Re:Amazon Honeycode Shutting Down
by bdcravens on Thursday August 24, 2023 @05:53PM
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Surely AWS could commit a developer to spend a week or two writing a basic wrapper, even if it's a MVP-ish set of node or python scripts that lets folks download their apps. Or for a more AWS-specific solution, export them to EC2 instances.
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Where do you arrive at a week or two as an estimate for taking a cloud platform and making it self-hostable, even as an MVP? I know nothing about Honeycode, but I would bet that it's piecing together a bunch of AWS services behind the scenes rather than being something you can just stick on an EC2 instance.
Wouldn't even need to be the same application, just something that lets the existing data form a functional application. Could even plug into Amplify, Step Functions, etc
Isn't what you're proposing an entirely new product? How could an engineer put that together in two weeks?
No, just a wrapper really. As you said, most of the heavy lifting is done by the AWS services. It needn't be high quality at all; just something that someone could download to not lose all of their work.
Of course I meant "two weeks" as something more or less metaphorical - could be 16 weeks, and a 2-pizza team, given the amount of time until Honeycode shuts down. I just think Amazon has the resources to do that.
If I was a competitor like Retool I'd be building a migration tool right now.