW HN2021
33points
16comments
#1,091of 2,533 in 2021
Top 44%of 2021 by points
How HN took it
RoastedHalf or more of the comments are critical
1 positive, 0 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 6 critical, out of 7 comments about the project. Thread score -0.44.
Idea: 1 for, 3 againstDocs: 0 for, 3 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Underlying code is sound
From 1 comment
I don't think it's a bad product, I think the underlying code is sound, but I'm a bit confused by all the pivoting, as I mentioned in one of the other threads.
vr46 on HN
Good luck to the launch
From 1 comment
Congratulations on the launch! micro/m3o looks like a lot of work. > AWS is a fairly complex beast which makes it hard for new developers to get started. In the past we needed…
ignoramous on HN
Objections
Unclear what the product is; seems to be APIs rather than a deployable cloud
From 2 comments
You must be reading something in this that I am not. Its calling itself a public cloud, but you cant deploy your own apps to it. Instead it appears to be a collection of APIs,…
supermatt on HNThanks. Yeah, thats totally not clear from their website, lol :D
supermatt on HN
Looks like a reseller of another cloud provider
From 1 comment
> M3O is built on existing public cloud infrastructure using managed kubernetes along with our own infrastructure automation and abstraction layer for existing third party public…
dijit on HN
No way to host web apps, DNS or static files
From 1 comment
As far as I can tell, only serverless function calls and deployments actually incur costs? Not sure how I’d actually host a web app/site on it, there doesn’t appear to be any…
dinedal on HN
No documentation on high availability or reliability
From 1 comment
As far as I can tell, only serverless function calls and deployments actually incur costs? Not sure how I’d actually host a web app/site on it, there doesn’t appear to be any…
dinedal on HN
Repeated HN posts and pivoting
From 3 comments
Didn't we just do this twice recently? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28851167 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28878445
vr46 on HNSpamming HN while looking to promote their own product in a rather off-putting way... I can't be the only one to think this looks like a project born dead, producing no…
0xbkt on HNI don't think it's a bad product, I think the underlying code is sound, but I'm a bit confused by all the pivoting, as I mentioned in one of the other threads.
vr46 on HN
Requests
Clearer website explaining the product
From 1 comment
Thanks. Yeah, thats totally not clear from their website, lol :D
supermatt on HN
Better commit messages
From 2 comments
> M3O is built on existing public cloud infrastructure using managed kubernetes along with our own infrastructure automation and abstraction layer for existing third party public…
dijit on HNMaybe I'm a bit triggered because when taking over a project I was greeted by: https://imgur.com/a/iuWUcjr It's a bit odd to call it a "strangers" project. I mean, you're right,…
dijit on HN
Questions
Why use M3O instead of EKS or GKE directly
From 1 comment
> M3O is built on existing public cloud infrastructure using managed kubernetes along with our own infrastructure automation and abstraction layer for existing third party public…
dijit on HN
How to host a web app or static site on it
From 1 comment
As far as I can tell, only serverless function calls and deployments actually incur costs? Not sure how I’d actually host a web app/site on it, there doesn’t appear to be any…
dinedal on HN
Alternatives named
Fly.io
From 1 comment
Congratulations on the launch! micro/m3o looks like a lot of work. > AWS is a fairly complex beast which makes it hard for new developers to get started. In the past we needed…
ignoramous on HN
Supabase
From 1 comment
Congratulations on the launch! micro/m3o looks like a lot of work. > AWS is a fairly complex beast which makes it hard for new developers to get started. In the past we needed…
ignoramous on HN
Replit, Railway, Render, Glitch, Vercel, Netlify
From 1 comment
Congratulations on the launch! micro/m3o looks like a lot of work. > AWS is a fairly complex beast which makes it hard for new developers to get started. In the past we needed…
ignoramous on HN
AWS, EKS, GKE
From 1 comment
> M3O is built on existing public cloud infrastructure using managed kubernetes along with our own infrastructure automation and abstraction layer for existing third party public…
dijit on HN