Comments on: AppJet Makes Simple Web Apps A Breeze

By: Steve balmer jr

Steve balmer jr — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 09:48:19 +0000

Trivial software. First year high school project. My grandma could code this. Stop reinventing the wheel!

By: JeanHuguesRobert

JeanHuguesRobert — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 02:10:54 +0000

It just works.

In a couple of hours I developed a sample server side data store for my client side wiki experiment.

This is a very simple yet powerful idea — every developer can now be “in the Cloud” — dead simple.

http://virteal.appjet.com/wiki

By: Alex112

Alex112 — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 05:51:26 +0000

Seems like a nifty tool for prototyping and RAD. Provision for Facebook apps is quite useful as well.

And it can bind well with Feedity ( http://www.feedity.com ) to scrape web content, build custom RSS/XML web feeds, and then use the content in AppJet apps.

By: Steve Ballmer

Steve Ballmer — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 02:26:48 +0000

All are being rendered obsolete by MS even as we speak!

http://fakesteveballmer.blogspot.com

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 01:54:05 +0000

I think AppJet may have flown over sky’s head =)

This is great stuff… I look forward to writing all my future web apps with AppJet!

By: sky

sky — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 00:51:53 +0000

there are just too many rubbish applications out there. Try the apache.org site for serious open-source stuff rather than these toys.

By: sky

sky — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 00:50:16 +0000

this is just useless for any serious enterprise applications. It does not cover security, session handling and all that. Useless 1st year college project.

By: Anson Tsai

Anson Tsai — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 23:34:23 +0000

Hot stuff! Its so damned hard for a casual developer to develop a website, deploy it, register the domain, etc. This makes it so easy! Hell, I don’t even like doing it myself and end up having websites within websites…

Being able to view source and clone an app… good stuff.

By: Sonny Gill

Sonny Gill — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 21:23:15 +0000

Sweet.

By: Greg

Greg — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 18:55:37 +0000

@Robzor: how do you mean? Do you want UM to generate a CGI script you can host on your own site? Or did you have something else in mind? Feel free to drop me an email if you want to chat more.

By: Illustrious Bozo

Illustrious Bozo — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 18:48:40 +0000

“very simple Javascript programming language” - hehe

By: Carl

Carl — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 18:21:41 +0000

This looks like the perfect tool for teaching people to program. Could this be the last hurdle in getting my girlfriend to try coding?

By: Robzor

Robzor — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 18:13:12 +0000

@Greg: I checked out Utility Mill and it looks impressive… the thing it’s lacking is the ability to create a standalone web app. I don’t want to just create web services to plug into other sites. If you work on that I’m sure UM will be successful.

By: Urdna

Urdna — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 18:11:05 +0000

This is pretty cool, I just made an app- http://notes.appjet.com
I don’t have any real programing expirence but I made that in like three hours :).

By: Robzor

Robzor — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 18:09:03 +0000

@Barry Welch:

I haven’t used EC2 because I’ve heard it’s a total nightmare to get up and running. How long did it take you to set up EC2?

It’s interesting that all the server-side code on Appjet is Javascript; I do enough Javascript hacking in the browser that it might be good to use just one language instead of Ruby on the server / JS on the frontend.

By: wortwart

wortwart — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 17:54:33 +0000

I checked it out but soon quit when I couldn’t correct mistyped scripts with undefined functions - after the error the preview just ignored anything I typed into the editor. Then I saw the version number: 0.1. Alright …

@15: A lisp is mythological beast from ancient times, processing anything and consisting mainly of brackets.

By: Ange Rose

Ange Rose — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 17:32:43 +0000

what is Lisp? Where can I get it from? Does it process ajax?

By: Sachin Rekhi

Sachin Rekhi — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 17:18:08 +0000

I’m really excited about what these guys are doing, especially with improving the ease of development and hosting of facebook apps. Hope to see some great examples come out of it to help the rest of us get going on fb apps.

By: Mikebl

Mikebl — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 17:10:50 +0000

Simple and quite useless apps.

PS: Nick, are you YC staff writer?

By: Barry Welch

Barry Welch — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 17:09:40 +0000

@Robzor Agree.

I’ve done the FaceBook app with Rails/EC2 thing, which was somewhat painful. This looks nice. Given, say, an indexable, relational datastore, I would definitely use this for most of my social app development in the near term.

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 17:00:30 +0000

This is a smart business move…. the long tail of web apps is totally untapped because there is too much activation energy in setting up servers. AppJet even makes it free! I wonder for how long. Amazing technology here.

By: Greg

Greg — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 16:55:40 +0000

I’m actually building a similar application but hopefully much simpler and easier to use. Also it uses Python so you get all of the power of Python’s third party libraries such as image manipulation, PDF creation, etc.

Let me know what you think.

By: Aria Rajasa

Aria Rajasa — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 16:55:02 +0000

Well it’s a start. Will it go to what Zoho apps are currently doing? guess so

By: Robzor

Robzor — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 16:33:00 +0000

This is fantastic…last time I started a website it took me 3 times as long to set up the server as write the code. Probably will do my next one on Appjet. Hope it’s not too expensive, I pay $75 a month for a Rails Machine.

By: Mike Brown

Mike Brown — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 16:15:09 +0000

This is awesome! I waited for something like Appjet for a while