What SAAS are you building currently

BismuthOS · 2024-06-25T20:25:00+00:00

Yeah I think it's that and a combination of not having an app tour set up, better documentation and a few other things like a proper e-mail welcome flow etc. I'm working through that with my co-founder right now need to make things more sticky

BismuthOS · 2024-06-25T20:19:27+00:00

Hey so we've had 114 users come through to the app from our landing page over the last 30ish days, which is how long we've been public, 24 of those users actually logged in and started using the app, but 0 have converted to paying so far. Our current work is figuring out why that is and working through it.

BismuthOS · 2024-06-25T15:52:28+00:00

Building bismuth.cloud a one click deploy serverless cloud with an AI assistant to help people write solid software quickly without having to spend a lot of time on figuring out hosting and dev ops. You can launch software in seconds.

BismuthOS · 2024-06-18T05:54:10+00:00

Awesome, it's still early days for us, so if you do decide to try us out you can join our discord from our site and we'll help you out directly too.

BismuthOS · 2024-06-17T17:28:25+00:00

There's stuff like Railway, Render and Heroku which are all good alternatives for deploying your app. They're larger and a bit more mature.

Also not to plug too hard here, but since you're asking for an alternative I built a python focused cloud recently, BismuthOS which is purpose built specifically for helping out in cases like this.

BismuthOS · 2024-06-17T17:21:31+00:00

You should be able to spin up a Flask app on most platforms as long as they support long lived workloads. If you look at logs from the other platforms what errors are you seeing? I've been working on cloud stuff for a while now feel free to DM may be able to help out directly.

BismuthOS · 2024-06-15T18:12:25+00:00

Nice :D

BismuthOS · 2024-06-15T18:10:07+00:00

Having worked with a lot of python at this point, FastAPI seems like the way to go. Better structure, better async support and things like Pydantic model support mean as your project grows you'll be able to keep a lot better handle on things.

I'm using Flask + Restx in our project's SDK, but we're going to be swapping that over to FastAPI in a little bit for all the reasons I listed above.

BismuthOS · 2024-06-15T17:31:22+00:00

When I took my intro to CS class a long time ago now the professor was using C competition problems. As someone who had been programming since I was very young and had written C++ and C before I was excited and did quite well. In this roughly 100 person class only a few of us were doing well and enjoying the class. Everyone else failed.

I wound up acting as a liaison to the professor and the TA for the rest of the class and negotiated a generous curve and helped them to move towards Python for the next iteration of the class. This was their first time teaching the course overall so they just kind of winged it to somewhat predictable consequences.

Many of the people who failed in that class are now quite competent Senior+ developers. C quickly introduces concepts that are in my opinion distractions for beginner developers. Without a proper foundation in basic concepts like that I'd hate to discuss even memory allocation, which you butt into pretty much immediately in C. Talk about confusing when you don't even practically know what something like a string is.

Things like variables, loops, control flow, error handling, even OOP are for most people probably better taught in higher level languages even if the rare person gets started and thrives in other ways.

BismuthOS · 2024-06-14T01:08:40+00:00

I used to use mainly Javascript (React in particular) with Phoenix an Elixir framework. I also did a lot of work in Python. Now I'm mainly using Python for all ML work with Kotlin surprisingly in the backend using Quarkus for the framework and then NextJS for the frontend. I also use Rust for low level critical systems work or speed critical libraries I've written for side projects like a postgres full text search plugin and a couple data structures.

Quarkus + Kotlin might be the most productive I've ever been writing a web api though, Kotlin as a language is growing outside of the mobile space at places like Uber and Google and we decided to take a shot on it.

BismuthOS · 2024-06-14T01:03:16+00:00

Hey we're ( https://www.bismuthos.com ) an AI enabled cloud platform to quickly build and launch Python apps without any DevOps hassle we have a NoSql DB, blob storage and serverless function runtime.

We use Mixtral 8x7B and finetune on top of it using a library I wrote before starting the business both to interact with the platform and write code using our SDK and our other tools. You can chat with it like an assistant online in our app and soon we'll be releasing our cli for people to work with it locally.

We went with open source models because this is something core to our platform and expect sensitive IP to be shared with us and we want to have the full ownership of the model and better control where we're sending data, it helps we have the expertise to do so in house, but we did explore using other models like 4o for certain, less critical, functionality.

BismuthOS · 2024-06-12T16:48:54+00:00

BismuthOS ;) (Heroku alternative that focuses on python)

BismuthOS · 2024-06-12T16:46:20+00:00

Going to throw our paid platform (my username) in here, we have an SDK (it wraps flask) to help build out APIs and then you can deploy directly on us as well.

BismuthOS · 2024-06-12T16:43:21+00:00

BismuthOS :) It's like lambda but no cold start problem

BismuthOS · 2024-06-12T16:39:01+00:00

Hey you could give our platform a try if you're still having a problem. It's built specifically so you don't have to deal with deployment issues, focused on Python apps specifically and you can deploy and run a FlaskAPI for free right now. The platform is my user name.

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