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Re: Webshell.io

#11

Post by mehdim »

sentiental wrote: post #10

I appreciate the technical rigor required to make this kind of service stable and safe, but I am worried about the usefulness of the product / who would use it. Building APIs into my own abstractions in a real web application basically means I'll never use this myself. A more casual developer may use this to build simple mashups, or maybe hack out something for a hackathon, but beyond that why would I go through the…

IFTTT for developers? with all I/O that API can really provide and the whole expressivity of Javascript for making more advanced scripts?

Re: Webshell.io

#12

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sentiental wrote: post #10

I appreciate the technical rigor required to make this kind of service stable and safe, but I am worried about the usefulness of the product / who would use it. Building APIs into my own abstractions in a real web application basically means I'll never use this myself. A more casual developer may use this to build simple mashups, or maybe hack out something for a hackathon, but beyond that why would I go through the…

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Re: Webshell.io

#13

Post by mehdim »

mehdim wrote: post #11
sentiental wrote: post #10

I appreciate the technical rigor required to make this kind of service stable and safe, but I am worried about the usefulness of the product / who would use it. Building APIs into my own abstractions in a real web application basically means I'll never use this myself. A more casual developer may use this to build simple mashups, or maybe hack out something for a hackathon, but beyond that why would I go through the…

IFTTT for developers? with all I/O that API can really provide and the whole expressivity of Javascript for making more advanced scripts?

Or a Google Apps Script for not only "Google" APIs?

Re: Webshell.io

#14

Post by mehdim »

mehdim wrote: post #11
sentiental wrote: post #10

I appreciate the technical rigor required to make this kind of service stable and safe, but I am worried about the usefulness of the product / who would use it. Building APIs into my own abstractions in a real web application basically means I'll never use this myself. A more casual developer may use this to build simple mashups, or maybe hack out something for a hackathon, but beyond that why would I go through the…

IFTTT for developers? with all I/O that API can really provide and the whole expressivity of Javascript for making more advanced scripts?

A micro-service (or micro-API)creation by scripting existing APIs, in Javascript?

Re: Webshell.io

#15

Post by cmelbye »

mehdim wrote: post #6
NinetyNine wrote: post #5

Interacting and exploring APIs is either the newest fad or a gold rush for new business, but one of the biggest things stopping me from using them is integration into my existing stable tools. webshell.io is another service which is hosting your code on an external service, leaving you vulnerable to fluctuations in their uptime or stability as a company. There may be new opportunities in turning this into a desktop a…

But what would be the business model for such a desktop app?

Selling licenses, like most commercial desktop applications.

Re: Webshell.io

#16

Post by mehdim »

cmelbye wrote: post #15
mehdim wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But what would be the business model for such a desktop app?

Selling licenses, like most commercial desktop applications.

Very long sales processes but yes. It is better to be a Salesforce-like platform... How Salesforce did to enforce a cloud platform as a SPOF for CRM?

Re: Webshell.io

#17

Post by cmelbye »

mehdim wrote: post #16
cmelbye wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Selling licenses, like most commercial desktop applications.

Very long sales processes but yes. It is better to be a Salesforce-like platform... How Salesforce did to enforce a cloud platform as a SPOF for CRM?

Eh, how so? Put in your credit card details, and the download starts.

Re: Webshell.io

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Post by mehdim »

cmelbye wrote: post #17
mehdim wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Very long sales processes but yes. It is better to be a Salesforce-like platform... How Salesforce did to enforce a cloud platform as a SPOF for CRM?

Eh, how so? Put in your credit card details, and the download starts.

sorry but no download with Salesforce, (following my request) and they are still SPOF for CRM right?

But yes for a desktop you are right. "credit card details and download"

Re: Webshell.io

#19

Post by steeve »

primaryobjects wrote: post #9

I played with it @ http://webshell.io/prototype/Njc5Z/7 It seems to work. This uses a REST service I recently wrote in node.js + mongodb. Edit: 14 people click the link and hit Run, but no one changes the text? Come on. I wrote a second little app to track this at http://webshell.io/prototype/Njc5Z/8 just keep clicking Run to see it update, as people run the original app and hopefully enter their name or something.

Updated version to use arguments: http://webshell.io/prototype/Njc5Z/14

Re: Webshell.io

#20

Post by moe »

gojomo wrote: post #7

Finally, a shell that has the past trail off below (revchron/blog-style) rather than up above (typewriter/terminal-style)!

  printed in any other way...
  would want their shell output
  I never understood why anyone

  Yes, what a great innovation!
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