Don't you need to run everything in bare metal to effectively leverage microVMs? AFAIK, unlike containers, you can't efficiently run microVMs on cloud VM instances.
You need nested virtualization, which many VMs support -- it is architecture dependent. But, yes, to maximize the benefits you'll want to run on baremetal.
From the standpoint of a cloud user, the kind that likes Dokku, the experience is cheaper/faster/more secure if the infra uses uVMs vs containers.
I've been working on server provisioning and application deployment tool for a while now, it's my hobby project that I haven't shared much and it is still in the "polishing" state.
A couple of differences are that Fastgen is fully hosted, we offer visual workflow building, easy third-party integrations, and a built-in Datahub interface for data management.
Check out my other comment in response to a similar question for a bit more detail
I've been building https://serverfluent.com on a side. No PMF yet, but I'm planning to go harder on the marketing side soon since the market is already validated as there are a couple of well established competitors. Happy to chat about this nonetheless!
I have been tinkering about the idea of building open source disqus alternative for few months now. I guess I missed the train already:D Do you have any plans to monetise this?
That's a train with a busy time table. Every software engineer who ever wrote a comment on the web, got an idea how to make our better at some point. And it isn't a problem with a high barrier to entry.
The interesting, for me, part is the antispam. It is also silly hard, for obvious reasons. A big part of why Disqus is hard to replace is that they're doing a great job with it. Only once you clear that bar, you can think of successful monetisation.
Monetization can also be a problem if you don't provide enough tiers for users (same as any hosted web analytics alternative to google analytics).
I.e: my blog has like... 200 visits per month? I don't have comments right now - only link to twitter/reddit - but I expect I would have a dozen comments per month, tops. At this point I don't even care about anti-spam, but if a tool asks me $10 a month, I can't justify paying it. Make it $1 and I'm in.
I have yet to make my first dollar online from my saas side project. But one thing that I am trying out right now is SEO. It might take some time until you start seeing results. But if your saas is solving a problem for your target audience, you can try to create high quality content for that audience.
+1 on that. I recently had to write a small web app that has to do some data processing and interact with database on request. We chose go for this because it was faster than php for this one particular data intensive task. I liked working with go, but frameworks like rails, laravel or django have a huge advantage in terms of developer productivity when compared to go.
As a php and golang developer I would say if you are starting out and want to see results quickly - try ruby on rails. Ruby is dynamically typed interpreted language, you won't need to recompile every time you make a change and learning curve should be more approachable than rust or go.
http://saasinspire.com/ it's a list of saas inspiration. Right now there are only design listings of successful saas companies, however I plan to make this project as a great resource for developers and designers to create saas products. It will include various interesting articles, design ideas, tools, case studies, etc.
