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4 points by mateovalle ↗ HN
So I've been working on this thing called Obelis AI. Basically, I got tired of seeing startups (including my own previous ones) completely ignore infrastructure until it becomes a pain later.

What if you could get that same "just works" experience but on your own AWS account? That's what we're trying to build. AI handles the DevOps headaches, you keep control of your stuff. Still pretty early (beta stage), but I'd love to hear what you think. Especially if you think it's a terrible idea - those are usually the most helpful comments.

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techpineapple
I’m not going to say this is a terrible idea, but I think is is going to be an impossible needle to thread.

I think The hard problem with devops isn’t how to make good terraform code, (I mean it’s not not) but it’s having a good strategy and someone to manage the complexity.

I’m not sure I would want to start on this - if you can do heroku do heroku, and I find it hard to imagine a situation you would want to end up in this middle ground area. Complex enough to not use Heroku but not complex enough to defer someone managing your complexity.

I guess what I would say is, if your tool is “here’s how to easily get deployed on AWS with all the best practices on how to properly build a database/cache/queue etc.” this may miss the mark because for a 2-10 person startup, your devops expert should be inhibitory not excitatory.

mateovalle
Totally fair take and really appreciate the thoughtful response.

I actually agree that the hardest DevOps problems are strategic, not just technical. But I think there is a real need in the middle ground: teams that have outgrown Heroku/Vercel but aren't ready to hire a full-time DevOps person. They want sane defaults, visibility, and scalability, but still want to own their infra for compliance, security, or flexibility.

We're not trying to replace infra strategy, more like handle the 80% that’s boilerplate so teams don’t waste weeks reinventing the same wheel.

techpineapple
Good luck! I've had some desire to design something like this in the past. OPne feature I always wanted to include was a cost summary so people new what they were spending, especially if you say had a portal where each person could request their own things, then you could summarize the cost of those things in the portal.