Show HN: DETA – From zero to running web app in under 300ms

abdelhai · on Feb 25, 2020

Hello HN, co-founder here.

DETA wants to help you get your small web ideas up and running quickly.

Things like webhooks, micro-backends, web-scripts, and crons will feel at home. We also have built-in user permissions – which we think you will love.

Currently, we support Python 3.7 but Node is coming soon.

Happy to receive feedback and answer any questions.

verdverm · on Feb 25, 2020

Looks to require (yet another) custom IDE. Is that the case?

abdelhai · on Feb 25, 2020

Currently yes but we’re not tied to it. It just makes it easy to get started (for us and the users).

verdverm · on Feb 25, 2020

Is it easier, really?

I'd have to learn another interface in addition to all the other things that need to be learned with a new library, framework, or platform

mxek · on Feb 26, 2020

Other co-founder here.

Our philosophy on this:

- For smaller apps, we think a lot of the difficulty in getting them working in the cloud is making many different tools play nice together. By bundling basic versions of everything and making them very compatible we think we can make this process smoother.

- For larger apps, we think it makes sense to have a lot of tools that are very customizable, because the time spent up front pays itself back over the course of the project.