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1. timcobb · 1791067382 · focus · HN ↗

   Cloudflare gets so much action on here, and the product they've put out the last 6-12 months has been pretty underwhelming in my opinion. Sometimes, as in this case, obnoxious even. A lot of it (most of it?) feels vibe-coded and derivative, just take whatever is big now or last month and throw "edge" on top. Anyone care for a moltworker?

   1. mindwok · 1791074111 · focus · HN ↗

      Hard disagree. They’re on a generational run atm. While the hyperscalers focused on big enterprise customers over the last 10 years, Cloudflare has built a product that lets a single developer run crazy projects for insanely cheap and with almost no maintenance. Now that basically everyone is writing and deploying software this is fast becoming the de facto deployment platform of vibe coders everywhere. Even ChatGPT sites runs on Workers.

      1. flippingheck · 1791100056 · focus · HN ↗

         Yeah, they seem well placed with their cheap-but-grear offerings.

         I'm a cheapskate so am sometimes motivated by this cheapness, but each time I realise it's easier to just stick with what I know (Linux daemons) than cloud offerings.

         Do you have any suggestions for something in the homelab/self-hosted space where CloudFlare has great offerings? (Other than the boring stuff like cache/DNS).

         1. mindwok · 1791112344 · focus · HN ↗

            It depends what you’re doing for sure. If you’re into homelab type stuff Cloudflare is probably not going to offer much. But if you want to run things on the public web, workers and D1 are insanely good offerings, with R2 (their object store) close behind. You can run a public site or app with a proper SQL database, logging, TLS, authentication, with great performance - and never have to touch a thing. No certs, no setting up containers or services, no logging, no patching, and uptime is basically 100% and it’ll either be free or $5 a month. It’s absurd.

            1. flippingheck · 1791119145 · focus · HN ↗

               D1 does look great. I usually don't bother setting up services with state, but maybe CF D1 is hands-free enough.
      2. risyachka · 1791111709 · focus · HN ↗

         cloudflare has their weird proprietary stack like workers etc and they build a ton of low effort products on it.

         a few years ago it was exciting to read their product launches - and to use them.

         Now it feels like a wave of slop. They do whatever next thing is trending on twitter. fs for agents? sure! new git? sure! agent os? Sure!

         like there is absolutely no filter. whatever pops in their mind they push it. and the results are mediocre at best.

         1. mindwok · 1791112510 · focus · HN ↗

            What makes them mediocre?

            I agree some of the latest stuff feels slop-py, but the core offering is extremely good.

            1. timcobb · 1791114664 · focus · HN ↗

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