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by syndicatedjelly 980 days ago
Some misc feedback:

1) I thought I was the target audience for this app, based on the headline "Django Admin for Typescript". I'm working on a Django app right now and it seemed relevant, but after reading through the site I don't know how I would use this. Django provides a variety of middlewares to connect to different databases, so I'm not understanding what subZero's value proposition is from that perspective. Maybe I misunderstood the purpose of this software.

2) As a developer, I thought your summary in the https://docs.subzero.cloud/ Overview made a lot more sense than the copy in https://getsubzero.today/ . Maybe I'm not the audience for the page though, perhaps it's geared towards program managers or people with organizational buying power?

Also this is just, like, my opinion. So you're welcome to ignore any or all of it :) Best of luck!

1 comments

1) The similarity is with "django admin" specifically (not django). The way i saw this was: "if you have models setup with django, django-admin gives you a admin UI for the data without any setup", with subzero "if you have a database (with any schema), subzero gives you an UI for the data without any setup" and both of these systems can be customized with code. Another way to put it: you have your db, you point subzero to it, and you get the UI linked here, no configuration needed, and if desired, it can be customized to any degree

2) actually the overview of the docs is a bit old, it was written some months ago when there was no UI (just the backend stuff) so the positioning changed a bit. While the copy on the homepage was indeed intended for "managers/CTOs" it should have certainly made sense to a developer too so i have to fix that somehow.

Thank you very much for the feedback, really valuable.