Is the source code for the server running at showoff.io available? One thing I like about pagekite is that both the client and server are open source. If you have a team of people who regularly need to to allow access to local servers, setting up your own pagekite server seems attractive.
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#132I really like the design of the site. Nice work.
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#133This looks like a slick expansion of the idea here https://github.com/progrium/localtunnel/ Will be sure to kick the tires with a side project or two.
Yep, was going to post about that too (progrium rocks), but looks like the site the project used for its redirects is down http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/localtunnel.com
The page http://localtunnel.com does not show up, but it works like a charm when you get your own localtunnel URL.
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#134Since this uses SSH, how do you deal with the fact that any user could login to the remote server? Is there a custom daemon running that implements the SSH protocol, or does the client use the real SSH daemon? If it's the latter, someone could easily get a command shell. In that case, there would have to be some sort of sandbox to make sure that user can't do anything dangerous. I'd love to hear how the creators deal with this - great product btw!
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#135When 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…
Absolutley. This is a non-obvious but simple idea executed well and the creator deserves to make buckets of money.
I feel that localtunnel was also executed quite well, is free and open source, and has been around for a while now:
https://github.com/progrium/localtunnel
Where are my buckets of money? Oh yeah, I don't care.
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#136The website looks really great, and I've had great success using localtunnel and I'm very happy with it. Kudos to the folks over at Twilio for opensourcing localtunnel.
Not to take anything away from Showoff, the execution looks near perfect.
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#137If you have a public facing server then this can be had for free: ssh -nNT -R 8080:localhost:3000 myserver.com Et voilà, myserver.com:8080 now points to localhost:3000.
It's a bit like saying: if you have a private server you can use: git push blah instead of using DropBox. (This doesn not invalidate your point; far from it, I'm just saying that because it's somewhat trivial for us geek doesn't mean it's not something that other folks would pay for.
What non-technical person runs a server on their laptop?
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#138Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
Usability and quickstarts/documentation ARE marketing.
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#139If you have a public facing server then this can be had for free: ssh -nNT -R 8080:localhost:3000 myserver.com Et voilà, myserver.com:8080 now points to localhost:3000.
And if you need a public facing server, teensy VPNs can be had for $5/mo.
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#140Awesome. 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…
I second the dark contrast point. My first reaction on the site was "omg, what can I do to put some color and some life here". I even tried playing with the bookmarks on the top right corner to see if they would light up the site.
It looks like something designed for 3D and film production. Such an interface has very little contrast and color so it doesn't interfere with the perceived color and intensity of the image.