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Re: Show HN: Termbox – Launch a Linux terminal with two clicks

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Post by koolba »

jgillich wrote: post #34
koolba wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Considering the captcha it actually takes 3 clicks to launch More like ten. Six for the captcha choices, one to submit the captcha, one to pick the server type, one to submit and get a " Server capacity reached, please try again later ", and finally one to close the browser tab.

I'm not going to rent a $500 server just to handle the HN traffic spike, sorry. Capacity will be expanded over time, but only after the service pays for itself (either through ads or paid features).

No worries. I'm looking forward to trying it out again after things quiet down a bit.

Fyi, it doesn't have to be a $500/mo server permanently either. Depending on where your hosting the backend, you could scale it up temporarily and then scale it back down when things quiet down. $500/mo is approx $16/day which could be well worth it for a day while enjoying an HN-driven bump.

Re: Show HN: Termbox – Launch a Linux terminal with two clicks

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Post by jajern »

Hates_ wrote: post #3

Stupid question maybe, but what would the use case for something like this be? Can I run a server on it?

I'm curious too. I can't think of any reason I would use this. Maybe to use during an online course or something, but most of them offer a way to do that already.

Re: Show HN: Termbox – Launch a Linux terminal with two clicks

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Post by diggan »

nkkollaw wrote: post #40
jgillich wrote: post #2

Termbox is somewhat similar to the recently announced dply.co, but I think our approach is much better for the following reasons: * The interface is super streamlined. Open the page, confirm captcha, click launch - boom, you got a terminal. The planned SSH support will be similar to that - no web page, just do ssh root@ubuntu.termbox.io and you get logged in to a Ubuntu box. * We use VM based containers (hypercontain…

Why do you publicize it as 2 clicks? It's 1 click. Ubuntu is selected by default. Captcha doesn't count as click. I'd market it as Terminal in 1 click.

> Captcha doesn't count as click

Eh, why not? Can you skip the captcha somehow?

Re: Show HN: Termbox – Launch a Linux terminal with two clicks

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Post by diggan »

jgillich wrote: post #31
Matt3o12_ wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What is the difference begeeen docker, a traditional VM and hypercontainer? And what are the trade off of hypercontainer?

There's a comparison table here: https://hypercontainer.io/why-hyper.html

Makes for a suspicious comparison when both the two other options, have no features that hyper doesn't or is better. I understand that this comparison comes from you, and it's not easy being completely fair when doing a comparison, but I can't find anywhere anything against using Hyper or even any tradeoffs.

Re: Show HN: Termbox – Launch a Linux terminal with two clicks

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Post by deadmik3 »

diggan wrote: post #44
nkkollaw wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why do you publicize it as 2 clicks? It's 1 click. Ubuntu is selected by default. Captcha doesn't count as click. I'd market it as Terminal in 1 click.

> Captcha doesn't count as click Eh, why not? Can you skip the captcha somehow?

Yeah my first thought was "this took 3 clicks"

edit: maybe that's why they market it as "2 clicks"... since ubuntu is selected by default and captcha definitely counts as a click

Re: Show HN: Termbox – Launch a Linux terminal with two clicks

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Post by butz »

diggan wrote: post #44
nkkollaw wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why do you publicize it as 2 clicks? It's 1 click. Ubuntu is selected by default. Captcha doesn't count as click. I'd market it as Terminal in 1 click.

> Captcha doesn't count as click Eh, why not? Can you skip the captcha somehow?

It could be done if author implements Invisible reCaptcha.

Re: Show HN: Termbox – Launch a Linux terminal with two clicks

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Post by jgillich »

diggan wrote: post #45
jgillich wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's a comparison table here: https://hypercontainer.io/why-hyper.html

Makes for a suspicious comparison when both the two other options, have no features that hyper doesn't or is better. I understand that this comparison comes from you, and it's not easy being completely fair when doing a comparison, but I can't find anywhere anything against using Hyper or even any tradeoffs.

I'm not involved with Hyper/HyperContainer, I'm just a user and recently started contributing. I've had hyperd silently crashing once, and the API and tooling is a bit rough, but these things can be fixed. No complaints so far from a purely architectural viewpoint.

Re: Show HN: Termbox – Launch a Linux terminal with two clicks

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Post by jgillich »

butz wrote: post #47
diggan wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Captcha doesn't count as click Eh, why not? Can you skip the captcha somehow?

It could be done if author implements Invisible reCaptcha.

I will do that the day it becomes publicly available, but no sooner because I'm serious about Termbox being open source.
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