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Re: Exe.dev

#181

I really like the concept, the persistence (with backups!), pre-installed agents, and how easy it is to go from experiment to a live server. The downsides: - usage-based pricing would be nice, $20/month is pretty steep to start, but also no room to scale up? - 100GB/month is only 300k views for a small-ish page or API, 10k req/day is a tiny amount of traffic. Can't make anything public with that. Even the smallest se…

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Re: Exe.dev

#182

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not a mobile issue. I am on desktop and had no idea what this service was because nothing on the initial UI explained what we were looking at. I went and double-checked when people here were talking about pricing and VMs. From the home page, I figured it was some text-based game or experiment and closed the page. It looks like some people who work there are watching this thread, so to them I say: You have got to expl…

It's odd to see how people are not accustomed to plain websites anymore. You click the 'About' link in the footer, and get a direct explanation of what it is, pricing and the entire documentation.

why do we need to click anything? Why wouldn't the relevant information be there in the initial view?

Re: Exe.dev

#183
post #59

i got to try exe a while back and i have to say, the "Login with exe" [1] is probably the most magic thing i've seen since tailscale :) [1] https://exe.dev/docs/login-with-exe

The problem without having consent is that it's easy to track who is using your service. Because there's no consent, they can redirect you to login and back, and grab your identity, without you doing anything other than loading the page.

Re: Exe.dev

#184

In which country are the VMs hosted? Do you have a warrant canary? Where's the AUP and how much peeking into customer VMs and storage do you do to enforce it?

They terminate TLS. It seems like you wouldn’t want to use this service even if all those questions were answered to your satisfaction.

Re: Exe.dev

#186
post #174
post #153

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's my point, the home/landing page tells you nothing other than "try to ssh into this van"

All a malicious website has to do to be convincing is to have a more conventional landing page then? The disk and sudo mentioned are good enough clues, then you have the about .

Where did I say that, that wasn't a topic I just commented on the *entirety* of the content on the landing page.

> The disk and sudo mentioned are good enough clues

I mean, you do you and let's agree to disagree about a good landing page UX.

Re: Exe.dev

#188
post #64

That 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.

That as my first thought too. Landing page may as well be an empty page

Re: Exe.dev

#189
Just setup an account and started a VM, but it's hanging when trying to access it while waiting on the public key response. Web based terminal not loading either. Guessing the site is getting the hug-of-death from HN users?

Re: Exe.dev

#190
very cool idea and concept :)

some feedback:

No matter what i do, i can't ssh into VM that i created Local terminal; always timeout built in terminal; SSH handshake failed: ssh: handshake failed: EOF

shelley agent seems to be install, but it always shows isn't running.

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