This is a side project of mine that allows you to take your existing apps and make them work on multiple cloud apis without much code change.

There’s an enterprise version listed in features but no pricing or any other info on the website. Not even contact info. At least on mobile.

There is a contact us on the bottom of the features section by "get it". Or you can just email me at larry@cloudsidecar.com. The enterprise version has some really interesting features, such as bridging redshift and bigquery.

On desktop I can see this email address under the features: 'larry@cloudsidecar.com'

Yeah kind of. Whatever the implementation is, the idea is it is managed for customers rather than having to build their own Cassandra cluster and piping.

There is a data store option for /dev/null... so yes

Perfect dialog here. For anyone who doesn't "get this"... watch this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2F-DItXtZs

great, i always wanted a write only data store

Caboose is a Backend as a Service (BaaS) that my friend and I built as a passion project. The idea is to drastically simplify the steps needed to build or prototype almost any type of application without compromising functionality and power. We built an experience that makes development simple and accessible by allowing you to develop and define your backends using plain old English. You can also extend anything we provide with JavaScript, Java, PHP, or Python.

While there might be some rough edges, please take a look and tell us what you think. We know there are a bunch of BaaS providers out there, but we feel the functionality and simplicity of Caboose makes it a stand out.

Is this any better than scala.js?

No. To be more precise, it does a completely different job. As I said in another comment, it isn't actually a Scala compiler. Comparing it to Scala.js is nonsense to begin with.

Caboose is a Backend as a Service (BaaS) that my friend and I built as a passion project. The idea is that there are so many common steps to build or prototype an application so why not make it super simple. We have built backend functionality to power almost any web or mobile app you can think of. Our UI makes development simple by allowing you to develop and define your backends using plain old English. You can also extend anything we provide with JavaScript, Java, PHP, or Python.

Please take a look and tell us what you think. I know there are a bunch of BaaS providers out there, but I feel the functionality and simplicity of caboose makes it stand out.

Tried to sign up, progress bar is stuck at 99.3865% :(

Hmmm weird. I think your account was created anyway, can you try to log in?

Same deal, progress bar goes to almost 100% and just hangs

I'm very hypocritical.

Yea no kidding.

"AppNexus helps brands connect with consumers, empowering agencies and advertisers with a uniquely powerful approach to programmatic online advertising."

Thanks for working on Ad Tech, the very thing that powers this bubble by trading attention as a commodity. Other people work on silly startups, but this shit is akin to HFT.

Unless microtransactions for content take off, and they haven't, ad tech is necessary to incentivize content on the web. 90% of the websites you read could not exist without the ecosystem that appnexus is a big player in. Hacker News, being one big ad for ycombinator, doesn't need to bother.

So he's doing a real thing that provides real value to the web. And it's actually a sustainable business, to boot.

Lastly, there's absolutely no need to get so personal -- if his article offended you, discuss the article.

See, whether a startup is silly or not is an opinion. I happen to have an opinion that adtech is evil. Whether it has a side benefit like allowing "content" to exist is tangential.

I usually keep that opinion to myself because it's not a popular one, but in this particular subthread we are not discussing the article, we are discussing the author who volunteered his "I am very hypocritical" comment.

Elsewhere in this comment thread I discuss the article.

I don't get it - are you arguing that because you think your opinion is unpopular it's okay to be facetious?

No, I am stating the following (maybe unclearly):

1) In a thread where the author shows up and says "I am very hypocritical", standard rules like "discuss the article, not the author" do not apply. The author is fair game for discussion.

2) I don't usually crap on other peoples' industries, but not in this case, because (1).

"90% of the websites you read could not exist without the ecosystem that appnexus is a big player in."

That's ok. The internet would be better off without most junk websites, and the ones I like, I'm willing to pay for.

Funnily enough, a big side effect of the ad tech's evolution over the last 10 years is that junk websites tend to get junk ads with junk CPM and quality websites get the higher-value stuff.

You don't need to incentivize content on the web. People's interests and need for collaberation and sharing should incentivize content on the web.

We're in enough of a media bubble already - there's so much media and so few trusted sources that its impossible to filter content anymore. Ads inject themselves after people's ability to filter burn out like a virus. Its not good for society.

We like to call out politicians and such for who sponsors them. What's wrong with calling out our information sources in the same way? (serious question)

You know, this might be the year when microtransactions for content actually take off.

We would be ok without 90% of websites. Too much redundancy and junk content.

I could do without 90% of those websites, i suppose

Interestingly, this bubble is not powered by ads. Only one of the top 25 "unicorns" worldwide, Snapchat, is ad-based. The others provide a good or service paid for directly by their customers.

[1] http://fortune.com/unicorns/

Advertising is a necessary part of selling a product. Selling a product is a necessary part of being profitable. Why hate on that? Way better than waste-my-time Farmville or an enhanced "like" button. Adtech actually helps commerce.

Many products succeed with zero advertising.

Facebook stock value is doing well and it is because many products are using it to advertise

And they are by far the exception and not the rule.

Too many fall into the "Field of Dreams" fallacy thinking that if you build it, they will come. Most of the time it doesn't work like that.

To be fair... he's not working... he's on sabbatical :)

You're probably right. I was being a bit excessive with the beer comment, I just found it funny that I never recognized anything on tap. I'm also not really an IPA guy =/

No, it was a three day period in the middle of the week.

Well that's plenty of time to make sweeping generalizations. Carry on.

Sweeping and evidently spot on as well. Carry on!

What's the evidence that it's spot on?

How is this different from those old complex event processing frameworks?