I've worked with these guys before (on GoInstant). Killer team, now tackling an even bigger opportunity. Manifold is an easy way to manage all of the cloud services you use when building an app/business online. They handle provisioning, billing, etc. so you don't have to stumble through managing multiple cloud services/providers all over the place. They've got a good stack of services available through them already and more coming all the time.
Hey everyone!
We've been working on this for a while since we've been building our own apps and have gotten tired of all the extra management that comes from using external developer services. From managing user accounts to getting 5 different bills every month and wondering where all our Secrets are stored, it got overwhelming.
We built Manifold to get rid of that headache and to help developers focus on writing code rather than managing services. We are launching with an amazing first set of services today, each one has integrated their user management, service management (and access via SSO) as well as provisioning. You can do it all right from the Manifold dashboard.
We'd love to hear any feedback. Happy hunting!
@jevon Very cool - definitely a problem we struggle with regularly @Vidyard. Are you doing much around permissions management (yet)? With a big dev team, it's really difficult to manage who should have access to do what.
@devongall@jevon we previously built permission management for our command line app Torus https://torus.sh, and while it's not implemented just yet for Manifold we will be bringing orgs and fine-grained access controls for your services. Stay tuned :)
@jeffandersen@jevon Very cool - thanks! I think the excitement of having our finance team leave me alone is enough, but permissions management would really be a game changer (especially in light of compliance stuff around SOC, etc).
I've long wanted a Heroku Add-ons like experience to make using developer services in my apps easier. @etcpeter and the team are just the people to make it happen. Great work.
@glenngillen thanks Glenn :) we've still got a long ways to go, to reach the type of experience we think developers deserve, but hopefully we'll get there soon!
@mvrekic it's definitely on our roadmap! Our product today is targeted at individual developers but we're definitely thinking about how we can make this easier for teams to use, and we'll be iterating towards that once we nail the developer experience. :)
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