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8 points by yullius · 13 comments · 1 min read

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Hi HN, Light Cloud is a hosting platform where the unit of organisation is a folder. A folder holds everything project needs: frontend, API, database, env variables, preview per branch.

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throwaway7356

The site claims they have an editor "ICE" as open-source software. But that is a lie: it is not open source, but shareware or such.

They also accept contributions released only under the no-commercial-use-allowed license, so any dual licensing under a commercial-use-allowed license would be out of the window once a contribution gets merged.

Not sure what their business model is if they forbid commercial use. I guess selling commercial use licenses in violation of the no-commercial-use-allowed license?

jdsleppy

It took me minutes to find what it actually cost, which is $50/month for the cheapest, 256MB deployment.

Looks cool, but this info should be easier to get to. Tell us what resources we get in a "nano", "micro", etc. and how much they cost. That's the first and usually only thing I look at with these.

  • yulliusOP

    Thanks, this is very useful information. I'll improve pricing information ASAP also I'm working on driving container costs down. It will take some work but I'm sure I can drop the cost by ~50%+ when I'm done.

fodkodrasz

A pretty load-bearing theme, full stop.

  • yulliusOP

    Glad you liked it, I was a bit insecure about that :P Would you change anything?

    • hidelooktropic

      I think this is a tongue in cheek comment about it being vibe coded.

      • yulliusOP

        Well, some parts were but I'm also experienced software engineer. Did you tried it? Is there something that feels wrong/off?

    • fodkodrasz

      I was being sarcastic, using Claude-speak. I really don't like this color scheme, which is all around vibe coded sites nowadays. Honestly this is on the better side though, but still a bit low contrast, a bit too narrow font strokes, which strain my eyes, but better than standard Anthropic slop.

      I didn't try the product, I have a similar solution of mine in the drawer for the single framework I needed this, from the olden hand-coding days. This is a good feature, good luck for your product.

      ps: I'm also not very good in web frontend (also very conservative with regards to modern web practices), so I also defer to LLMs these days, I'm not judging on that, just commenting on the style.

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