So if I understand correctly, DigitalOcean just built an inferior version of caprover? (for which a digital ocean one-click droplet exists BTW)
Caprover is essentially a really nice GUI for docker swarm, Let's encrypt and nginx.
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Caprover is essentially a really nice GUI for docker swarm, Let's encrypt and nginx.
Eg, if someone wants to clone something and it manages to succeed, they clearly got _something_ right. Either a captive audience, a better UX, a better pricing structure, etc. There's almost always room for ~innovation~ competition, so why poke fun at it?
I suppose if you think it's truly inferior in every way compared to Caprover your tone might make sense - but even then, i've never heard of Caprover, if i was a customer looking for this product (and i may be) i'd probably have defaulted to DigitalOcean for this. If that alone ends up being profitable for them - a Caprover clone with a well known name - why wouldn't they do it?
I see these types of "HN Dropbox" comments on HN so frequently and i just don't get it. There's lots of angles to product viability, and these comments seem to be purposefully ignorant. Not saying you are ignorant, just that the comments seem to try to ignore any logical reason for competition.
But there's also the problem of fragmentation in open source.
I've been using caprover from the early days, and I've seen how much work githubsaturn has put into making it really easy to use.
I think digital ocean has left a lot to be desired on their new offering, which could have been avoided, if they considered collaborating.
And ofcourse I never said digital ocean is just rsync. Just like caprover isn't just docker swarm. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.
But their new offering is definitely inferior in terms of functionality.