34 engineers on Hacker News describe using Phoenix first-hand: 22 endorse it, 1 regret it, 1 are mixed.
“Since then it's worked well for the most part”
endorse · production · 4 yr · doomspork · 2025-08-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?“When I compare the amount of ongoing effort to keep a PHP, Node, or Python app running securely in prod with the ongoing effort with a Phoenix app, it's usually a better deal for them.”
endorse · production · freedomben · 2025-05-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“now that I'm mainly doing Elixir (Phoenix and LiveView)”
endorse · production · freedomben · 2024-04-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Elixir and Phoenix since 2016. In Elixir I can just go `iex -S mix phx.server`”
endorse · production · 6 yr · sergiotapia · 2022-12-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we migrated our data-heavy site Classic.com from Next.js to Phoenix + LiveView + Surface.”
endorse · production · tlack · 2022-10-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we are lucky that currently it is super easy to deploy”
endorse · production · miguelcoba · 2022-01-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Elixir/Phoenix every day since 2017 to build apps, glue systems together”
endorse · production · 4 yr · mrdoops · 2021-12-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“At my current company, we use Phoenix and we use a lot of its bells and whistles.”
endorse · production · eropple · 2021-12-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Even 6 years ago when I started, you could just run it in production with `mix phx.server`”
endorse · production · 6 yr · AlchemistCamp · 2021-12-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“hackable in JavaScript, but haven't found it compelling enough to keep hacking at my config”
mixed · personal · rcarmo · 2021-12-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Phoenix rather than Rails as my go to for web development”
endorse · personal · AlchemistCamp · 2020-12-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Phoenix Presence, domain modeling using Phoenix Contexts ... have made programming a joy.”
endorse · production · 1 yr · kuiro5 · 2020-12-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“IMO Elixir/Phoenix do a really good job of abstracting all of that away from you”
endorse · production · 4 yr · enraged_camel · 2020-11-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“It's totally possible to run Phoenix in prod. I started learning elixir and am using Phoenix for https://getlounge.app.”
endorse · production · theanirudh · 2020-09-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?“phoenix was complete misfit for us as well, so i ended up hating it for no reason”
regret · production · zulgan · 2020-05-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Phoenix came in with a clear story for all the work I wanted to accomplish.”
endorse · production · cultofmetatron · 2020-04-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We have switched to an Phoenix (elixir) server which listens to the database, then clients subscribe via websockets.”
endorse · production · kiwicopple · 2019-11-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We replaced a huge Meteor app with Phoenix and elixir. From 12GB ram required - we went down to 1.1GB.”
endorse · production · sergiotapia · 2018-04-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I switched to Elixir/Phoenix and it was great”
endorse · personal · G4BB3R · 2017-12-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I use a good mix of Elixir+Phoenix and old-school cron launched Python utility scripts, and that works nicely.”
endorse · personal · blunte · 2017-12-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I switched to Elixir and Phoenix mostly because I prefer functional languages.”
endorse · production · brandonmenc · 2017-11-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“and ultra easy to do in Phoenix/Elixir, but painful in Play/Scala”
endorse · personal · neya · 2017-07-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Phoenix makes a couple of great design choices influenced by its erlang heritage.”
endorse · production · benwilson513 · 2015-01-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“As someone with a Phoenix app running in production, I can tell you that this framework hits the sweet spot of providing lots of value”
endorse · production · drewolson · 2014-11-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“converting to Go, Elixir/Phoenix, or Rust/Axum depending on the app”
neutral · personal · thraxil · 2026-10-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I just use phoenix with some special hotkeys to move windows into positions and tile them.”
neutral · personal · 10 yr · sleepybrett · 2025-12-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I sadly stopped using Elixir/Phoenix/LV for new projects I still have some in production that I was waiting for the 1.0 release to update.”
neutral · production · conradfr · 2024-12-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We're using `Phoenix.Tracker` to globally distribute the Erlang PIDs of all of our Postgres connections.”
neutral · production · kiwicopple · 2022-08-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've already got some Phoenix apps running in prod”
neutral · production · freedomben · 2022-01-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We replaced webpack with esbuild in our Phoenix 1.5 app.”
neutral · production · generalk · 2021-08-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I haven't had a single performance issue with a bunch of different Rails, Flask, Node, Phoenix and Jekyll apps”
neutral · production · nickjj · 2018-12-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“running Dockerized web apps (mostly Flask, Rails and Phoenix apps with Webpack, etc.)”
neutral · production · nickjj · 2018-12-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?“if you learn how Kubernetes deploys you automatically know how to deploy Phoenix applications”
neutral · production · CompuIves · 2018-03-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using it (phoenix) to build a more real-time version of my current rails app.”
neutral · personal · ffn · 2015-06-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?