Alright, let me tell you about my little adventure with this thing called “romo”. Heard some noise about it online, you know, the usual “next big thing” talk for deploying stuff easily. Sounded good on paper, so I thought, why not give it a spin?
I had this small personal project, nothing fancy, just a little backend API I tinker with sometimes. Perfect candidate, right? Low risk. So, I jumped onto their site and signed up. The dashboard looked kinda sleek at first glance, but maybe a bit… empty? Anyway, I pushed forward.
Getting Started (or Trying To)
First hurdle: getting my code onto their platform. Their docs… well, let’s just say they weren’t exactly holding my hand. Found the section for deploying a * app, which is what I had. Followed the steps, ran their command-line tool thingy. And bam! Error. Something cryptic, didn’t make much sense.
Okay, no big deal, happens all the time. Went digging online, forums, community chats, whatever I could find. Found a bunch of other folks hitting similar walls. Some had workarounds, others just gave up. Not a great sign. I tried a couple of the suggested fixes. Tinkered with config files, changed some settings here and there. Felt like I was guessing half the time.
The Struggle Continues
After wasting a good chunk of an afternoon, I finally got something running. Success? Not quite. It was flaky as hell. Sometimes it worked, sometimes it’d just hang or crash. Tried hitting the API endpoint a few times – super slow responses, like wading through treacle.
Then I thought, okay, maybe it’s just the initial setup. Let’s try adding a custom domain. That turned into another rabbit hole. More confusing settings, DNS stuff that didn’t seem to update properly on their end. I followed their guide to the letter, waited hours, still nothing. It just wouldn’t connect my domain.
At this point, I was getting seriously frustrated. This was supposed to be easier, remember? I looked for support. Found a contact form, sent a message detailing the issues. Days passed. Silence. Maybe free users get zero support, I don’t know, but it felt like shouting into the void.
Pulling the Plug
Here’s the thing that really got me. I was doing this to potentially save time later, maybe use it for a more serious project if it worked out. But I ended up burning hours, precious hours I could have spent on actual development, or, you know, sleeping. All for what? A barely functional deployment that couldn’t even handle a custom domain properly.
So, I pulled the plug. Deleted my account, wiped their tool from my machine. Went back to my old setup – just a simple script deploying to a cheap VPS. Took me maybe 15 minutes to get the same project up and running smoothly, custom domain and all. Rock solid.
My final take? Romo just isn’t ready. Maybe it works for some super specific use case, but for general purpose stuff, it was a nightmare. The documentation was weak, the platform felt unstable, and the whole experience was just a massive time sink. So yeah, for me, romo sucks. Stick with what works, folks. This ain’t it, at least not yet.
