As a former user of Kafka, this is awesome and it would have been a huge help for our company if this was available then. I'm glad to hear that a company is offering Kafka as opposed to other propriety versions(AWS Kinesis etc).
One thing is odd though, there is no mention of disk space at all and only a configuration of retention time. One of Kafka's best features is the use of disk to store large amounts of messages, you are not RAM bound. Heroku seems to only allows you to set retention times? This could be awesome if they are giving you "unlimited" disk space, but could also be a beta oversight. Interested to see how this progresses.
Hi, I'm Maciek and I work on the Heroku Kafka team. You don't have to think about disk space--it's on us to make sure there's enough to satisfy the retention settings you configure. We're excited to provide another great open-source project as a managed service!
Don't forget that Heroku is the original multi-tenant shop. I wouldnt be surprised if a single Kafka instance stores multiple customers's messages and elastically scale as more customers/data is added.
Up front, cool app. I really like this idea as a means of quick storage.
Not sure about the grocery list use case. You have already input your items and they are still visible in your message conversation with Nina, making the response back from Nina redundant in nature.
I tend to email myself article URLs from my phone to my laptop, so I think I will try using Nina for that.
I'm rolling out that feature in a few hours. I was a bit ambitions, but it will be `send to {{number}}`. Glad to hear that you found this as an important feature. I think it will be valuable too :)
That is very cool idea. I love saving the context there. It may be really cool to send an SMS contact too. That would make it one step less than the copy and paste.
