I started playing around with it and came to the conclusion that it needs a bit more development before it’s ready for me.
My use case: I’ve been meaning to build a simple backend for a chatbot that’s active in a community I frequent. The functions I want to add to the chatbot are just for fun, and my time on this is 100% voluntary. All I need is a backend to handle two types of requests, one which inserts a record into a persistent data store, and one which retrieves the count of records associated to the requesting user + the date of the first and the most recent records.
There’s nothing there that I don’t know how to code and deploy. But even the time it would cost me to compare prices of the various services which offer backend hosting is more than my little use case is worth. Then I still have to figure out the deployment path for my code, and stamp out the code itself.
The 1000 requests per month + 50k db records you get for free from this service would have been more than enough for what I’m doing. But unfortunately the functionality that I need isn’t quite there yet.
My use case: I’ve been meaning to build a simple backend for a chatbot that’s active in a community I frequent. The functions I want to add to the chatbot are just for fun, and my time on this is 100% voluntary. All I need is a backend to handle two types of requests, one which inserts a record into a persistent data store, and one which retrieves the count of records associated to the requesting user + the date of the first and the most recent records.
There’s nothing there that I don’t know how to code and deploy. But even the time it would cost me to compare prices of the various services which offer backend hosting is more than my little use case is worth. Then I still have to figure out the deployment path for my code, and stamp out the code itself.
The 1000 requests per month + 50k db records you get for free from this service would have been more than enough for what I’m doing. But unfortunately the functionality that I need isn’t quite there yet.