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This sounds like one of those platforms that's neat in concept, but will fall apart fast for complex requirements.

Ya, after reading the page I would think the developers agree. They even wrote "Deta is building a cloud for the developers with less build bells and whistles". Sounds like a simpler version of Heroku? But why not use Heroku?

They also make it sound like the problem they're solving is that YAML is hard... but it's really not

We do more than Heroku in some cases. Our plans is to offer more convenient abstractions for _developers_, where they can just ship code and we do the rest (imagine netlify but for the backend).

YAML/K8S/AWS make sense for complex backends, not for our target use cases (small tools and utils).

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