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obunu
Co-founder of Unubo here. We created this platform because we're dissatisfied with the current landscape:

AWS is a headache. DigitalOcean is great, but you’re on your own in managing it. Heroku gets expensive, fast. Now (Zeit) is serverless only. Netlify only supports static sites.

There are more solutions on the market of course, but they all leave us wanting more.

We drew up an extensive wish list, and went about creating it ourselves.

Unubo Cloud exists to simplify the process of deploying web applications. We want you to focus on creating, whilst we take care of everything else.

This is a starting point, and we have a lot planned for the future.

trulykp
What was your most interesting lesson as you look at all the other competitors (typically big ones like AWS) in your market?
obunu
Within the cloud hosting space, you can find solutions on either end of the spectrum. AWS and DigitalOcean are powerful, but you're on your own in managing them. Things like Netlify and Now (Zeit) are relatively simple to use, but offer a limited feature set.

We sit comfortably in the middle, balancing power and simplicity.

ityre
Just what I needed to start my product journey. Seems simple yet poweful, AWS overwhelmsss. The price is pretty legit. Congrats and best luck!
obunu
Thanks a lot! When you get started, let me know if you have any questions.
maz1b
This is pretty cool. Could end up checking it out for my startup.
obunu
Would be great to have you onboard. Any questions, just let me know.
buzzerbetrayed
Looks great! What other languages/frameworks do you plan on adding in the future?
obunu
We’re going by demand with this. So far most people have requested PHP, so we’re leaning towards that as next language for now.
atum47
Do I need a credit card to use the free service?
obunu
No, you don’t.
advarckcal
What databases do you support?
obunu
Postgres and MySQL coming in our next release.
cabalamat
do you plan on supporting MongoDB or other NoSQL?
sauravt
Very very cool. Just what I was looking for. Now.sh with multiple languages and 24/7 uptime.
obunu
That’s great to hear. Feel free to sign up. Open to any questions or feedback.
throw03172019
The demo looks great. Nice UI as well!

I built something similar a few years ago but we ran into people only wanting to run their prototypes for free. It was hard for us to convince people to use for PROD. How will you tackle this?

obunu
Thank you! People need time to trust you, to host their stuff in prod. We’ll hope to win your trust by listening, iterating, and going for the marathon, not the sprint. Time will serve as a trust builder.
cabalamat
Hi, I've just tried Onubo and I'm both impressed and disappointed.

Impressed because it seems very simple to use. A lot simpler than faffing around with WSGI and nginx.

Disappointed because I couldn't get my app to work, and the error messages were unhelpful. Also there appears to be no help text anywhere.

I think the issue is my requirements.txt is in my root directory, but my Python files are in the /app/ directory below it.

Could you have a look at it? my email is cabalamat@gmail.com and my app is vr2.