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i havent tried showoff.io and little curious about how about internal reference translations? for example css files? does this translates to ???
Anyway, re: translations, I believe it's a tunnel so your local server is visible to the outside world as myserv.showoff.io - thus, no translation of anything.
When 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…
This looks awesome. I would not use something like this because I have lots of ways to make it happen without paying extra (as in I already have a bunch of servers I can use for ssh tunneling). However, I can see how you would get a bunch of dedicated users. Good luck. My only question is: won't this service be completely obsoleted by IPv6? I already use IPv6 instead of having to VPN into a NAT'ed office from my NAT'…
Just because you have an IPv6 address doesn't mean you won't be trapped behind a firewall that blocks incoming connections.
And when you have an IPv6 address and want to show something to a person with an IPv4 address... then you will definitely need either showoff or pagekite, or something like that to act as a bridge.
i havent tried showoff.io and little curious about how about internal reference translations? for example css files? does this translates to ???
Out of interest, why use absolute URLs at all if the files aren't on a different server? Won't you have to go through and change them all when you deploy? Anyway, re: translations, I believe it's a tunnel so your local server is visible to the outside world as myserv.showoff.io - thus, no translation of anything.
Awesome. 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!
Here is some honest critique for you: It's about more than marketing. Where they are blowing you guys away is usability -- partly in the product itself, but more on the website.
In less than 100 words I know: a) exactly what showoff does, and b) exactly how to get it up and running.
Compare that to your Quick Start guide: https://pagekite.net/support/quickstart/
I mean, my eyes just glaze over when I see that. Get me running and get out of my way. As someone else in the thread said, don't waste my time selling me "benefits" -- that's what enterprise salespeople do to enterprise buyers.
Also, I like that you have a free trial, but when are you going to tell me how much it costs? And do I really need to complete an optional survey and check a terms of service box?
Sorry if I sound like I'm being hard on you guys, but even though I don't know you at all I'm confident you're capable of more. :) Don't fall back on the "we're not good at marketing" excuse. Spend a lot of time thinking about how you can simplify, simplify, simplify, simplify every single aspect of the interaction on your website and your product itself.
I'll keep my eye on your product though. Thanks.
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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!
Thanks for sharing. Here is some honest critique for you: It's about more than marketing. Where they are blowing you guys away is usability -- partly in the product itself, but more on the website. In less than 100 words I know: a) exactly what showoff does, and b) exactly how to get it up and running. Compare that to your Quick Start guide: https://pagekite.net/support/quickstart/ I mean, my eyes just glaze over whe…
rock & roll!!!!!!!!
Does this use SNI ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Name_Indication ) to allow for multiple vhosts on same IP? (since they use a *.showoff.io wildcard certificate). As I understand it, SNI does not work on IE7 on XP (Konqueror apparently has trouble with it too).
I 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 ne…
Awesome. 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!