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Lindsay Brunner

Architect.io - Deploy any app, anywhere

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Architect’s continuous delivery platform allows any dev to create preview, staging, and even prod environments. We're dependency-aware and powered by GitOps so every deployment is production-grade, including the APIs, databases, and events it needs to run.

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David Thor
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Hey there, Product Hunt! 🙌 I’m stoked to share Architect with you today! In a nutshell, Architect is a cloud platform that we built to allow any developer to deploy any app, anywhere. In my past lives as an engineering leader, I always wanted to give my teams the best tools to design and develop microservices and other complex cloud applications, but I was sick of having them waste time and lose interest in CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code (IaC). That’s why I, along with an awesome team, created Architect! No more infrastructure, and no more pipelines. Just your application and its architecture. 📢 Simple and declarative - Every time you deploy, Architect recurses through your dependencies and auto-deploys anything missing from the target environment so that your app always has what it needs to run. 🪄 No infrastructure, no pipelines - Developers use simple declarations, like which database type they need, to describe their application. When you deploy, Architect automatically generates the pipelines and infrastructure needed to make that happen. 🔐 Stronger security without the hassle - We can bolster cloud security by generating strict network policies with every deployment. Now your cloud environment can safely, and easily enforce zero-trust network security. We want to take Architect to the next level, it’s why we’re here. We need your support to make this launch a success! 💪So please show us some love ❤️ (we accept feedback too 😜) let’s keep this party going! 🎊
Dr. Viktor
@thorlax402 The idea is very interesting. But we need to try it out in practice. I hope it will be successful and will simplify a number of technical difficulties.
Frida
@thorlax402 I don't know much about the development side of things, but it looks like quite a bit of work went into making this! Good luck with it.
Costi Constantin
@thorlax402 Sounds good. Security is the most important thing when we are saving our data in cloud.
David Thor
Maker
Thanks @viktor_shpudeiko. We'd love to have you try it out! Architect is open-source for local via our CLI, and freemium for remote environment creation. So give it a shot and let us know if you have any issues!
Sibu Sahu
@thorlax402 Congratulations on the launch of Architect! Your platform sounds like a great solution for developers who want to deploy cloud applications without the hassle of managing infrastructure and pipelines. Good luck with the launch! 🚀
Yakov Mamontov
Could you clarify what is the difference between your project and other deployment tools (Terraform, Serverless Framework, etc.)?
David Thor
Maker
@capator Great choice of comparisons because we're a bit like the best of both! Our Component Framework gives developers a simple way to describe their own applications (how does it run, what databases does it need, and what other APIs does it depend on) in an infrastructure-agnostic way like Serverless, and our recursive delivery allows developers to create e2e environments like Terraform and other IaC. Our dependency management provides some added security benefits as well, but our focus is creating a great experience for developers to create cloud-native applications and test in their own cloud environments.
Umar | SaaS Guy
So many dependencies and auto-deployments happening in the background, how do you ensure that everything runs smoothly without any hiccups? Have you implemented any safeguards or monitoring systems to catch issues before they become problems?
Kali Aralar
@heyumarkhan agree with you
Luis Duro
@heyumarkhan Following
David Thor
Maker
@heyumarkhan Building distributed applications can be hard and there's no silver bullet to debugging issues across different applications and repos. But Architect helps a ton by exposing those issues early and often. Most teams really can't identify problems with microservices or API integration until they reach a real cloud environment (e.g. dev, staging, or sometimes prod) because that's where their monitoring tools are deployed. By giving developers the ability to create e2e environments on-demand, they're able to see and remediate any issues much earlier in the lifecycle. At the end of the day, we're a continuous delivery tool, not a monitoring tool. There are other great tools we work with (e.g. Datadog, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, etc) that do that job well already. That being said, we're fully transparent about what's happening under the hood with Architect. Developers have full access to the raw deployment logs so they can easily see what did (or did not, hopefully) go wrong with their deployments.
