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by flukus 3612 days ago
This is about as severless as "the cloud". There are still server just other peoples.

That doesn't make it useless, just misleading.

Edit - I guess I should be clear, this was a short rant about the term "serverless", not the product itself, which looks quite nice for static sites.

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Fair point. My goal was to make something so that static sites that need a simple email or contact form don't need to setup anything serverside.
Calling it serverless when there is in fact a server feels weazily though. That taints your product.
> That doesn't make it useless, just misleading.

I don't necessarily agree. The most popular usage of "serverless" is as a label for things like AWS Lambda.

Again, in that situation, there is a server, but it requires zero configuration by the user. This product has the same pros/cons.