This looks like a really cool app, but I'd rather see it released as something you could install on your own server, like phpMyAdmin. It looks like it runs from their website and accesses yours via FTP, which I'm not really that comfortable with.
This is precisely how I feel. I would not be willing to FTP through someone else's site, no matter how convenient it was to use. On the other hand, I would be willing to pay a reasonable licensing fee (say, $20-30 a year, w/ updates, or $30-50 as a one time fee) and host it on my own servers.
As awesome as this is, I can't imagine the target audience (people who do web programming) be willing to put their credentials for their own sites into another site. I know I don't even trust my credentials for my web server on my own local machine.
We thought seriously about turning AppJet into this, before we decided EtherPad was a better business. We even built version 1 of a virtualized php-hosting backend. In the end, we just couldn't get our hearts into it because we liked programming in JavaScript so much better than PHP.
yeah, i was hoping to try it out today, but i think it must have gotten brought down recently. I'll finally be able to sneak in some work on my pet project while I'm at real work, lol
It was on the front page of digg as well - and when I clicked the link from there an hour or so before the story was on here it was having trouble loading all the images etc. so I am sure hitting hn was just the cherry on top of their server meltdown.
