I'm Anders, co-founder of Shoehorn (https://shoehorn.dev/).For about a year I was genuinely excited about Backstage. Saw the Spotify demo, thought "I want that too". Turned out it wasn't as easy. But to be fair, Backstage is a great piece of software. Powerful, flexible, and if you have a dedicated developer team to run it, you can build something amazing on top of it.The catch is exactly that: you need a dedicated team. Most companies don't have one. Or they do, and that team would rather be solving product problems than maintaining the platform that helps everyone else solve theirs. We wanted something that gave teams 90% of the value with 10% of the operational overhead.We built Shoehorn out of frustration.Goals from the start:1. A great UI, API first, Terraform and CLI: That's what most users actually want.2. Surface problems clearly: No silent failures, no "why didn't my service show up." If something's wrong, you see it.3. Automate the boring stuff: The data is already in GitHub,...