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This is actually really great. The ability to proxy api calls is huge, and I think the only thing missing here is automatic seo. If you guys could automatically spit out static HTML files for googles crawlers, I would use this in a heartbeat. Do you have a free tier like heroku? How are you pricing this?

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We do have an SEO snapshot capability via a grunt task. Take a look at http://www.aerobatic.io/#!/docs/seo. Note that it relies on the hashbang convention at the moment, but HTML5 pushState support is coming soon. Here's the static snapshot of our homepage that google "sees": http://www.aerobatic.io/?_escaped_fragment_=index.

What about dynamic routes, like user profiles? Also, the ease of just letting you guys automatically take care of it would be ideal (especially if I was paying for the service.)

Not exactly sure what you mean by dynamic user profiles routes. With Angular or Ember routing and HTML5 pushState the app developer can create whatever routes they like. Please feel free to follow up with us orville@aerobatic.io

I find the service great. Though I wondered why I see the hashbang in my adress bar. Is it better for SEO? It's usually used as fallback solution for HTML5 history (pushstate, etc).

HTML5 pushState history is now supported. See http://www.aerobatic.io/docs/seo (no more unsightly #!).

It would be great if third-party provider like SEO4Ajax could be integrated in your service through a plugin/add-on mechanism (cf. like Heroku or Appfog).

Try using SnapSearch (https://snapsearch.io) It already supports all forms of URLs hashbangs and pushstate along with many others.

Looks like this link is broken http://www.aerobatic.io/#!/backend-integration on the docs page.

Thanks for the heads up! The correct URL is http://www.aerobatic.io/#!/docs/backend-integration. Will get that corrected.

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