| Wow. I'm a bit surprised this isn't on the front page already. This is such a cool service. I've had the pleasure of knowing Peter (and a decent amount of his team) through their work @ Heroku over the years, and have always been a huge fan of their work. I had dinner with Peter and team a couple of weeks ago, and was 100% psyched to learn that manifold was going to be launching soon. The problem they're trying to solve is that purchasing / managing subscription services for developers is tricky. If you've ever used a platform like Heroku, it's extremely convenient to manage additional developer services because you can easily provision / upgrade / downgrade / remove them using a consistent interface (billing included). But the problem here is that you're bound to Heroku specifically. I've often wanted to have a similar place to purchase all my services for apps (and companies) and have them bound to an independent identity: that way I can carry them with me wherever I might need them, and for whatever projects I might have. The other important part of this here (which is where I hope Manifold will be particularly useful) is helping me (a developer) figure out what services to use. The problem I have now is that when I work on applications, I'll need to provision Redis. So if I'm on Amazon I might use ElastiCache, or RedisGreen, or some other provider, but being able to sort through them, compare them, see reviews / rankings, etc., is all really important. Anyhow: I'm really excited! Congrats on the launch! |