We'll be continuing to work on the cfn bundle and release new screencasts on more complex workflows over the next few weeks. So, let us know if there's anything particularly frustrating about your current CloudFormation workflow.
Oh gotcha. Yeah that's mainly for testing, but would be slow to use in practice since it's not behind a CDN. We'll probably start throttling that one, only for use on the homepage, but feel free to signup and use your own account for free.
The image on the homepage isn't behind a CDN, but when you signup we give you a custom subdomain which is behind a CDN. Although the initial loading and resizing still takes a quick second, before we cache it.
Not exactly. The Heroku addon just means you can easily signup and manage Firesize from the Heroku dashboard. Although the code is AGPL'd so you could totally run your own hosted version of Firesize: https://github.com/asm-products/firesize
Oh nope, but that would be pretty sweet. I'll throw that in the queue of things to build next.
We just grab whatever image you include in the url, so as long as the images in your S3 bucket are public, Firesize should be able to resize them just like normal.
Yep that's exactly why we built it. To be honest it's not overly complex to build yourself, but taking the time to get it right, setting up the CDN, and maintaining background workers can be pretty expensive when you factor in developer hours.
This was built by our awesome community on Assembly. If you have any feedback or want to get involved and help us continue to build this, check out the project on Assembly: https://assembly.com/firesize
Thanks. I'm not sure if this is the best approach since I'm kinda rusty at front-end dev, but @Shea created some super slick, high-fidelity mockups for us. And then I just broke them down into a bootstrap theme and a few custom CSS components. The best approach for quick bootstrap theming seems to be just grabbing all the variables and overwriting the ones you want to change. Here's our monolithic variables file: https://github.com/asm-products/signupsumo-web/blob/master/a...
The pricing issue is one I've thought about a lot. We'll have to see how the first few months go. At the end of the day we'll probably be able to change either our free plan or upgraded plan limits to cover that $99. I'll write a blog post about this once I have more info though.