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lifeisloving • today at 12:39 AM • 3 replies • view on HN

Sure, I guess there are a ton of dumb people. But please name a few sites that aren't slop ecom fly by nights... I cant think of any serious business that runs on raleway.

I dont understand using any PaaS that essentially functions by arbitraging aws to people that are scared of an aws dashboard at a 3x markup.

Seems like a decent platform for toy projects not for enterprise.


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nemothekid • today at 3:03 AM

Maybe I'm finally old, but I don't see how it's surprising that Raleway is at all successful. Heroku built the same business ~15 years ago and had plenty of "enterprise" clients. I don't really understand if there's that much more value in Raleway vs Vercel, and Vercel claims to have OpenAI and Meta as clients.

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jeremyjh • today at 12:48 AM

Yes, they should be charging 6x if they want to hunt the big fish.

j16sdiz • today at 12:59 AM

> But please name a few sites that aren't slop ecom fly by nights.

https://railway.com/customers

tripadvisor and bilt, maybe?

It's pretty common to have "toy" infrastructure in a non-tech business

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