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Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025) on Wednesday November 12, 2025 @04:25AM (#45898100)
We should chat! I'm the founder of roadie.io. I don't see an email on your profile but feel free to reach out at [email protected] or via linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidtuite/
Re:I spent two years trying to do what Backstage does for free on Thursday September 22, 2022 @02:32PM (#32942830)
Wow you're right. That's a bug. Thank you!
Re:I spent two years trying to do what Backstage does for free on Thursday September 22, 2022 @01:10PM (#32941771)
This is exactly why we created https://roadie.io I'm the founder.
Re:I spent two years trying to do what Backstage does for free on Thursday September 22, 2022 @01:07PM (#32941721)
Thanks for the feedback and fwiw I completely agree. We can do much better in this area. We're a team of engineers so we struggle with marketing and copy.

SSO is supported on all plans by default.

Re:I spent two years trying to do what Backstage does for free on Thursday September 22, 2022 @12:58PM (#32941612)
? There is transparent pricing from 50 up to 150 developers: roadie.io/pricing/ It's linked directly in the header.

For deals bigger than 150 devs, we have found customers prefer to talk to sales.

Re:I spent two years trying to do what Backstage does for free on Thursday September 22, 2022 @12:14PM (#32941007)
My company - roadie.io - offers SaaS Backstage. We're the second largest contributor after Spotify and we're co-hosting the first ever BackstageCon at KubeCon NA this year.

Get in touch if you ever want to discuss Backstage. Email in bio.

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2021) on Tuesday June 01, 2021 @05:18PM (#27361442)
Roadie (roadie.io) | Backend engineer | Full-time | Remote in EU timezones | https://careers.roadie.io/o/software-engineer-platform

Roadie is a VC-backed DevTools startup based in Europe. We are building a SaaS version of the popular open-source project backstage.io. Backstage is a service catalog and developer portal created by Spotify.

Our engineering team is small but strong. Mostly senior ex-Workday and Spotify. We have raised multiple-millions of dollars from US VCs and have customers despite being founded only 9 months ago.

Email me (Founder & CEO) if you have questions. [email protected]

Re:Notion Timeline View on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @03:43PM (#25062749)
You can hack the embed blocks to get basic analytics: https://apption.co/apps/2
Re:Ask HN: What projects are you working on now? on Saturday March 21, 2020 @05:51PM (#22650506)
I'm working on an open source chat bot for Helm. https://github.com/larderdev/kubewise

It posts a message in your team chat when someone installs, upgrades or uninstalls a Helm chart from your Kubernetes cluster.

It's the first code I've written in a long time and I'm really enjoying it.

Re:How to balance full-time work with creative projects on Tuesday November 27, 2018 @09:49PM (#18548884)
Who looks after your kids in the morning while you are awake and the kids are awake?

Seems you must have an amenable partner?

Re:Ask HN: 2018 Summer Reading List? on Friday July 13, 2018 @04:12AM (#17521279)
Hacking growth by Sean Ellis and Morgan Browne?

Just want to check I'm buying the right book!

Re:Things learned while running your own self-funded startup on Thursday September 28, 2017 @12:24PM (#15358390)
I think it's the idea that if you price your software too low then it's value will be perceived as low. You then have customers paying a low price for a low (perceived) value product and you're into a death spiral.
Re:GitHub: Scaling on Ruby, with a nomadic tech team on Thursday August 27, 2015 @07:30PM (#10132799)
How do you go from DB Admin to Director of Technology in 2 years!? That's pretty impressive.
Re:Who Hacked Ashley Madison? on Wednesday August 26, 2015 @06:27PM (#10126409)
Most of them yes. Lots of innocent people are caught up in this too. For example, many women joined the site to try and find out if their husbands were having an affair. Other people had third parties use their pictures and emails used to sign up.

http://www.troyhunt.com/2015/08/heres-what-ashley-madison-me...

Re:Test versions of IE from 6 through 11 and Microsoft Edge using virt... on Thursday August 20, 2015 @12:28PM (#10092887)
This is the first time I've seen the .ie TLD (ireland) used in a technical context. It's a cool idea given the Microsoft context.
Re:Ngrok – Expose any local server behind a NAT or firewall to the Int... on Tuesday August 18, 2015 @03:57AM (#10078015)
ngrok is really cool software but it's unfortunate that version 2 went closed source. I'll be sticking with version 1.x
Re:The story of .io on Friday July 31, 2015 @06:03AM (#9980874)
How do you buy them for cheaper than $100?

Ask HN: Offering conference attendance packages to employees

Posted by grinnick on Monday March 30, 2015 @08:09AM
from the ask-hn dept.

The company I work for is considering offering once per year conference attendance as a perk and we're trying to come up with some ballpark estimates for how much this might cost. We're not sure exactly how much of the event and associated costs we should cover though. I'm hoping some of you can point out some industry norms.Those of you who have attended a tech conference on your company, how...

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Re:How to get actionable leads from Twitter in real time on Wednesday February 18, 2015 @10:32AM (#9068985)
I've had success using Mention for this (https://en.mention.com/). No code necessary.
Re:12 Brilliant Growth Articles You Should Read on Thursday September 18, 2014 @10:19AM (#8335312)
Number 10 on that list is very very good. Not sure about the rest of them.
Re:Reddit is down on Thursday September 18, 2014 @09:13AM (#8334985)
Seems to be back up now (at least for me in Ireland).

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