Brian Swartz
Congrats on launch team! PSA: we're proud customers - one of the first tools we committed to for our brand new product. Architect helps our small eng team stay 100% focused on our core features & value prop - which means that as CEO / PM, I basically never have to hear about anything to do with dev-ops, deployment, or whatever and we can just ship product faster. We're big fans and would highly recommend to anyone just starting out who wants to move fast.
David Thor
Maker
Thanks for sharing your experience with Architect, @brian_swartz! We love working with you and your team, and are happy to play a supporting role in keeping you focused on product instead of infra, pipelines, and DevOps!
Lindsay Brunner
Maker
Thanks @brian_swartz!!! We're thrilled to have customer partners like you!
Patrick Hubbard
If you're a developer with deep understanding of the tech, people, and processes of Ops, deployment may be just one more step in the dev chain. But for many humans that's not the case. If we're lucky we sometimes collaborate across teams to build and maintain effective CI/CD- and in a prefect world CD&D. But even then, dependency unknown unknowns can still push us into frantic troubleshooting or worse, weekend deployments. I love the idea of letting the platform solve the "It worked on my laptop" problem to let me focus on the creative work I enjoy.
David Thor
Maker
Same here, @patrick_hubbard. Every developer tool needs to remind themselves that they exist to serve developers so they can work more and more on differentiating product features. In our case, that means focusing more on their app and its architecture and less on infrastructure and pipelines. That's where their time is most valuable!
Maurício Maia
Congrats on the launch, it's an interesting project. architect.yml remembers me of render.yml but you're trying to make it provider agnostic, am I getting it right? Never mind, I signed up and noticed that it's deployed to an Architect.io cluster. Now I'm wondering about what "deploy anywhere" means.
David Thor
Maker
Great questions @mauricio. There's two major differences between us and render: 1) our use of `dependencies` to recursively deploy connected APIs (e.g. microservices), and 2) our ability to deploy to your own cloud/cluster. What you saw with your first deployment was your component running on our cloud. We make our cloud available to first-time users for testing, but we're a CD tool at heart and have no interest in competing with the big cloud providers. Check out our docs on connecting to your own cluster, or go to your account on Architect and click on the "Clusters" --> "Add a cluster" to have our webapp walk you through the process. -- Edit: forgot the docs link -- https://docs.architect.io/deploy...
Leo Wendler
Congrats on the launch @thorlax402 Really love your product
David Thor
Maker
Thanks @leo_wendler! I'll have to try out your product as well. Jamie looks pretty handy!
Lindsay Brunner
Maker
Thanks @leo_wendler!
Hashir Ahmed
Congratulations on launching such an innovative and exciting product! Your hard work and dedication have clearly paid off, and we can't wait to see how it transforms the industry.
David Thor
Maker
Thanks so much, @hashir_ahmed1. That means a lot!
Lindsay Brunner
Maker
Hadia Khawar
Congrats on the launch! Love your interface, it's top-notch! The product design looks great! But the best thing for me is the article pictures 📸. Best of luck @thorlax402
Lee Brandt
Maker
Thanks @hadia_khawar07 glad you like the interface!!
Brian Regan
Congrats on the launch, @thorlax402 and team! Excited to see where this goes.
Lindsay Brunner
Maker
Thanks @brian_regan!!
David Thor
Maker
Thanks @brian_regan! Congrats on your recent launch of Strake, too!
Brian Regan
@thorlax402 Thank you, I appreciate it! Good luck in the last few hours 😃
Lenny Leemann
Great tool to simplify the deployment process. Congrats on the launch!
Lindsay Brunner
Maker
George Novik
This is a gamechanger! Architect.io makes it easy to deploy apps and ensure production-grade performance. Love the GitOps integration and dependency-awareness. Highly recommend giving it a try!
David Thor
Maker
Thanks @jorexnovik! Good luck with your upcoming launch!
Dmitry Sytsevich
Awesome 🔥
Anil Matcha
Solving a major problem for developers, congrats on the launch
David Thor
Maker
Thanks @matcha_anil! Let me know if you end up using it for your next project!
Evan Lewis
Congratulations on the launch, the best of luck to you today!
Lindsay Brunner
Maker
Thanks @evan_lewis! Glad you could take a look!
Süleyman Barman
Congrats on launch. Looks promising. I am adding to my list to try asap.
Lindsay Brunner
Maker
Thanks @suleymanbarman! We're looking forward to your first deploy!
Karim Saif
Great Job⭐
Lindsay Brunner
Maker
Thanks @karimsaif!
Ivan Pelypenko
@thorlax402 congrats with the lanch
Naim Naj
I'm impressed with this tool. Congrats
Lindsay Brunner
Maker
Thanks @naim_naj!
Nick Wood
Congrats on the launch, @lindsay_arch and team!
Lindsay Brunner
Maker
Thanks @nickwood! Good to see you!