Show HN: Kite - Start building a web app in one click

Show HN: Kite - Start building a web app in one click(runkite.com)

28 points by Elesant 12 years ago | 17 comments

I've downloaded the client, added an app (Django, Rails, and Node). When I tried to view the page, it 404'd and then promptly walked me through SSHing in and starting the server process.

I'm impressed.

Later in the day I'll dive a little deeper, but between frictionless "add an app" process to the way it feels like a local development environment - I think you've got a winner here.

Now, when can I pay you for this service? :)

mchiang 12 years ago | |

Hey! Mike here from Kite.

We are currently giving away one free app per account. If you would like more, you can pay $10/month per extra app. (My Account -> Payment).

We're still early and are working out the pricing details.

thebiglebrewski 12 years ago |

Great work on this. Excited to use this for my students instead of forcing them to use a Chromebook (see http://blog.zfeldman.com/2013-10-05-setting-up-a-chromebook-...)! Do you have a Windoze client yet?

mchiang 12 years ago | |

AWESOME! We're currently working on the Windows client. No ETA for it yet. =(

Definitely shoot me an e-mail if you have any specific questions for education/teams: michael @ runkite.com

thebiglebrewski 12 years ago | | |

Amazin'. Thanks for putting that out. zachfeldman at gmail if you'd like to put me on a list for people who find out when the Windows client comes out!

cbhl 12 years ago |

I was pleasantly surprised to see "Ghost" in the list of frameworks.

Edit: I would have liked to be able to paste in my password with Command-V in the Mac client. (I use LastPass, and had to right-click to paste my password in.)

mchiang 12 years ago | |

Heh! We released support for Ghost blogs yesterday.

Sorry about that bug. We are aware of it. We'll most likely push out a fix with the next update. =)

desireco42 12 years ago |

Looks really good. I started skeptical, but I really like what you did there.

It would be helpful if there was some pricing page so I know what I am getting myself into.

jeffdm 12 years ago | |

Thanks for checking it out - there's a pricing page once you log in. Sorry that it's not very transparent right away - we'll get that fixed up.

We give away one hosted dev environment for free and charge 10$/month per app you want to build with it afterwards. The pricing amount is definitely not fixed - we just started our beta and wanted to hear thoughts from the HN community regarding the whole concept / experience.

desireco42 12 years ago | | |

Hi Jeff, it is really well hidden :). Other than that, I really don't have any other complaints, in fact, this is something I was considered doing, so that I can develop on same machine no matter what. I think you did it fairly elegant solution.

iancarroll 12 years ago |

Been using this for a week now and I can say it's amazing. The Ghost deploy function is a winner as well.

jeffdm 12 years ago | |

We really, really love Ghost. We even made this: https://runkite.com/ghost

We originally designed Kite for django/rails/node/static html. But then Ghost was released.

Devs can use Kite to host a Ghost blog but also edit its underlying code without having to worry about setting it up locally and then pushing it somewhere else. We're really hoping that this makes contributing to the Ghost codebase & designing themes way easier.

mchiang 12 years ago | |

Awesome! I'm glad to hear that you like us. We're definitely working on making your experience even more seamless. More features to come! =D

Shoot me an email at michael @ runkite.com if you ever have any questions / suggestions or anything.

gremlinsinc 12 years ago |

how long before the Windows version will be ready?

jeffdm 12 years ago | |

Hey - founder from Kite here.

We've included as much cross-platform code as possible in the client so we can start supporting Windows ASAP. I can't give an exact date but we're working hard on it.