Review my startup, mist.io - mobile friendly cloud management/monitoring

[toddmorey]

My opinion: you've asked for feedback on this a bit too early. It's really hard to review your startup before the product, pricing, or even a demo is available. I do think CloudKick and more recently Cloudability have proved there's some merit to this idea. How is Mist.io different? How is it better?

[unweb]

CloudKick is no longer available to new users. Mist.io is mobile friendly, supports private clouds & the monitoring agent will be released as free/open source software.

[twalling]

Agree. All you can really ask for is feedback on the landing page not your startup. For all I know you're in the first stages of determining whether there's enough interest in this to pursue it.

[josegonzalez]

No demo, no screenshots, and no real list of features/things your app does. Why, as an ops guy with a trillion other services with these items available, would I sign up for this?

Feel free to add at least screenshots, as that definitely would help pique my interest.

[unweb]

The initial feature set is that you'll be able to create/destroy/tag/reboot and send arbitrary ssh commands to your VMs from your phone, tablet or laptop at no cost. Monitoring and sms/email alerting will be available for a small fee.

We're still working on the user interface so we're not quite ready to publish screenshots yet. Check back soon!

[CharlesPal]

I'd like to see more on the main page about pricing. You mentioned "Both the core service and the monitoring agent will be Free Software" but is there a charge for the service?

On a side note... This is a great idea, I am the founder of http://ratemystartup.com - If you would like to submit your startup there I should be able to get you up on the site quickly.

[unweb]

Thank you. We will definitely submit it.

There will be a small monthly charge per VM after enabling monitoring & alerting. We're still working on the pricing policy.

[mshafrir]

FYI, I run Chrome with the Better Pop Up Blocker extension, and when I first loaded your site I got nothing but a gray screen. I see "Uncaught TypeError: Property 'scrollTo' of object [object Window] is not a function" in the developer console.

[cpsaltis]

We'll look into it, but it appears to be related to Better Pop Up Blocker http://code.google.com/p/betterpopupblocker/issues/detail?id...

[latch]

Beautiful website. Good job explaining what it is.

I'd put a screenshot (or an approximate mockup) of the app inside the tablet, rather than the mist.io logo. Seems like a wasted opportunity of "a picture's worth a thousand words."

[akh]

Looks pretty cool, are you using some cloud management platform's APIs underneath (like scalr, rightscale, enstratus etc)? Does it only support VMs? or can I attach my EBS volumes when I launch a new VM as well?

[unweb]

We're using libcloud as a unified interface to the EC2/RackSpace/OpenStack API's. We'll only support VMs at the beginning.

[dmix]

Don't really do much sys admin stuff anymore.

Re the copywriting: "Mobile friendly web app" sounds awkward.

Just say "straight from your mobile phone" or something similar.

[alttab]

Not sure how you are going to charge for monitoring when any competent devops manager will know how to use Nagios.

[JustinJ70s]

There are plenty of paid online services for monitoring - take Pingdom for example.

[there]

Not much to review. Where is the demo or at least some screenshots?

[unweb]

We're working on it. Meanwhile we would like some feedback on the business perspective.

[t33]

really interesting!