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Re: Launch any browser/OS right from your desktop with Sauce for Mac

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Folks, this website is not called "internet love fest". Please stop downvoting me for giving honest and complete feedback of my experience with the app.

I work at Sauce and I upvoted your comment because I think it's great feedback. But "internet love fest news" sounds like a great Show HN.

I assumed that's what the newest iTunes release in Russia was supposed to be.

Re: Launch any browser/OS right from your desktop with Sauce for Mac

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Still. I feel like the price is way too much. The recommended plan is $149/month. For the long run, buying a decent machine and running your own virtual machines would be cheaper. Someone prove me wrong.

What you're seeing is actually pricing for our automated testing service. Sauce for Mac is either free (30 mins of testing/mo) or $12/mo (for unlimited minutes against all browsers). It also comes included with all the testing plans on that page.

Whoa, this is news to me, I checked out sauce a month or so ago and came to the same conclusion as highwind. $12/mo is something that I would be more interested in. You should make that way more obvious. I haven't fully harnessed the power of TDD and it isn't used at my current job so I have no use for it. On the other hand the ability to test websites on different browsers is very important to my job and for $12/mo it's something I can afford to get for myself to use for work and personal projects.

Re: Launch any browser/OS right from your desktop with Sauce for Mac

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+ Our browser based testing service is also available at http://saucelabs.com + We have an accountless version on the front page, followed by free and open source accounts. +We have a very secure and mature tunneling system called Sauce Connect: http://www.saucelabs.com/docs/connect Five minutes of research would have been helpful.

My bad. I totally agree with you. Hmm, you might improve conversion if you put trial button above the fold. Also pre-spinning an instance for demo would be truly awesome.

Thanks for the input, feel free to email me admc@saucelabs.com with your account and I'll happily give you some extra minutes to check everything out.

Re: Launch any browser/OS right from your desktop with Sauce for Mac

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-1 for forcing me to use the Mac App Store — the copy on the landing page you sent me to made it sound like there was a way to download it directly. Before I could download it I was presented with multiple alerts and pages of bullshit regarding my Apple ID and the App Store terms of service. Not a good experience. -1 for not having a link to create a new account from the first dialogue box in the app. I can either lo…

Folks, this website is not called "internet love fest". Please stop downvoting me for giving honest and complete feedback of my experience with the app.

Let this be your lesson that presentation does, in fact, matter. Whatever your intent, your post reads as an excessively negative scorecard.

And nobody wants to read excessively negative content, man. It's a drag.

Re: Launch any browser/OS right from your desktop with Sauce for Mac

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Still. I feel like the price is way too much. The recommended plan is $149/month. For the long run, buying a decent machine and running your own virtual machines would be cheaper. Someone prove me wrong.

Your own VMs have to be created, stored and maintained. For small shops, managing even a relatively small catalogs of images can be quite a time-consuming process, let alone building multiple automated test processes.

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Re: Launch any browser/OS right from your desktop with Sauce for Mac

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I was a bit worried about how this would work on a company intranet. I know my IT network security people are pretty paranoid about bridge networks and all that. Looking at Sauce Connect[1], they recommend to put the service on a dedicated machine on your intranet that you can zone off so it only has access to the parts of the network you want to allow. Seems like a decent solution to allow a running a cloud service…

Still. I feel like the price is way too much. The recommended plan is $149/month. For the long run, buying a decent machine and running your own virtual machines would be cheaper. Someone prove me wrong.

There might be OS licensing issues involved in having people launch a VM running Windows or Mac OS X. Perhaps some of those costs are factored in?

Re: Launch any browser/OS right from your desktop with Sauce for Mac

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-1 for forcing me to use the Mac App Store — the copy on the landing page you sent me to made it sound like there was a way to download it directly. Before I could download it I was presented with multiple alerts and pages of bullshit regarding my Apple ID and the App Store terms of service. Not a good experience. -1 for not having a link to create a new account from the first dialogue box in the app. I can either lo…

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Re: Launch any browser/OS right from your desktop with Sauce for Mac

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-1 for forcing me to use the Mac App Store — the copy on the landing page you sent me to made it sound like there was a way to download it directly. Before I could download it I was presented with multiple alerts and pages of bullshit regarding my Apple ID and the App Store terms of service. Not a good experience. -1 for not having a link to create a new account from the first dialogue box in the app. I can either lo…

Folks, this website is not called "internet love fest". Please stop downvoting me for giving honest and complete feedback of my experience with the app.

It's also not called "let's complain about downvotes like a redditor."

Re: Launch any browser/OS right from your desktop with Sauce for Mac

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post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Folks, this website is not called "internet love fest". Please stop downvoting me for giving honest and complete feedback of my experience with the app.

Let this be your lesson that presentation does, in fact, matter. Whatever your intent, your post reads as an excessively negative scorecard. And nobody wants to read excessively negative content, man. It's a drag.

I got the same feeling. Although I agree with some of the points made I think it was the way it was worded and the "-1's" that came off as really distasteful.
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