Flynn Reviews & Product Details

I like Flynn because it makes my life easier as a developer. I don't have to worry about setting up servers, configuring networks, or managing dependencies. I push my code to Flynn, which takes care of everything for me. I can focus on building my app and quickly delivering value to my users. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Since I have been using it since last year only, I didn't have many complaints, but if I had to pick one thing, I would say that it could improve its documentation and support. Sometimes I find it hard to find the information I need or get help from the community. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

its functionality and its ease. helps to catch up in a new position. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

that there is still a long way to go. It's a bit for beginners. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Flynn is a great tool to deploy and manage your applications and databases. With Flynn, it's easy to manage the applications and scale up anytime as per the need. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Looks like Github community contributions have been stopped for Flynn. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Emerging platform as a service . We can integrate that with our own servers. Its availability in cloud. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Adding more features will make it more reliable. Could see more features are planned for future release. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Its similar to Heroku or any other repo management platform but a bit advanced.it saves a lot of time than conventional. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Pricing is a bit aggressive.

It requires exoertise.its is still not mature enough Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Immediate support around the clock from a team of dev-ops wizards. The team is immensely talented and will go out of their way to help beyond their responsibilities. We never have to worry about our infrastructure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Only downside for us is that we don't have enough seats in the Slack channel, but that's purely a function of cost/plan. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Essentially, Flynn is a self-hosted Heroku. It comes with the same sort of benefits as Heroku, including "git push" to deploy and a quick CLI tool to manage things such as domains and databases in your cluster. The promise of having a single command deploy your application and another to scale it is fantastic. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Though Flynn comes with the same benefits as Heroku, it comes with a lot of drawbacks as well. First, you have to administrate it yourself. This means hiring a dev-ops engineer to manage a cluster of servers and the Flynn platform itself, or sidetracking a developer every time there's an issue or an upgrade to perform. Heroku, though more expensive, is an outsourced version of this.

It's also under pretty heavy development. There's updates fairly frequently, which means you'll be doing a lot of upgrading your cluster. If you have more than 3 machines, you'll be spending a lot of time upgrading and monitoring. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Heroku has a number of limitations, especially around running your own non HTTP services. Flynn promises the ability to run your own PaaS wherever you want. Its a big project with lofty goals, but it builds on top of heroku buildpacks in order to make it somewhat familiar for users. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The pace of development is fairly slow. The official web site still doesn't make any strong claims about the production readiness of this platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The installation and deployment was a breeze, but still found the competitors to suit my needs better. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nothing really, just found other services to suit my needs better. Currently using Dokku, but moving onto Deis soon I believe. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Documentation for setting up was pretty simple and easy. Awesome documentation. Also provided a lot of important and helpful questions. Did make the documentation seem intimidating.

The clear and easy to use API is nice to have as well.

Love that one is able to use it for open source and that it's free. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Would like more clear idea on cost on the website. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.