23 engineers on Hacker News describe using Meteor first-hand: 6 endorse it, 10 regret it, 5 are mixed.
“I've worked with it for a project, gladly never again.”
regret · production · thiago_fm · 2025-09-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I spent four years working on a Meteor.js app. Meteor's main appeal is isomorphic code and a high degree of reactivity.”
mixed · production · 4 yr · indymike · 2022-06-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We replaced a huge Meteor app with Phoenix and elixir. From 12GB ram required - we went down to 1.1GB.”
regret · production · sergiotapia · 2018-04-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Meteor simply felt too much like a black box that caused a lot of scalability and maintainability problems in production.”
regret · production · Blixs · 2017-11-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We migrated on of our customer app from Meteor to Vue and Rails. By doing this, the app is much more easier to scale.”
regret · production · kimjongman · 2017-11-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Meteor developer for a long time here. ... in 4 years I haven't wrote a single one that used the real-time features properly.”
mixed · production · 4 yr · mariopt · 2017-11-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Updating the whole thing to more recent versions of Meteor was a little more annoying, in my opinion.”
regret · personal · richard_mcp · 2016-12-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“You echo the issues I've encountered with Meteor and the reasons why we got rid of it.”
regret · production · lykron · 2016-07-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Meteor, and I like it quite a bit... it's made me pretty productive.”
endorse · personal · rezistik · 2015-07-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using React and Meteor together to build a desktop web app for quantified self”
endorse · personal · liamzebedee · 2015-07-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?“As a long-time user of Meteor in production I have to say this is just about the exact opposite of how I think of Meteor.”
endorse · production · alanning · 2014-12-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Our biggest problem with Meteor was that as a new platform there were no enterprise level apps to model after.”
mixed · production · greggdourg · 2014-10-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Meteor for a couple of years now, and although it does a lot of magic, I recommend using it only for very simple projects.”
regret · production · 2 yr · jggonz · 2013-11-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we switched completely to meteor for all of our new projects. I think it's the framework of the near future.”
endorse · production · Sewdn · 2013-11-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Meteor in paid gigs for over a year now. I don't regret giving it a try... I've never been happier as a developer.”
endorse · production · 1 yr · harrylove · 2013-11-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I really like coding in Meteor... I've been using Meteor since it was sub v0.2 and its just improved each iteration.”
endorse · personal · 1.5 yr · Tarang · 2013-11-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“For a young framework it's come an exceptionally long way, and I haven't hesitated to use it in production for those use-cases that fit.”
mixed · production · napoleond · 2013-11-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I tried Meteor a few times and the whole thing just reeks of JSF. I wont touch it with a ten foot pole.”
regret · personal · dham · 2013-10-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?“But Meteor, I've been there done that.”
regret · personal · dham · 2013-10-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I don't say it is not possible to run Meteor app in production (I have one). It is just there are alot of different quirks and gotchas”
regret · production · joecarpenter · 2013-10-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've used it on a production site. There still is a learning curve, as with any new technology, but I've been very happy with it.”
mixed · production · eatmyshorts · 2013-10-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Was learning building web apps (Meteor) and launchd a full landing page / swing dance registration site while on the Camino.”
neutral · personal · yawnxyz · 2023-01-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Learning meteor and how to apply TDD with meteor.”
neutral · personal · nstart · 2015-07-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?