Very nice tool. I expect to use it, and happily pay for it.
I like subtle, minimalist design, and the look grabbed me. But I also have somewhat diminished vision, and I had to blow the page up a lot to read it.
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Re: Showoff
#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
Ah, gotcha. So the product that is being sold is simplicity. Are you the creator? If so, I would suggest: - more contrast between text and background - explain who the intended user is (web dev w/o strong LAMP background. I would find it easier to turn all that stuff on than to try to use a new product, and it's not worth even $1 to me to do that... so I'm clearly not your target customer) - explain what your value p…
Well, to be fair, and this is personal opinion, Showoff has little to do with whether or not a developer has a strong LAMP background (or .NET, or Haskell, or insert-your-favorite-stack here). And yet it has everything to do with whether or not a developer has a strong LAMP/whatever background. Showoff is not intended to replace your stack--at all. In fact, this product came from a strong server-side background. If y…
Sure, and I didn't mean to appear like I was stating the service was useless. It obviously has use -- it is a cheap shortcut that will reduce a very obvious pain point. An excellent business idea.
All I was saying is two-part:
1) the marketing copy on the landing page needs some work. the design needs some work as well. The main message was unclear to me
2) this product isn't for everyone. E.g., I do all my dev work on virtual machines. One of my colleagues has a custom deployment script. Many people use continuous deployment.
I guess all I'm suggesting is that the creator move to market themselves to a certain segment of the population. I'm not in that segment, but it was difficult for me to determine that. I suspect it's because the copywriter is loathe to exclude a possible customer. In my opinion, the "grab at everyone" approach hurts more than it helps. Go specific!
And finally, not everyone has Ruby running. I've never installed a gem in my life. Which would I rather do: something that I have done a million times and have partially/fully automated (depl to internet), or try to setup a ruby system?
Re: Showoff
#53Awesome. I'm definitely a potential paying customer. Two suggestions and a question: * How about a free trial for unlimited access or some other kind of cancellation guarantee? * Minor one, but the dark contrast on your website UI is about equivalent to the background on a typical lightbox...i.e. it reads "disabled" to me on first glance. One question: I assume I could map a CNAME record to the showoff URL? (So cooki…
We're going to add CNAME support soon. Thanks for the feedback about the color scheme. If you sign up for an unlimited account and you're _really_ unhappy, send an email to support@showoff.io and we can talk about a refund :)
Cool good to know. :) Less a matter of the money, more a matter of wanting to easily play around with the "full strength" version to see if it really works for me.
I happen to be working on an account/authentication service right now, so being able to rig it with a working domain name (via CNAME) so cookies work with my app is definitely big on my list.
Re: Showoff
#54If you have a public facing server then this can be had for free: ssh -nNT -R 8080:localhost:3000 myserver.com Et voilà, myserver.com:8080 now points to localhost:3000.
Yup, this is basically what showoff is doing. Showoff is nice because it gives you:
* HTTPS * Works without access to public-facing server. * Pretty URL * Eventually will support more stuff besides just port-forwarding :)
Re: Showoff
#55If you have a public facing server then this can be had for free: ssh -nNT -R 8080:localhost:3000 myserver.com Et voilà, myserver.com:8080 now points to localhost:3000.
There's this bit about the 'show' command on your computer. I'm wondering if that's a bash script, or a standalone bit of software to forward data to their servers?
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#56I was looking for exactly this service a few weeks ago and would be a paying customer, but I develop on Windows.
A future market, if you're interested.
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#57I love it and I'll probably buy a few day passes here and there.
I also think Fortune 500 security teams are going to be blacklisting this domain soon just to keep their devs from opening holes in the firewall.
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#58Awesome. I'm definitely a potential paying customer. Two suggestions and a question: * How about a free trial for unlimited access or some other kind of cancellation guarantee? * Minor one, but the dark contrast on your website UI is about equivalent to the background on a typical lightbox...i.e. it reads "disabled" to me on first glance. One question: I assume I could map a CNAME record to the showoff URL? (So cooki…
I second the dark contrast point. My first reaction on the site was "omg, what can I do to put some color and some life here". I even tried playing with the bookmarks on the top right corner to see if they would light up the site.
I've been using OS X too long, since I instinctually thought the website was grey out / not active.
Re: Showoff
#59If you have a public facing server then this can be had for free: ssh -nNT -R 8080:localhost:3000 myserver.com Et voilà, myserver.com:8080 now points to localhost:3000.
There's this bit about the 'show' command on your computer. I'm wondering if that's a bash script, or a standalone bit of software to forward data to their servers?
`show` is just the command that sets up the ssh tunnel. Doesn't forward data or anything like that.
EDIT: It's not a bash script. It's a Ruby wrapper.
Re: Showoff
#60This looks awesome. I would not use something like this because I have lots of ways to make it happen without paying extra (as in I already have a bunch of servers I can use for ssh tunneling). However, I can see how you would get a bunch of dedicated users. Good luck.
My only question is: won't this service be completely obsoleted by IPv6? I already use IPv6 instead of having to VPN into a NAT'ed office from my NAT'ed home. Just giving someone who has IPv6 connectivity a URL that uses one of my IPv6 addresses will accomplish something similar, will it not?