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Heroku clone for Django?

by room606 on 8/19/10, 6:45 AM with 61 comments

  • by endlessvoid94 on 8/19/10, 3:52 PM

    So, this is my site. Yep.

    I forgot to turn debug off. Yep. And i'm using sqlite3 to accept email addresses. Yep.

    I can assure you the quality of the ACTUAL project is far better :-)

    I have a working prototype and am working my ass off to get something scalable up and running asap. keep checking back for details!

  • by ruby_rocker on 8/19/10, 8:38 AM

    How seriously can you take a service if developers forgets to disable the DEBUG flag :)

    http://djangy.com/admin

  • by yurylifshits on 8/19/10, 8:02 AM

    Never write form confirmations ("Thanks for your email") in red color. Looks like a warning. If a form is processed correctly, it should be black or green.

    I hope that usability of djangy service will be better. Can't wait to try it :)

    Btw, isn't Heroku itself planning anything for Django?

  • by hasenj on 8/19/10, 8:36 AM

    Will it work for Flask? Any plans?

    http://flask.pocoo.org/

  • by klaut on 8/19/10, 8:02 AM

    Finally it arrived :) I love Heroku and was looking for something similar for Django for ages now. Can't wait to give it a try!

  • by nudge on 8/19/10, 8:11 AM

    Is it just Django, or will other Python frameworks work?

  • by astrofinch on 8/19/10, 9:19 AM

    How do they plan to compete against Google App Engine?

    http://www.allbuttonspressed.com/projects/djangoappengine

  • by ramidarigaz on 8/19/10, 2:53 PM

    I would love to hear more about this. I'm currently in the middle of a Django app, and this would be a godsend. I like doing sysadmin stuff, but there's no way I will have time in the next year.

    If you guys can pull this off, I will be a very happy customer.

  • by xulescu on 8/19/10, 8:48 AM

    Would be nice if there were something like this (like Heroku) for Java. I know that there are several "cloud" solutions for Java, but I haven't found something as simple to manage/extend/deploy like Heroku so far :(.

  • by njl on 8/19/10, 1:11 PM

    I've been working on my Heroku for Django (or Python more generally) for a month or two now. It's good to see somebody else thinks this is a good idea.

  • by js4all on 8/19/10, 5:08 PM

    I like the idea. But make sure to differ from what AppEngine offers or you have a very strong opponent.

  • by pdelgallego on 8/19/10, 10:46 AM

    I really would love to see this for clojure or smalltalk.

  • by johanhil on 8/19/10, 8:02 AM

    Sounds like a contestant in the AWS Startup Challenge.

  • by lzw on 8/19/10, 7:03 AM

    Intersting!

  • by twigil on 8/19/10, 7:36 AM

    can't wait for trying it!

  • by stwe on 8/19/10, 9:35 AM

    I wonder why Dave Paola (apparently admin at djangy according to DEBUG view at http://djangy.com/postreceive ) used room606 instead of his regular account endlessvoid94 for submitting this.