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Show HN: XPipe, a shell connection hub for SSH, Docker, K8s, VMs, and more

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Re: Show HN: XPipe, a shell connection hub for SSH, Docker, K8s, VMs, and more

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I just want to purchase software these days. Not another subscription.

I fully get that. The reason why it focuses on the subscription model is that is quite difficult to plan ahead with an irregular revenue stream. Everything is financed via bootstrapping, so I can't afford to burn through money or have irregular revenue over time when planning expenses.

Re: Show HN: XPipe, a shell connection hub for SSH, Docker, K8s, VMs, and more

#14
Hey, I just wanted to congratulate you with a very impressive release, the software looks amazing, and I think I will give it a try pretty soon. A question: I see only subscription pricing; is a lifetime licence possible, or a licence like the way jetbrains does it (you pay for version, and maintain the right to keep using the version that was available when the license/subscrition expires, you can re-activate any time).

I'm particularly interested in this "field". I've build something similar many moons ago [1], in the same spirit, but much more primitive. I later started a company around an evolved idea, where the structure you sort of see in your screenshots is effectively a DAG with arbitrary depth (we didn't manage to release it unfortunately, complexity overtook us).

In any case, much congratulations + good luck with the launch!

[1]: https://github.com/raaftech/session

Re: Show HN: XPipe, a shell connection hub for SSH, Docker, K8s, VMs, and more

#16
> connections to those systems are only possible starting from the professional plan: Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems, etc

/me blinks. An OS is an OS... so, access to developer licenses for these are Professional use too?

> connections to those systems are only possible starting from the homelab plan: Oracle Linux systems

/me blinks even more ...

Re: Show HN: XPipe, a shell connection hub for SSH, Docker, K8s, VMs, and more

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Tried it out and it's amazing!

I'm a freelancer working with different clients with a mix of the technologies you listed (Docker/Kubernetes) and I'm using Tailscale for mostly personal use-cases, so this hits all the right spots.

Up until now I proxied most of my stuff on a macOS client via "SSH Tunnel Manager", which has quite a clunky UI, and whenever I have to reconfigure something there the current feedback of the current connection state isn't always right. I just moved all those settings to XPipe, and it works like a charm.

Previously I also used the same solution for accessing some internal websites via a combination of the SSH tunnels + /etc/hosts entries + header rewrites, which depending on the complexity of the websites sometimes works great and sometimes doesn't at all. With XPipe I was easily able to set up a SOCKS proxy, which I previously gave up on trying to figure out. Paired that with FoxyProxy on Firefox and now all the websites work like a charm!

Re: Show HN: XPipe, a shell connection hub for SSH, Docker, K8s, VMs, and more

#18
post #14

Hey, I just wanted to congratulate you with a very impressive release, the software looks amazing, and I think I will give it a try pretty soon. A question: I see only subscription pricing; is a lifetime licence possible, or a licence like the way jetbrains does it (you pay for version, and maintain the right to keep using the version that was available when the license/subscrition expires, you can re-activate any ti…

Thanks! Yes, you can find lifetime licenses on the pricing page further down. A perpetual fallback license model like jetbrains has does not exist yet. But I could look into this in the future.

It's cool to see that there are also other people in that space. And about the complexity, I definitely know what you mean. It took a long while before this approach even worked and also took a while until it was actually stable. One of the main points of consideration whenever I think of adding something is the added complexity, because it's very important for me to keep that as low as possible. Otherwise I will end up with an unmaintainable workload. There were definitely a few interesting features I discarded to keep the application as lean as possible.

Re: Show HN: XPipe, a shell connection hub for SSH, Docker, K8s, VMs, and more

#19
post #10

Why are we still using Java for these kinds of solutions today?

Can you elaborate on that? Then I can better respond to your specific points on why it shouldn't be used

Well, it would necessitate a dedicated conversation. In my opinion, there are better languages and runtimes available today to create such solutions, such as Go and Rust, to name a couple of the most suitable ones.

I believe Java is no longer an appealing choice for these types of tools, but I still like the project and its development process.

Re: Show HN: XPipe, a shell connection hub for SSH, Docker, K8s, VMs, and more

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post #16

> connections to those systems are only possible starting from the professional plan: Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems, etc /me blinks. An OS is an OS... so, access to developer licenses for these are Professional use too? > connections to those systems are only possible starting from the homelab plan: Oracle Linux systems /me blinks even more ...

That is implemented under the assumption that these distros are most of the time used in enterprise contexts. I know that this is not always the case, there is the option to upgrade to a license at no cost to the next tier if you’re only using it for personal use. Just send me an email I can upgrade it for you.
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