> favorite frameworks like Wordpress and Drupal<p><i>Cough</i><p>> instead of spending between 30 minutes to 12 hours on it like you are doing right now<p>I'd say, half an hour is awfully a lot for even for a manual provisioning with `apt-get install wordpress` or `tar xvzf wordpress*.tar`.
I'm sorry but if you're a cloud service and you have specifically targeted a static HTML page to Hacker News, <i>even to the point of where the title is "Hello Hacker News"</i>, you should do everything in your power, even if it means creating a special S3 bucket, to make sure it does not 404.<p>The regular homepage still seems to work (with missing assets)...but not to sound too cranky, but it was irritating to see the claim of "10+ FRAMEWORKS" and <i>not see the list anywhere on the site</i>. The closest I saw to a list of these "10+ FRAMEWORKS" is waiting for the banner <i>animation</i> to cycle through all the PHP frameworks it supports (<i>"Jumpstarter is an addictively fast and easy way to work with web frameworks like [wait for framework's name to fade in]"</i>)<p>I even clicked all the links I could find. "About" goes to the staff mugshots, "Help" goes to a support center, and the Blog link goes nowhere.<p>C'mon...
Jumpstarter is the kind of product that just leaves people in awe. I've shown it both to developer friends and to my girlfriend and the reaction has always been the same: "How can I get an invite?".<p>It's so nice that you're finally in Beta and that you get to show the world what you've been working on for so long. Congrats guys!
I was keen to understand how it works and what this "flow" thing is, as the technical premise is really quite interesting. So I click on the video... and start hearing the xylophone... and say "uh oh".<p>Folks, I have good feelings about good tools, but I don't get them from watching videos of people talking about how they get good feelings from their tools. The promotional video has obvious high production values but lacks any description of what "flow" is/does. It is the 2010s hipster equivalent of zombo.com.<p>Tell me what it is, what it compares to, how it's different/new/novel. Putting it politely, I place very low value in how it makes some random people "feel" or what sound effects it causes them to emit, and the fact that that comprises the sole content of the video makes the whole thing suspect.
As a dev, completely get the need. Yes, most of my day-to-day job is making a small change or reproducing a bug locally, testing, and then deploying. Setting up that loop has been harder than I want to admit and is the reason I know maven, ant, chef AND puppet, Jenkins, and gradle as well as I do. In many ways I wish I didn't have to!<p>That said, my friendly advice would be to pick one framework and environment combination and solve this problem end to end. Node would be a perfect start. Show me how to use your project to make node dev shorter and easier. If I believe you I will use you and node for new projects. I'm not going to switch an existing project to jumpstart because I've already set up the flow. Maybe I'm weird, but I demand single-command builds and deploys. All my projects already have it. But I'm willing to learn new techs to avoid the pain.<p>I see your landing page and take away you have lofty goals and are trying to be all things to all people. Don't. Pick one. Focus. Be the best at it. Make a YouTube video that shows me how you get 1-second whatever. It's especially puzzling when you don't have a demo video but you have a produced ad on "flow." It's hard to believe your product has substance during this launch.<p>I'm willing to switch to angular and node (or hipster.js and kitkat.io -- whatever, it doesn't really matter) to get what you advertise. For new projects. I won't touch existing stuff. It means I have to test and am likely to break something by moving to your project in prod. Nobody ever changes their build scripts!
Once my favourite framework is installed, will you abstract out most of the common configuration / maintenance / tuning steps as well? Or will I have to ssh in and do that by hand?
The status page link is online and will track any page outages. <a href="http://jumpstarter.statuspage.io" rel="nofollow">http://jumpstarter.statuspage.io</a>