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Re:Ask HN: All-in-one backend solution for your apps. Feedback? by gregjor on Thursday November 15, 2018 @02:29PM (#18462419)
Node and especially MongoDB make it a non-starter for me. I work with about 20 small businesses and agencies, they want something simple to setup and deploy and move around, like WordPress (and even that is too complicated for a lot of them). Smaller companies usually don't have IT expertise in-house (unless they are funded startups, and then their expertise is a 20 year old with Linux on their laptop). They and their agencies outsource back-end work, but with their budgets and constraints they can't invest in or take risks with complicated setups and technology that appeals only to programmers.

I know no one wants to hear it, especially on Hacker News, but PHP + MySQL rule in the small business/agency space, and for good reason: easy to deploy, easy to find add-ons and libraries, easy to manage, well-understood, low risk, lots of people who understand the tools.

Re:Ask HN: All-in-one backend solution for your apps. Feedback? by asidiali on Thursday November 15, 2018 @03:35PM (#18463016)
Thanks for your feedback!

The plan is to implement additional stacks you can deploy with Modelier. Node/Mongo is our first one, but we're aiming to support PHP, Go, C#/.NET, Python/Django and more, along with support for SQL and other database solutions. Ideally, you'll be able to select which target stack you'd like to use for deployment based on your project needs. External API integrations are part of our future plans, and stack support will be a big piece of that.

Re:Ask HN: All-in-one backend solution for your apps. Feedback? by gregjor on Friday November 16, 2018 @03:37AM (#18467414)
You’ll have to explain how you can make it easier than spinning up a PHP + MySql or Wordpress instance on Digital Ocean for $10/mo. Or a ready to go Rails or node.js image. Maybe you’re targeting a different market.