Kite
Dev tools
hosted development environment
SHOW HN2013
95points
26comments
#237of 1,739 in 2013
Top 14%of 2013 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
9 positive, 6 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 2 critical, out of 18 comments about the project. Thread score +0.32.
Idea: 7 for, 2 againstPerformance: 1 for, 0 againstDesign: 1 for, 0 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Zero setup and one-click environment is intuitive and useful
From 3 comments
This sounds really intuitive and simple to use! I'd love to use this to develop my Rails applications. I would be using Kite as a 100% staging server to test things out before…
sergiotapia on HNVery cool! The one-click setup blew my mind. The only other thing I would expect with this is some kind of vcs integration, like git integration.
Kortaggio on HNLove this. As a novice developer, I think I spend 90% of my time dealing with problems I have because of the OS I'm running or other things I have installed. A solution like this…
davidedicillo on HN
Useful for prototypes, staging and learning to program
From 3 comments
Love it, this is great. I'd definitely use it for quick prototypes and hackatons. It says "No setup, No configuration". But what if I want to configure stuff? For instance,…
d0m on HNThis sounds really intuitive and simple to use! I'd love to use this to develop my Rails applications. I would be using Kite as a 100% staging server to test things out before…
sergiotapia on HNLove this. As a novice developer, I think I spend 90% of my time dealing with problems I have because of the OS I'm running or other things I have installed. A solution like this…
davidedicillo on HN
Objections
Similar in name to PageKite, which exposes local environments instead
From 2 comments
Looks interesting. But, a similar solution exists with a similar name called PageKite (https://pagekite.net/). They do not deploy your application code to the cloud. With…
jzcoder on HNI agree your approach has a different set of advantages. It's just the end goal is similar and the name is so similar. That's more the point I was trying to make.
jzcoder on HN
Unclear how configuration, services and production deployment would work
From 2 comments
Love it, this is great. I'd definitely use it for quick prototypes and hackatons. It says "No setup, No configuration". But what if I want to configure stuff? For instance,…
d0m on HNLooks slick, but how is this different from just running "django-admin.py startproject mysite"? When developing something serious, you typically want to match the stack you will…
sologoub on HN
Requests
Support for git or version control integration
From 1 comment
Very cool! The one-click setup blew my mind. The only other thing I would expect with this is some kind of vcs integration, like git integration.
Kortaggio on HN
Support for custom images, such as Packer or Vagrant
From 1 comment
I think this would be interesting if you could extend something like packer that was on HN the other day. It's great to instantly have a dev environment for everyone but I'm…
zbruhnke on HN
Ability to configure stack versions such as Ruby 2.0 and Rails 4.0
From 1 comment
How do I configure my own stack if I need to? For instance, I would like to use Ruby 2.0 and Rails 4.0 instead of Ruby 1.9 and Rails 3.2?
jasdeepsingh on HN
Questions
What is the pricing or payment plan
From 2 comments
Very cool! I want to know what is the payment plan of Kite? Thanks.
zfz on HNI assume this will be free for the duration of the beta, and I assume you haven't decided (or aren't ready to publish) what pricing and resource quotas will be like? Some…
csense on HN
How merge conflicts are handled when files sync across machines
From 1 comment
First off, very cool! Nice work. If multiple developers can modify files at the same time, how do you handle merge conflicts when syncing?
natejenkins on HN
Alternatives named
PageKite
From 1 comment
Looks interesting. But, a similar solution exists with a similar name called PageKite (https://pagekite.net/). They do not deploy your application code to the cloud. With…
jzcoder on HN
Heroku
From 2 comments
Looks slick, but how is this different from just running "django-admin.py startproject mysite"? When developing something serious, you typically want to match the stack you will…
sologoub on HNI think this would be interesting if you could extend something like packer that was on HN the other day. It's great to instantly have a dev environment for everyone but I'm…
zbruhnke on HN
Google App Engine
From 1 comment
Looks slick, but how is this different from just running "django-admin.py startproject mysite"? When developing something serious, you typically want to match the stack you will…
sologoub on HN
django-admin startproject
From 1 comment
Looks slick, but how is this different from just running "django-admin.py startproject mysite"? When developing something serious, you typically want to match the stack you will…
sologoub on HN