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Re:DeployButton is the simplest and fastest way to get code ... by yakshaving on Sunday October 14, 2012 @10:54PM (#4653519)
(I am one of the site's creators)

Thanks for the overwhelming response - making the front page of HackerNews unexpectedly. DeployButton was our entry to RailsRumble this year, and it's a solution we created because we wanted something like this for ourselves for our own startup, Lizi.

Over the next few weeks, we'll be updating a few key issues that have been raised in these comments, including the ones about security.

We don't immediately accept that enterprises will jump to use DeployButton, but for a series of smaller consultancies, the security features we will offer will be more than enough.

Thanks again for the support - Sometimes I wish there was a "Whoops, we're not ready for HackerNews yet, don't taze me bro" break-the-glass button that puts us back on after a month's time.

Re:DeployButton is the simplest and fastest way to get code ... by dstorrs on Sunday October 14, 2012 @11:09PM (#4653560)
Hey yakshaving,

I like the idea and you've got an interesting internal page, but your front page ("What if deploying your code...") is literally unusable on an iPhone and probably on other mobile platforms -- the button is not visible, nothing is clickable, and it can't be scrolled or resized. You might want to rethink that so as to capture the people who are browsing HN / TechCrunch / whatever while surfing on the bus on the go.

Re:DeployButton is the simplest and fastest way to get code ... by yakshaving on Sunday October 14, 2012 @11:54PM (#4653686)
Thanks a lot - I DID notice that -- For the first time after a friend pointed out that we were on HackerNews and I was in line waiting to eat a delicious veggie burrito. We opened the link in horror to notice that our catch splash page was unusable on mobile.

Sorry about this, a fix for this is coming too! From what I understand, we're not allowed to check in or "deploy" until the competition (judging) is complete, but its now on our list.

Thanks so much for your support!

Re:DeployButton is the simplest and fastest way to get code ... by regularfry on Monday October 15, 2012 @03:35AM (#4654109)
It's not just mobile - I can't do anything with it on my netbook, either.
Re:DeployButton is the simplest and fastest way to get code ... by yakshaving on Monday October 15, 2012 @03:22PM (#4656708)
Hmm - really, that's odd. What browser/OS and netbook are you using? Any chance you can send me a screenshot?

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Re:DeployButton is the simplest and fastest way to get code ... by regularfry on Monday October 15, 2012 @03:49PM (#4656839)
It's Firefox on Ubuntu 12.04 on an Asus Eee 1005P. I think it's just a vertical resolution problem - comparing on another screen it looked like the big red button was just cut off, and without the scroll bar working there was nothing I could do on the front page.

Checking again, I see that there's a four or five pixel strip of red bottom center that is actually clickable, but it's not exactly obvious. Screenshot here: http://imgur.com/JWcaP

Re:DeployButton is the simplest and fastest way to get code ... by toomuchtodo on Sunday October 14, 2012 @11:35PM (#4653641)
Same here on a Galaxy Nexus.
Re:DeployButton is the simplest and fastest way to get code ... by ericcholis on Monday October 15, 2012 @05:56AM (#4654371)
Outstanding site. I'm a paying user of DeployHQ at the moment. My biggest issue there is not having the ability to add new deployment servers via an API. Any thoughts on adding API access at some point?
Re:DeployButton is the simplest and fastest way to get code ... by jeaguilar on Monday October 15, 2012 @06:00AM (#4654378)
Re:DeployButton is the simplest and fastest way to get code ... by emperorcezar on Monday October 15, 2012 @11:48PM (#4658379)
I'm interested to know why the only optimal deploy for Django is SSH? Django works great on Heroku as well.