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Went to the page, clicked one that looked interesting called "Wrangler" (I am not familiar with this). No reviews, ok, but not even a link to the owners page? No links to documentation or anything to help me find the original project? Searching for "wrangler" on google helps me find a lot of information about Jeeps. More context would be very helpful.

Searching for "heroku wrangler" would be wiser, and produces a number-one result suggesting that it's a report generation tool for your database: https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/wrangler

Is this official or otherwise endorsed by Heroku?

I'm an add-on provider for Heroku [1] and if it is they've never communicated it to us.

There's a "What's Orankl" button in the header that shows the following text when clicked:

Orankl is a YC funded company that develops tools for online stores. We focus on reviews systems, smart email marketing and product recommendation engines. We used our own product to add a review system to this site. In case you have a store and want to learn more about us (or in case you want to join our team =) go to orankl.com

1 - https://addons.heroku.com/expeditedssl

No. We just felt that there should be a place for the community to talk about heroku addons so we made this.

There's no way Heroku are going to let you clone their design and use their brand like this.

If they ask, we will change the design. We just made it like this to make it easier for people to find the add-ons.

Why not change the design before they ask, in order to not make a clear copyright violation?

If they dig up this thread, their lawyers can very easily demonstrate willful trademark violation, which lets them really nail you to the wall if they take you to court.

You know you're in violation of their trademark. Fix it.

You're in violation of their trademark at least. There is nothing, anywhere on that page that suggests that you are not Heroku or acting in concert with Heroku, and you're using their logo and branding heavily.

Have to agree. Thought it was Heroku's site when I pulled it up on my phone.

Awesome idea however not many reviews. If there were more I would definitely refer to this website. From my experience you can't rely on community contributions to grow your website until later on. So might be a good idea to get you and your friends to test out the features and write reviews yourself, just to get a starting point.

If anyone has used one of the elasticsearch add-ons, I'd love to read a review.

Feature request: Allow the reviewer to specify which tiers of service they've used. I want to use elastic on heroku for my side project, but if the $10 plans are as slow as the $10 db plan then I need to decide between dropping heroku and jumping to the $50 db.

We've used both Bonsai and Found in production with some fairly heavy read loads. They've both been a joy, with better support, stability and pricing than what I'd expect out of other database providers (Redis in particular used to be troublesome for us.)

Redis is surprisingly difficult to run well. I think most early providers just weren't very sophisticated. The Elasticsearch providers are mostly a new generation.

Depends on the provider - some are doing the same thing they did 2 years ago whereas others keep innovating constantly :)

I specifically wasn't thinking about you guys as "early" when I said that. :D

I only experienced it secondhand, so I don't feel right leaving a review, but one of the projects I inherited used Bonsai Elasticsearch when I first took it over.

We experienced a couple of overnight Bonsai downtimes that were unexpected and brought the site to a halt, so we moved off of them to a pure AWS implementation. Their support during those periods was top notch.

From what I hear, they're better now about downtime.

I have used Bonsai and Searchbox in production (thousand of queries per day and few hundred thousands of documents). I have experienced issues with both of them :

* The SSL certificate of Bonsai has expired one day and nobody noticed it before I tweet it to the support team, they fixed it in less than 20 minutes

* I had some random downtimes on Searchbox

Like mathgeek, I am planning to run my own cluster on AWS EC2 to gain control on my cluster.

If you want to test one of these providers anyway, I recommend Bonsai because :

* the support team is fast and efficient

* the health API (and some others) is available on the cluster (not on Searchbox)

Like the idea, it usually takes a lot of research to track down which add-on to use, it's not easy/a good use of time to try-before-you-buy.

Feature request: Would be easier if there was a star/popularity rating on the front page.

You should take a look at StackShare.io

(Disclosure: I'm an investor in StackShare)

This is awesome. I have been asking Heroku for this for several years now.

Some add-ons are not backed up by solid support/ops teams so this is extremely valuable to anyone considering relying on them for production use.

Good idea.

They should add github Oauth for the login.

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