Ruby on Rails Startup Heroku Gets $3 Million

http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/05/08/ruby-on-rails-startup-heroku-gets-3-million/

by sant0sk1 • 18 years ago

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utnick• 18 years ago

cool service.. will be interested to see what they have in store

it currently seems like the ideal type of service to go dhh style profitable with no funding

prakash• 18 years ago

fantastic, congratulation guys!!

Designing, running and monitoring high performance and highly scalable websites is still part art and part science. Abstracting that part away for developers is a very lucrative market to be in.

jdroid2• 18 years ago

I have been getting the impression rails is on it's way out. It'd be neat to see this abstracted to apply to django too.

nonrecursive• 18 years ago

What gives you hat impression?

alaskamiller2• 18 years ago

TechCrunch

jdroid2• 18 years ago

I don't have specific links. It's more of a vibe over the past few months of reading reddit and this site. Ruby, in general, seems to be getting put aside. BUT, what would i know?!

tlrobinson• 18 years ago

Rails, Django, CakePHP, Merb... they're all the same. Rails just "inspired" a new generation of web application frameworks.

It wouldn't surprise me if most of Heroku's technology translated to other stacks easily.

vlad2• 18 years ago

I don't think Django was inspired by Rails, but I could be wrong. CakePHP definitely was. In fact, I learned CakePHP by watching Ruby on Rails screencasts because I couldn't get RoR installed on a VPS way back when, while CakePHP installed effortlessly, yet didn't have many good tutorials.

axod• 18 years ago

It's funny how obsessed some people become with languages and frameworks, and how people using 'in vogue' ones are applauded, whilst those using perfectly capable but 'out of vogue' ones are looked down upon.

I agree though, I think the "This is the best thing since sliced bread" phase is over for rails.

fallentimes• 18 years ago

Wow - fantastic. Good work guys!

goodkarma2• 18 years ago

Heroku is awesome. PG says "make something people want", and Heroku definitely embodies that for me. Congrats to them!!

wenbert• 18 years ago

Now I want Heroku for PHP ^_^ Coincidence, I also posted something about heroku here http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=184317

aston2• 18 years ago

I was about to refer you to AppJet, but apparently they're switching back from PHP to Javascript.

goodkarma2• 18 years ago

I think someone just went through and docked everyone's karma, just for saying they like Heroku. Umm.. WTF?

justindz3• 18 years ago

I would love to see some of this cash go towards supporting simple db or couch as an alternative to Postgres for some app types.

I love Heroku. Some of their opensource bits are nice too. I'm enjoying building my app in the cloud.

sabat2• 18 years ago

I can't wait to hear DHH chide these guys about trying to be a startup instead of a small business.

[bracing for the karma hit]

sabat2• 18 years ago

Heroku guys: any chance you'd extend some invitations to your YC friends? :-D

justindz3• 18 years ago

I have an invite. Tweet me.

calpaterson• 18 years ago

It just could not get any more web2.0 than that comment ;)

edawerd• 18 years ago

I'd like an invite too =)

rapind• 18 years ago

Gratz guys. Been using them for a while. Forget the browser based editor, you can deploy to them with git. Scaling without thinking (they're backed by EC2 & S3) is great, and they launched before appengine.

dkd• 18 years ago

Why we still don't have that kind of site for Django? just a thought...

aston2• 18 years ago

Google App Engine.

zach• 18 years ago

Congrats Adam and Heroku! Now move back to Burbank. ;)

raju• 18 years ago

Great job and congrats. I have an invite from Heroku, and the little I have used of it has been an amazing experience.

Abstracting away deploying, scaling and monitoring from the developers and allowing them to think about the problem they are working with is truly a boon.

And clients dont have to worry about managing hardware or dealing with redundancy. Love it. Now only if I could find a client who's willing to work with me on Heroku.

Congrats again, guys! You really deserve it.

Ruby on Rails Startup Heroku Gets $3 Million

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