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Sure, I guess there are a ton of dumb people. But please name a few sites that aren't slop ecom fly by nights... I cant think of any serious business that runs on raleway.

I dont understand using any PaaS that essentially functions by arbitraging aws to people that are scared of an aws dashboard at a 3x markup.

Seems like a decent platform for toy projects not for enterprise.

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Maybe I'm finally old, but I don't see how it's surprising that Raleway is at all successful. Heroku built the same business ~15 years ago and had plenty of "enterprise" clients. I don't really understand if there's that much more value in Raleway vs Vercel, and Vercel claims to have OpenAI and Meta as clients.

Never underestimate the power of good UX and tooling. I’m not really familiar with Railway, but Heroku (and Vercel) made their business around ease of use and good DX and tools. It’s sadly not a great long term business strategy because there a price point where it’s cheaper to pay someone to deal with AWS or Azure for you.

They claim 31% of the Fortune 500 are customers: https://railway.com/customers

Yes, they should be charging 6x if they want to hunt the big fish.

> But please name a few sites that aren't slop ecom fly by nights.

https://railway.com/customers

tripadvisor and bilt, maybe?

It's pretty common to have "toy" infrastructure in a non-tech business

Not sure where you see TripAdvisor on there? And what even is bilt?

TripAdvisor is there in the scrolling names. Intuit and Congnizant too.

Of course "uses" doesn't mean they run critical services.

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