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Looks awesome, but I'm skeptical there's a significant market for "easier than Heroku". The reason being that if you have a bottleneck setting up things on Heroku, then you're likely pushing way too many apps to afford to pay a monthly fee for each one.

I think the target market will be looking for something open source combining AWS provisioning and pre-baked Chef recipe collection.

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I assume that they will eventually support Python, but at the outset, I think Bushido has more implications for average consumers than developers. I don't know who of the two is going to be the early adopter, but this is what makes it so interesting to me compared to Heroku.

I already have some Django projects in mind that might replace other services that were much easier to install before - but still a hassle. This way, people will get both a better product and a better installation experience.

I could see the value in a "want to host this open source thingy somewhere? click >this< button", especially for people who are not primarily techies.

I would personally love this. Even though I am by most measures a techie (I get paid to write software), I find deployment / configuration to be very different from development and generally a whole bucket of hurt that I don't want to get involved in. Have some projects that I simply never wrote because I knew they'd need server setup that I didn't want to do. Now if only there were support for something besides rails...

That's an awesome vision :)

Yeah, that could be a real sweet spot if marketed properly. I hadn't really thought about that.

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