I just use dyndns.org. free and easy to use and update
DynDNS works, but not if you're behind a NAT or firewall that you have no control over (e.g. a coffee shop).
Showoff
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Re: Showoff
#92May want to fix this - http://i51.tinypic.com/2a00yyv.png - this is in FF4 on Windows XP.
(edit) I meant the text overflow, not the lack of the background image (which appears to be a problem on my side).
Re: Showoff
#93When I see new projects and ideas that take off, my response is usually a curmudgeonly observation about how stupid and pointless it is or how it's so obvious and trivial that I can't believe anyone would waste their time making it. This is not one of those. This is one of those cases where I'm not a bit jealous because something so obvious or inane or dumb took off and became Twitter, but because it's just so damn f…
well, it's trivial after reading ssh's man page. though the execution is nice and everything is packaged that relatively tech un-savvy users can make use of it.
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#94Awesome. 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…
This is very similar to my http://pagekite.net/, which offers both free trials and CNAME records already.
They're out-marketing me, I guess. It looks nicely done!
Re: Showoff
#95Awesome. 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…
This is very similar to my http://pagekite.net/ , which offers both free trials and CNAME records already. They're out-marketing me, I guess. It looks nicely done!
It's not obvious by looking at the pagekite homepage what the product does. Lots of focus on the benefits, but as a developer, I'd rather just know what it does and how to use it
I would even suggest taking inspiration from the clearly annotated three-panel diagram on the showoff.io homepage - very clear and simple. I am guessing that pagekite might offer more functionality than this, but again, I am having trouble figuring that out.
Best of luck!
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#96Earlier quoted context omitted.
Ah, that makes sense. Thanks.
Funny, I thought you mentioned the VPS because you could still reverse tunnel and share the app in your laptop without deploying. I was going to say that it's still a good idea since the day pass is just $1. p.s. surprised they didn't go for 99 cents
No, you can reverse tunnel through a VPS and get the same effect, but you're paying 2-5x as much for virtually the same thing (unless you already have a VPS).
Re: Showoff
#97If 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.
I came in here to start a sentence like " I dont want to be a dick, but..." and you've answered. Thanks.
Showoff is a great idea though, best of luck!!
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#98Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is very similar to my http://pagekite.net/ , which offers both free trials and CNAME records already. They're out-marketing me, I guess. It looks nicely done!
It's not obvious by looking at the pagekite homepage what the product does. Lots of focus on the benefits, but as a developer, I'd rather just know what it does and how to use it I would even suggest taking inspiration from the clearly annotated three-panel diagram on the showoff.io homepage - very clear and simple. I am guessing that pagekite might offer more functionality than this, but again, I am having trouble f…
Yes, we have been struggling with a focus problem. We're techies (and our tech is good), not marketing gurus. :-)
Thanks!
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#99I 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.
At the corporates I've worked at, this product would have been preemptively blocked anyway because it relies on an outbound ssh connection through the external firewall, which wouldn't have been allowed. I'm not sure if that's standard practice at other SuperGloboCorp organizations.
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#100I think your web page is very unclear.
"Share a project on your laptop" doesn't really specify that I can share a web server on my laptop. Maybe that's implicit in the HN community, but my first thought was that it was a tool for automatically posting updates of my screen to a web site, which I thought was an awesome idea. Then I read the comments here, and with some disappointment concluded that it's forwarding a network port...