Personally disagree. I love the animation. It has “vivid life” in contrast to the entire rest of the pages being more static. Thus indicating that with Galaxy, your app comes to life. Love it.
Any details on the tech used on the new page? It’s obviously Meteor. Does it use Bootstrap 4? Wonderful job everyone!
Just an FYI - Google Site analyzer gives it a 4 out of 100 for mobile. Yikes. And Pingdom is a C. Is this just the case for most Meteor-based landing pages due to having to process the Meteor bundle? I’ve never used Meteor for any landing pages so I don’t know.
i love the new 10 dollar a month galaxy subscription plan. thats perfect Its like for 10 bucks a month you can host small apps and build up a level of expertise using Galaxy that will make using it in a professional setting that much more efficient.
The homepage should really be a showcase of it’s own of what’s possible with Meteor.
Could be good promo content to write up how you got the homepage from 4 to 90+ score
You can Install it, sure, but don’t ask if it works
We really need a getting started on Windows guide, that you can link from here and the install page. Windows development is a real pain out of the box, and requires system tweaking to get right
But, it’s very common on these forums to find folks with:
permissions issues (from running as admin after choco install),
performance issues (anti-virus being over-active),
npm build issues (lacking required build tools),
or other issues (Meteor apps have to be on C drive, etc.)
So some guide to avoid the pitfalls would be really nice
A question about the new Galaxy pricing - I don’t see per hour pricing any more. I hope that doesn’t mean that plans for auto-scaling have been scrapped? And if not, how will the billing for that work?
Hi @hemalr87 the billing system is still using the container hours to calculate the bill, the same as before. We have changed only the pricing table in the website to be more clear about how much you are going to pay running your app for 30 days but you still can run your app for just a few hours. If you divide the monthly value by 30 (days) and 24 (hours) you will get the same value by hour as before. Also in the Galaxy dashboard you still can see the value by hour.
See in the bottom of the price table: Price estimate for a container running 30 days (billed by hour)
One very small difference is that every active new account is going to pay at least $9 dollars / month but this is already the case for almost everybody, it’s very rare to have an invoice that is less than $9 dollars right now.
Our roadmaps are always up-to-date and we are committed to it, auto-scaling is between our top priorities and for sure it’s going to be released The billing will work in the same way, charging containers running hours.
The new site is really pretty! I am missing the big selling points of meteor though, the “Why meteor” section is very generic, it doesn’t really tell me the big advantages of Meteor in a clear way. If I knew nothing about it, I would get the impression it is just another bundler.
I use Meteor with WSL on Windows and find that the easiest and less error prone way. Only difference is that I had to install MongoDB seperately. Maybe this option can be included in the guide?
Overall really like the new design as well as the illustrations. Feels clean, modern, and concise. Two things that stand out somewhat unfavorably, though:
1.) The hero sections for the Homepage and Company are really sort of lackluster. Hosting’s hero, for example, is full-screen and animated (which I personally agree is a nice addition). The Developers hero is ok, but I’m not sure what the moving shapes in the background is supposed to communicate to me. If I had my druthers I’d say Home/Company hero sections need some design love.
2.) Second is the “Built with Meteor” section. The cards themselves are pretty but overly spacious in a way that makes me think something’s missing. Personally, what I feel is missing is a little blurb on why those companies chose Meteor. Apps can be built on lots of platforms, of course, so knowing why they specifically developed atop Meteor would be great. (I know why I develop with Meteor, but I’m of course thinking of users who hear about Meteor and wonder why those companies chose to use it.)
Okay I’ve whipped up a very rough draft of a guide, and left it open for anyone to edit:
If anyone can help fleshing it out, add content, editing, suggestions, common issues, etc. please do!
It’s currently more of an outline than anything suitable for the guide
Especially need content for WSL, since I’ve never got it working well either
We have a beautiful MacOS app built with Meteor that’s getting daily sales in Apple’s Mac App Store. It’s often listed on the first page of its primary and secondary categories while browsing the store. If we wanted to, how do we get it included on the Built With Meteor section? (And also, are the links dofollow or nofollow)?
Its like for 10 bucks a month you can host small apps and build up a level of expertise using Galaxy that will make using it in a professional setting that much more efficient.
