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You are not the target audience if "how" was not apparent to you
I am the target audience and I still had no idea what the site was promoting from just the landing page.
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It is showing non-stop loading blink but nothing happens. And cannot open keyboard if that is needed. It is like big CTA but does not do anything. Very strange landing page for maybe cool product.
It’s not a loading blink, it’s just some text telling you what the service is
it's a cursor ready blink
I think knowing what the ssh command does is a pretty low bar for this platform
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#143So I tried this the other day after Filippo Valsorda, another Go person, posted about it. My reaction was 'whoa, this really makes it easier to start a quick project', and it took a minute to figure out why I felt that way when, I mean, I have a laptop and could spin up cloud stuff--arguably I already had what I needed. I think it's the combination of 1) really quick to get going, 2) isolated and disposable environme…
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#144That 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.
Come on guys, it literally says 'ssh exe.dev'
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#145That 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.
The exact text on mobile is
> ssh exe.dev
> The disk persists. You have sudo.
I've seen enough of these kinds of services in my lifetime that I also immediately knew what it was, for example sdf.org, which is one of the OG services, and various "tilde" services like tilde.town.
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#146Very impressive demo. From VM curation to vibe coding something running on port 8000 in Shelley just worked in minutes. I imagine quite a few technically impressive things happening under the hood, would be interested in reading more about those.
Small nit: I think you should make it more clear in the docs (if not in the landing page) that one can just use any key with the ssh command the very first time and it automatically gets registered. Also on the web UI one should have the ability to add the ssh keys. I logged into the web UI first, and was a bit confused.
I think the pricing is alright for the resource and remote development features, though might be a bit much if someone doesn't need higher level of resources for deploying something that's mostly already developed.
Anyway, this reminds me of a product called Okteto that had similar UX. They were focused on leveraging k8s for declarative deployment. But for some reason they suspended their managed cloud/SaaS offering for individual/non-enterprise clients, I wonder if it was because they couldn't make the pricing work. Hope that doesn't happen here.
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#147I wish they'd auto auth you with Github based on your pubkey, in a similar spirit to `ssh whoami.filippo.io`[1]. That would remove so much signup friction. SSH is really the only protocol you can do shenanigans like that over, it's a shame not to use them. [1] (seems overloaded right now) https://words.filippo.io/whoami-updated/
That is neat trick, and interesting to know that's how ssh git@github.com works, but that does not feel practical for a real usecase. Aside from relying on a scrape of the Github users API (there's no "look up user by pubkey" API), what if I wasn't expecting to automatically log in with Github?
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#148really cool stuff!
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#149Nice one. Love the coding agent web ui. I used https://temp-mail.org as I didn't want to use a real email. Enjoy my creation https://love-storm.exe.xyz:8001
Nobody can see this until you make the website public. (Test with a browser’s Incognito mode.)
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#150Earlier quoted context omitted.
"ssh exe.dev" is exactly the Linux command you would use to connect there via ssh. And it's stylized like command prompt.
The question wasn't "how to ssh into a server", it was "how did you figure out what it it from looking at the website"
"exe.dev is a subscription service that gives you virtual machines, with persistent disks, quickly and without fuss."
scroll down and hit the "about" link. I do agree though the landing page could be more resourceful.
I'm not going to SSH to a random server.