Vagon – Personal high performance computer in the cloud
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Re: Vagon – Personal high performance computer in the cloud
#2Hey HN!
vagon is a personal cloud-computer that is built to help creatives with flexible performance. Architects, CAD designers, video editors, animators, researchers - they all need powerful computers to create things and that’s what we are trying to provide. Our goal is to make running graphics software such as Adobe or Autodesk products possible even from a Chromebook or a veteran Macbook Air.
After a lot of hard work, we've finally launched our beta. We’d love to hear your feedback and recommendations to make it better!
Through our web app, you can - create your personal vagon computer, - install your software, - sync your files, and use it as you use any other computer.
You can access your vagon anywhere - you only need a stable connection and a computer to use it.
P.S: We are currently on Product Hunt, you can visit our post and get a 2 months free coupon code to get you started right away.
Re: Vagon – Personal high performance computer in the cloud
#3Wow, mixing monthly and hourly pricing like that is borderline fraud. Especially when you advertise it as a $8/mo service when the actual price for a typical 160h work month is $215. For the cheapest option. That's 26x the advertised price! At that point, buying an equivalent computer yourself would break even in months. And it'd work without a stable internet connection!
Here in Sweden all taxis advertise the component prices, but the the most prominent price has to be the "Jämförpris" (comparison price), which is the price of a standardized "typical" journey.
And of course this has to use Intercom, in an even more invasive and annoying configuration than usual.
I suppose my only solace is that people have tried this idea before[0], and at least they seem to be well on their way to bankruptcy.
Re: Vagon – Personal high performance computer in the cloud
#4At work, we use Paperspace quite a bit for Desktop-as-a-Service in order to teach distance learning and in-person classes. We like not having to rely on our users having beefy(ish) laptops or being able to install software on them. The killer paperspace features for us, in no particular order, are:
1. Private networks -> keep classes isolated 2. Shared drives -> mount read-only class data 3. Create machine images -> build out the 'base' class image and spawn new instances from it 4. An API for spinning up and down
It seems like you are positioning yourselves as more for individuals and less for companies. It's not clear fo me from the landing page, but does Vagon require you download and install a client? Or is there a browser-only option? If we were to spin up, say 35 VMs, and then destroyed them a week later, is that $7.99/month charged for each machine or just once? Is it pro-rated if you don't use the whole month?
Re: Vagon – Personal high performance computer in the cloud
#5Wow, mixing monthly and hourly pricing like that is borderline fraud. Especially when you advertise it as a $8/mo service when the actual price for a typical 160h work month is $215. For the cheapest option. That's 26x the advertised price! At that point, buying an equivalent computer yourself would break even in months. And it'd work without a stable internet connection! Here in Sweden all taxis advertise the compon…
I think you're looking at it wrong. The price for the base service (so storing your settings/app configuration) is $8 /mo while the usage itself is added to that. The pricing to me is pretty straightforward.
On a side note, do you really take solace in watching businesses go to bankruptcy? Why though?
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#6At work, we use Paperspace quite a bit for Desktop-as-a-Service in order to teach distance learning and in-person classes. We like not having to rely on our users having beefy(ish) laptops or being able to install software on them. The killer paperspace features for us, in no particular order, are: 1. Private networks -> keep classes isolated 2. Shared drives -> mount read-only class data 3. Create machine images ->…
How do you remote into Paperspace instances? Is there a custom client that performs well? Every few months I'll tinker with setting up a Linux desktop in some generic cloud provider, but the lack of good remote desktop X solutions is always a pain point.
EDIT: after some more clicking around I managed to find references to a Paperspace "native app" for remote desktop. I may sign up for an account and give it a try, since I just noticed Vagon only supports Windows machines at the moment.
Re: Vagon – Personal high performance computer in the cloud
#7At work, we use Paperspace quite a bit for Desktop-as-a-Service in order to teach distance learning and in-person classes. We like not having to rely on our users having beefy(ish) laptops or being able to install software on them. The killer paperspace features for us, in no particular order, are: 1. Private networks -> keep classes isolated 2. Shared drives -> mount read-only class data 3. Create machine images ->…
How do you remote into Paperspace instances? Is there a custom client that performs well? Every few months I'll tinker with setting up a Linux desktop in some generic cloud provider, but the lack of good remote desktop X solutions is always a pain point. EDIT: after some more clicking around I managed to find references to a Paperspace "native app" for remote desktop. I may sign up for an account and give it a try, s…
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Re: Vagon – Personal high performance computer in the cloud
#8Hey HN! vagon is a personal cloud-computer that is built to help creatives with flexible performance. Architects, CAD designers, video editors, animators, researchers - they all need powerful computers to create things and that’s what we are trying to provide. Our goal is to make running graphics software such as Adobe or Autodesk products possible even from a Chromebook or a veteran Macbook Air. After a lot of hard…
Just a thought -- chromebooks are often being used in school setting as a cheap alternative to having an expensive Macbook Pro or something equivalent.
A student discount could go a long way.
Re: Vagon – Personal high performance computer in the cloud
#9At work, we use Paperspace quite a bit for Desktop-as-a-Service in order to teach distance learning and in-person classes. We like not having to rely on our users having beefy(ish) laptops or being able to install software on them. The killer paperspace features for us, in no particular order, are: 1. Private networks -> keep classes isolated 2. Shared drives -> mount read-only class data 3. Create machine images ->…
You are correct to assume we position ourselves to serve individuals. Because of this if you spin up 35 workstations, that would unfortunately mean 35 different subscriptions for storage. And yes currently the subscription price is pro-rated for the whole month.
Currently we only have the browser only client to connect to your workstation with native clients in development.
This being our beta launch, obviously we've a lot to learn and adapt about our customers so your feedback has been very useful.
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#10So, like, AWS + remote desktop?