Time flies — and things don’t always go according to the master plan when you’re bootstrapping.
Needless to say: we are on our way thanks to lots of friends and colleagues who gave us their time and provided us with feedback and input thus far. Sometimes also just by listening to us complain.
Having said all this — here’s the technical update to what’s happening:
- We’ve run a couple experiments with individuals and interested parties to improve the “time to first deploy”. The feedback received is very appreciated, especially thanks to Volker Dusch , Nils Adermann and Mats (from TPWD AG).
- Countless small UX and performance improvements (or, in German: Verschlimmbesserungen) to our web UI.
- Countless small improvements to our CLI tool.
- Improved build stability and outcome for many different uses cases for all your favourite languages and frameworks. These are making it slowly but surely into our documentation.
- Implemented soft delete of applications and everything they are connected to. :-)
- Aggressively dog feeding what we’re building led us to subtle improvements on our Github integration as well. Making deploys from Github Actions as simple, as they can be. (Needless to say that while we focused on Github, the power of our CLI can be leveraged by workflows/pipelines on Gitlab, Jenkins, Tekton, … as well.)
- Continued work on the first (or second) “service” we’ll be supporting on RUNWAY — the database. Our managed PostgreSQL service will be part of our initial GA.
Initial version of the (S3 compatible) object storage integration in order to offer a persistence layer for apps running on RUNWAY simple and easy. This integration will also be the backbone for database backups and will find its way into GA as well.
- We started offering snap packages (for Ubuntu et all) and a nix-user-repository (thank you, David Asabina) to consume our CLI.
- We finally got around to the itty-gritty details of billing and invoicing to make this all worth while. ;-)
- Lots of monitoring improvements, and fighting the computer — as always!
Is it all tech?
As you can maybe tell (and relate to), the not so technical part is, that the not the technical aspects of running a start-up are hard.
We acknowledge all the hard work that product, marking, growth hackers and legal folks put into their products. We are working to address this at RUNWAY as well.
We started working with Andreas Gebhard (from Forward Momentum) to untangle where we are and where we are heading. Sharpening our vision and strategy.
Ally Long will join us in May to advance our RUNWAY brand and bring RUNWAY to the next level.
And that’s all from us for now! As always, thank you for reading!
We are curious to learn what everyone else is up to and what are your challenges. So please leave a comment and share.
— Dennis, Richard & Till
