Comment by marcamillion

Wow...I can't believe this comment is the first in the thread.

HN is not about technical purity...it's about hackers getting shit done.

You may think that getting a 'vanilla' Rails App deployed to the cloud and being able to do editing in your browser is trivial - because you have invested a ton of work in your own setup and you are entitled to that.

But when did HN become a place where on the thread announcing a major achievement - the shipping of what seems like a damn good product, that may solve a pain point for many people - people are shitting all over it because of some language/community war? Really?

I am a Rails developer, sure...I may not have as much experience as you do building web apps or even programming, but anything that removes the friction of me getting a product out the door is perfect.

While I can't say I would necessarily pay for this immediately, but I can see it having immense value.

As someone that has wrestled with getting Rails setup on various operating systems for people that aren't Rails developers but need access to the source, like a front-end dev that only uses Windows for instance, having something like this is pretty awesome.

I can just push my app here and the front-end dev can edit the code in the browser....without having to worry about installing Rails (or even having the app installed) locally.

I am sure many other people think that this looks like an awesome product - hence the many upvotes.

I just don't understand how this comment got so much attention and how, after scrolling through many replies, I haven't seen someone address this issue.

This is HN. Hacker News. For Hackers. By Hackers.

Not Ruby land. Not Python land. Not Computer Science land. Sure, we all talk about those stuff.

But our #1 focus is on people that get shit done.

These guys have done so.

Congrats. The product looks kick-ass.

I await my trial.