There are a few links in the post that link to our signup page, but it's tough to see with the dark background. Maybe it's time to change the background color of our blog...
Since the blog doesn't have an immediately obvious link to the actual product homepage, here you go: https://www.nitrous.io/
My synopsis: A server provisioning, web-based IDE that allows for collaborative development.
To the OP and owners, please correct me if I'm wrong but, either put that in the title of the post or add it as an addendum to your blog posts. At the very least, put a clear link to your main site on your blog.
All that being said, the service does look pretty cool. Congrats on the public beta.
Edit: Changed as the blog does have links to the home page, they're just not immediately obvious. My apologies.
"Create a free box now!" and "Sign-up for free now!" should be "Find out how we can dramatically improve your development workflow" or some such (better copy).
The currect text assumes that you know what the service is.
Admittedly, I missed the "home" button in the top right as I assumed the logo would take me to the home page, not to the blog. I stopped trying after that.
This is a common thread on HN with launch announcements. I'm not sure why everyone avoids the blog pre-amble for posts destined for link aggregators:
"Nitrous.IO, the groundbreaking developer toolset that enables fast provisioning and web-based coding and collaboration is pleased to announce the first public beta. To find out more, check out our quick introduction..."
Then move on to specifics. I'm not a copy-editor, but a leading sentence like this would go along way to help.
The pricing seems really odd to me. Beyond the free tier of 1 machine, 400MB RAM, and 1GB storage, the monthly costs are $10/machine, $23/GB RAM, and $28/10 GB storage. The machine and RAM prices seem reasonable, but the disk space price is exorbitant. You're basically paying 1/3 of the price of a 1TB hard drive, monthly, for 10GB of storage. I wonder what the logic is behind making storage so expensive.
I'm not exactly sure why it's so expensive, but it's not like you will need it. The whole point of Nitrous.io is that it's a cloud ide. Unless you are deploying a huge app (and if you're deploying a huge app, you probably don't need a cloud IDE), you won't touch it.
I'm gonna upvote this, because i just got a free box. kind of lol at the hackers who couldn't find the link to the home page, I wouldn't worry about that.
One gripe is it doesn't show what kind of box it is after you make it. Another is no laravel+php box.
Thanks for putting go on there. Good luck I wish yall the best.
Just deployed a nodejs app to nitrous.io. Coming from a heroku background, there are some quirks here and there. Wrote up a tutorial about how to deploy nodejs apps on Nitrous if you have never done anything like that before: http://songz.quora.com/Deploying-your-app-on-Nitrous-using-N...
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[ 3.1 ms ] story [ 24.4 ms ] threadThere are a few links in the post that link to our signup page, but it's tough to see with the dark background. Maybe it's time to change the background color of our blog...
My synopsis: A server provisioning, web-based IDE that allows for collaborative development.
To the OP and owners, please correct me if I'm wrong but, either put that in the title of the post or add it as an addendum to your blog posts. At the very least, put a clear link to your main site on your blog.
All that being said, the service does look pretty cool. Congrats on the public beta.
Edit: Changed as the blog does have links to the home page, they're just not immediately obvious. My apologies.
The currect text assumes that you know what the service is.
Admittedly, I missed the "home" button in the top right as I assumed the logo would take me to the home page, not to the blog. I stopped trying after that.
This is a common thread on HN with launch announcements. I'm not sure why everyone avoids the blog pre-amble for posts destined for link aggregators:
"Nitrous.IO, the groundbreaking developer toolset that enables fast provisioning and web-based coding and collaboration is pleased to announce the first public beta. To find out more, check out our quick introduction..."
Then move on to specifics. I'm not a copy-editor, but a leading sentence like this would go along way to help.
I dont work at Nitrous, just happy with them so far.
Something like http://try.kendoui.com/
One gripe is it doesn't show what kind of box it is after you make it. Another is no laravel+php box.
Thanks for putting go on there. Good luck I wish yall the best.
https://www.nitrous.io/join/AqqPlW923Js