Hi HackerNews<p>I'm a solo founder who's been hacking away on Codemason for awhile now. I built it to scratch my own itch after falling in love with Docker but also getting frustrated with how much effort getting things set up “right” required.<p>I’ve really tried to focus on simplifying the entire pipeline from development to production. I think I’ve done a reasonably solid job on that so far but would love some feedback or suggestions for how I could take it further.<p>Providing hands-on one-on-one support via a Slack I’ve setup has become one of my “things that don’t scale” that I’ve really enjoyed adopting and offering to people (even if they aren’t necessarily a Codemason user). If you’re interested in taking me up on that, let me know (here or via ben[at]codemason.io) and I’ll send you an invite.
I came here to say that I am a very happy customer of Codemason. Ben is incredible and helped me a <i>LOT</i> with his support through Slack.<p>I have finished building an MVP for my web app and was considering alternatives to host it. My biggest struggle was how to set up a proper CI/CD flow. Consider that I have pretty much zero knowledge about devops.<p>I asked for help on the Indie Hackers forum and Ben contacted me. It was like a God-sent gift. Now I am days away of launching my own, properly deployed, web app :)<p>Couldn't recommend this service more!
I like the site in general, but I am not familiar with your workflow.<p>1. I write some code
2. I git push
3. ???
4. Somehow my code has been containerized and is running in a cloud?<p>I think you're missing some logical steps on your homepage, and also a features page that drills down into exactly what you offer (I get the general gist but what are the exact features?) would be necessary.
Ben, this looks like a great tool - you're doing an awesome job, keep up the good work.<p>Question for you: The benefits of using this as a private-Heroku-on-public cloud are obvious, but in the nicest way possible, why would/should I consider Codemason hosting over a large AWS tier provider?
Congrats on launching your project. What did you use to build your landing page? I need to put something similar together for <a href="https://teamci.co" rel="nofollow">https://teamci.co</a>.
This looks promising.... but you really should explain the tech stack behind it so that people have confidence in your system ....<p>Also, an explainer and demo video would be very useful to understand the product.