I think the nuances of the offering are not entirely clear from the marketing website, so here's what I've interpreted.<p>The product itself seems to be a Node.js framework that glues together various modules, including popular ones such as Express, Mongoose, & Socket.io. How they monetize it is via consulting and hosting, which they offer a fixed price for "unlimited" bandwidth and storage (very unclear how they may throttle this). The pricing is also exceptionally poor, a fast HTTP implementation may respond to 250k requests per second vs a month, and 5 GB of storage for $50 a month...<p>They seem to not have any sort of release strategy and the readme states to clone their repository. It would require pulling from their repo to update it as a dependency. There are also absolutely no tests, so you don't know if the latest commit is working or contains some work in progress or not. The signup process seems to be needlessly difficult, one needs to manually craft an HTTP request to some endpoint with some payload.<p>The "AI to build exceptional apps" pitch is vague. I can think of some possible cases such as automatic indexing based on querying patterns, but this is just speculative. I wouldn't trust it unless I know what it does.
On their website [1], they make it look like WhatsApp, Slack, and Instagram are all using their service, when in reality it's their own implementation of "similar" services.<p>Seems fishy.<p>[1] <a href="https://www.cloudboost.io/" rel="nofollow">https://www.cloudboost.io/</a>
CloudBoost looks amazing. I can tell they've put a ton of effort into the app, docs, and website.<p>This brings me to their problem... Pricing! Their pricing (<a href="https://www.cloudboost.io/pricing" rel="nofollow">https://www.cloudboost.io/pricing</a>) makes little to zero sense. First it is priced too low, a sign of future problems ahead. Second, I think they've got the entire model wrong. They should charge for bundles of API calls and GB of storage. Pay for what you use like cloud providers.<p>An example of pricing I would implement might look like $10 per GB of storage and $0.15 every 1k of API calls.<p>Thus a smallish example application that uses 2 GB of storage and makes 500,000 API calls a month would pay $95 / month.
Algolia's pitch is "much better results than you'd get from the average open-source search tool", not "hosted ElasticSearch". How does CloudBoost stack up? What special sauce makes this an open-source Algolia and not an ElasticSearch wrapper?
I used Parse and Firebase for a mobile app project a few years ago and I always felt the combination was necessary. Firebase is great for real time data like chat streams while Parse did all of the unexciting user account stuff.
Not sure if it is the HN "hug of death", but I found the Cloudboost.io site quite slow to load up here. For a service touting scalability and fast performance, a slow marketing site doesn't lend to the credibility. Lets hope it is a temporary thing that will be resolved. I am excited by the project.