Show HN: Appwrite Sites – the open-source vercel alternative

https://appwrite.io/blog/post/announcing-appwrite-sites

by eldad_fux • 1 year ago

44 11 1 year ago

eldad_fux3• 1 year ago

A new Appwrite product that lets you deploy and host your websites and web apps right inside Appwrite. No more juggling services. No more gluing things together. No more multiple subscriptions. Just build, deploy, and go live. All in one place, and it's 100% open source, the kind that lets you (really) self-host and (really) own your data.

Appwrite has always been about giving you the tools you need to build fast, secure, and modern apps. However, while Appwrite has always worked hard to deliver a great backend experience, one big piece was missing: web hosting.

Until now, you had to rely on external platforms like Vercel or Netlify to get your web app live. That meant extra configs, more integrations, and one more invoice to worry about. With Sites, that gap is gone.

The best part: Appwrite is a fully open-source platform to offer both frontend hosting and your entire backend. All under one roof. From static sites and SSR apps to databases, authentication, storage, messaging and serverless functions, you can now build, deploy, and scale your entire app stack using just Appwrite.

hiatus2• 1 year ago

Pretty scummy behavior for all of these people to comment without disclosing their affiliation with the company.

tommica• 1 year ago

Thanks for keeping an eye on them - I've been interested in appwrite, but this botting behaviour is really turning me off from them

cAtte_• 1 year ago

what's with all the bots in the comments?

hiatus2• 1 year ago

They all have some affiliation with the company.

redwood• 1 year ago

I for one have been tracking Appwrite since it launched and am not affiliated with the company. This is a tough segment to build a business in. It's crowded, and these kinds of opinionated abstractions are limiting once you want flexibility or scale. Still this is clearly a time in which people are looking for good open source options at this layer... Someone has to keep Supabase honest...

eldad_fux3• 1 year ago

Thanks for the kind words, this indeed is an exciting space to be in.

rubenvanwyk• 1 year ago

I thought Coolify was the Open Source Vercel?

eldad_fux3• 1 year ago

Coolify is also a great product. Appwrite specifically would compare better with Firebase or Supabase, Appwrite Sites, our new addition to the stack is directly positioned as a Vercel/Netlify alternative

navs• 1 year ago

This is the most overly positive and least critical HN submission I've ever seen

chrisweekly• 1 year ago

@dang and HN mods - please help cull the bot / employee / astroturf comments dominating the comments here. Thanks!

PS Appwrite devs - the comment spam footgun makes me sad, bc the stuff you're building actually looks worthwhile. IMHO Vercel jumped the shark not long after the "Zeit" name change, and alternative OSS infr / tooling like this deserves support.

Show HN: Appwrite Sites – the open-source vercel alternative

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