No. It’s just another alternative. I’m not a web developer in my day job. So I’m not aware of all options out there.

Render does look awesome. More mature and all. It’s not as easy as shuttle though.

- shuttle comes with a cli that allows you to run your app in similar fashion as the cloud version

- with shuttle you don’t need to configure the storage (eg db) and such yourself

That said. The price you pay is tighter coupling to the system. On top of that Render looks a lot more mature.

For now I’ll stick with shuttle for those projects. But I do thank you for telling me about render. Might switch to it, away from shuttle, if I my project’s needs ever outgrow shuttle’s capabilities