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Comment by chrisweekly | Hacker News Reader

There's something about the tone and content of fly.io blog posts that makes it impossible for me not to root for them. (It also helps that the DX is so great.) I've only had a chance to deploy toy apps to Fly.io, nothing at scale, yet, but it checks all my boxes.

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“ My M.O. with these posts: write it like it was an HN comment, and then edit the sentences to be shorter. I'm glad people like it, though.”

From the button of the comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26747701

He is often on HN, look at the karma: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=tptacek

Kurt and Chris wrote this, not me. :)

wait, you have hired people to post with your HN account?

(YC-Founders take notes)

I think tptacek is referring to the article was written by Kurt and Chris, not the HN comments

it says "Thomas Ptacek" is author though?

only further confirms my assumption that tptacek has an army of clones

Fuck no. If you asked me whether I valued Fly.io more than my HN account, I'd have to think about it. I have, uh, an HN problem. We actually hoped not to see this post on the front page! We have a mode of writing for HN ("has to be interesting for people who will never use Fly.io") and there's a Fly Machines post in the works that fits that model. At any rate: I had very little to do with this post; if you liked it, you like Chris Nicoll, who writes for us professionally. And Kurt, of course, who wrote the original guts of this post, and also has been beating the Fly Machines drum inside of Fly.io for most of the last year.

fair enough!

although, as a fellow HN addict i wish i’ve had a private army of comment posters so i don’t have to

nice job on karma though, do you still remember at which point they start paying dividends? :D

A private army of HN commenters for me would be like a private army of people to take bath salts for a bath salts addict; it'd defeat the purpose. :)

But if you were part of the private army of HN commentators, well, you would say that now, wouldn't you ?

:-)

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fight the addiction by outsourcing it

now, that's my style

The DX is great until you think of using their rest api (not for machines) and the link Google gives you to their docs is a very very incomplete page with even the base url obselete and you're left browsing the forum to understand why your requests don't work ;)

What rest api is that? If it’s not the machines api it’s in graphql at api.fly.io/graphql.

The one at https://api.fly.io/api/v1/ ?

That’s an old api we need to sunset. How did you stumble on it?

By clicking on the first Google result for "fly.io rest api" ;)

Ah!!! Thanks for pointing that out, we'll take it down.

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