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I am doing a startup (putting virtual machines on the web)

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Re: I am doing a startup (putting virtual machines on the web)

#101

Have you considered offering a customer self hosted option? It sounds like you could easily position it as a lightweight alternative to Citrix and Windows Terminal Services.

Sure, since the software is opensource, anyone can set it up and use it for self hosted vms.

I was thinking some kind of supported version or support agreement. Lots of companies won't run anything internally that doesn't come with some kind of vendor support.

Re: I am doing a startup (putting virtual machines on the web)

#102
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Have you seen http://www.spoon.net/ ? It seems very similar to the StackVM idea.

I hadn't seen spoon.net! Now investigating!

But just another interesting web service that demands my card details before it will tell me how much anything costs! Fundamental mistake? I think so...

Re: I am doing a startup (putting virtual machines on the web)

#104

The use cases are really interesting; online product demos will be a killer feature, and we wouldn't have to worry about piracy (we're able to monitor the piracy rates of our desktop app, and it's about 25% of our paid subscriptions)...

Hi chunkbot,

Wanted to reach out to you through email but was unable to find any contact information.

We'd like to work more closely with you on perfecting the online product demos feature. Would you be interested in testing it out on your website soon? Please contact me at peter@catonmat.net!

Peteris

Re: I am doing a startup (putting virtual machines on the web)

#105

Very interesting! Assuming that you will have reasonable pricing and a fast connection, I would be very interested in using this service for my own startup.

Hi DrJokepu,

I couldn't find your contact information so I am replying here. Can you reach me at peter@catonmat.net?

I'd like to know more about how you'd use stackvm at your startup, so that when we launch stackvm we already had a usable product!

Peteris

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