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Re: Exe.dev

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Post by crawshaw »

TekMol wrote: post #69

This is cool. I am currently using GitHub codespaces and I would love a version of it with nothing but a web based terminal. I don't need all the other windows they put around it. This might be it. Trying my way around it now. Not sure what is going on: me: apt install apache the shell: exe.dev repl: command not found: "apt" What is "exe.dev repl"? Am I not in a shell? me: bash the shell: exe.dev repl: command not fo…

[exe.dev co-founder here] Hi there, I am not sure exactly where you are, but your VM is ubuntu derived and definitely starts with apt and bash. Perhaps try `ssh yourvm.exe.xyz`?

Thanks for trying it!

Re: Exe.dev

#72

Post by TekMol »

crawshaw wrote: post #71
TekMol wrote: post #69

This is cool. I am currently using GitHub codespaces and I would love a version of it with nothing but a web based terminal. I don't need all the other windows they put around it. This might be it. Trying my way around it now. Not sure what is going on: me: apt install apache the shell: exe.dev repl: command not found: "apt" What is "exe.dev repl"? Am I not in a shell? me: bash the shell: exe.dev repl: command not fo…

[exe.dev co-founder here] Hi there, I am not sure exactly where you are, but your VM is ubuntu derived and definitely starts with apt and bash. Perhaps try `ssh yourvm.exe.xyz`? Thanks for trying it!

I can't use a native ssh client. I am using a browser. I clicked on "Shell" on top of the screen.

Oh, I think I found a real shell now! You have to click "VMs" then on the VM and then "Terminal".

Yay, this is great!

Re: Exe.dev

#73

Post by crawshaw »

m-hodges wrote: post #70

This is awesome. Would love to see a slimmer tier closer to a DO droplet or Hetzner instance that's ~$5-8 / month.

[exe.dev co-founder here] Thank you! Not to give too many secrets away, but my hope is to follow a business model I have been part of before, and make it as cheap as possible for individuals so they encourage their employers to buy it for work. So I would very much love to get cheaper.

The two constraints are that, one, when small underlying resources are expensive (we hope to fix that soon by not being small!), and two, we do not want to make the resource allocation so small that the VM feels unpleasant to use. So there is a floor on how small we make them.

That said, I very very much want to drop prices. We started with conservative numbers.

Re: Exe.dev

#74

Post by sureglymop »

ffsm8 wrote: post #61
adtac wrote: post #59

i got to try exe a while back and i have to say, the "Login with exe" [1] is probably the most magic thing i've seen since tailscale :) [1] https://exe.dev/docs/login-with-exe

That's called forward auth - or proxy auth You can do the same thing - with the added burden of actually having to set it up once ... After you set it up, it's however just as trivial to add new systems like with this linked example. I got pretty much everything I'm self-hosting like that via keycloak (which itself let's me do social with via GitHub and Google etc pp) and a very similar nginx config like it's shown i…

I think running and managing and possibly misconfiguring a keycloak java monolith would be exactly what I'd want to avoid which is why it's cool that they offer this.

Re: Exe.dev

#76

Post by Kiro »

sccxy wrote: post #64

That must be worst website ever made. Zero information available on mobile. I thought it is some kind of portfolio site that does not work on mobile.

Hyperbole much? I'm on mobile and think it's great. I wish more websites were like this. Just straight to the point instead of all the regular marketing fluff you need to decipher.

Re: Exe.dev

#77

Post by deanc »

sccxy wrote: post #64

That must be worst website ever made. Zero information available on mobile. I thought it is some kind of portfolio site that does not work on mobile.

I wouldn’t go that far but some link to pricing and documentation would be useful. I have absolutely no idea what the offering is here without those pieces of info.

Re: Exe.dev

#78

Post by machinationu »

Kiro wrote: post #76
sccxy wrote: post #64

That must be worst website ever made. Zero information available on mobile. I thought it is some kind of portfolio site that does not work on mobile.

Hyperbole much? I'm on mobile and think it's great. I wish more websites were like this. Just straight to the point instead of all the regular marketing fluff you need to decipher.

pricing information and what it does/how it works is not marketing fluff

Re: Exe.dev

#79

Post by sznio »

deanc wrote: post #77
sccxy wrote: post #64

That must be worst website ever made. Zero information available on mobile. I thought it is some kind of portfolio site that does not work on mobile.

I wouldn’t go that far but some link to pricing and documentation would be useful. I have absolutely no idea what the offering is here without those pieces of info.

Yeah. I managed to backtrack my way to the pricing through the about page.

It's really annoying when you're interested in a product but can't find a price.

Re: Exe.dev

#80

Post by sznio »

Looking at the pricing plan, even the cheapest one is overkill. I don't need that much. 2GB memory with a 6VM limit would be plenty.
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