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I think _today_ the primary benefits are having a single identity and source of payment, essentially to simplify cloud service management. (though the value there will grow as we add more services) In the longer term, I'd love to figure out ways to help our partners complement/sell each other. Being able to have datastores automatically connect to your logging/monitoring, or having a really great CLI experience to connect and deploy pieces and bits in complementary ways.

As far as services go, we're pretty mixed of opinion right now. I think we have a great story for Ruby developers and think it would be great if we could cater to Node next. James on our team would like Go or Rust, Matt on our team would like to go serverless or maybe even GraphQL-related services (but he's a bit of a futurist).

If you have suggestions/a wishlist, let us know!

I think it's going to be a balance of figuring out the right mix of services (i.e. do we target really specific developer communities and add the services that they are interested in) and building out our developer experience (e.g., a CLI tool, integrations with particular clouds, etc).

I think it's easy for us to say we'll do both, but since we're a small team I think it'll be a mix of selectively bringing in really well-loved services and figuring out what our customers want (if anything) from an integration perspective.

Hey everyone! We’ve been working on this for the past few months and would love your feedback. :) You can use Manifold to buy and manage services like LogDNA, Mailgun, JawsDB, Bonsai, Scout, RedisGreen, and Memcachier. We’re starting small and adding services slowly but eventually we’d like to add many more services and a more integrated developer experience (e.g. a CLI). We are in a very early stage, so we hope it can be of some use to you.

We’d love any questions, advice, or thoughts you have on the direction we’re taking. One thing we’re really passionate about is making the sum greater than the parts with our services, and we’d really be curious about whether adding specific types of services or building integrations feels more useful in accomplishing this. Thanks!