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Re: Exe.dev

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Post by docmars »

notepad0x90 wrote: post #199

unlike others, i like the site and the initial prompt. Lost me at "verify email" though. Why get so creative, yet limit yourself to archaic "email". Why do *YOU* the provider need me to have an email or a phone? Look, mullvad can provide vpn services without email or all that nonsense. If you want people who will use ssh to order things, these are the same people that would get your service because you're not asking…

It isn't a free service -- only during the alpha you get access to an "Individual" account which would normally run $20/mo once the test period is over.

https://exe.dev/docs/pricing

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#202

Post by nebezb »

pkphilip wrote: post #171
crawshaw wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No I apologize for the confusion (exe.dev person here). What is different about this service is you get dedicated resources that you share between your VMs. The initial allocation is conservative, we want to give people more (or drop the price). The goal is to reduce the marginal cost of creating a VM to zero. Instead of installing a container manager or using Unix users, just make another VM. (I will get a better ve…

You guys really need to work on simplifying your communication on your website. I was also very confused about how the 8GB - whether it is per VM, shared etc.

I thought it was pretty clear from their documentation. And it solves an issue I have. They’ve found a customer in me.

Re: Exe.dev

#203

Post by jeremyjh »

jedimastert wrote: post #145
sccxy wrote: 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.

The exact text on mobile is > ssh exe.dev > The disk persists. You have sudo. I've seen enough of these kinds of services in my lifetime that I also immediately knew what it was, for example sdf.org, which is one of the OG services, and various "tilde" services like tilde.town.

I thought the same, but it’s not quite like either of those things. It has their same benefits but way more flexibility with its VM model. It offers auth, and will forward most ports for developer access.

All this was totally lost on me from looking at the website. “I already have tilde and sdf, I don’t need this.”

If I hadn’t looked into the comments I would still think that.

Re: Exe.dev

#204

Post by shenberg »

eleventyseven wrote: post #196
sccxy wrote: 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.

I was confused too. I first thought I should open up my terminal and just enter `ssh dev.exe` and this would be some kind of ssh-based interface? Honestly my first thought is that it would be one of those cool dev hack / art projects like the old starwars traceroute to 216.81.59.173 It didn't read as a company with products at all to me from the front page. Just a cryptic " The disk persists. You have sudo." with lin…

ssh exe.dev works

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#205

Post by jeremyjh »

ricardobeat wrote: post #170

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…

Those limits make it pretty clear it’s not really meant for hosting a production app. It’s for sharing something you’ve developed with friends/colleagues, or maybe a low traffic webhook handler for some personal thing. I made an Alexa skill for my kids once and it is perfect for that kind of project.

Re: Exe.dev

#207

Post by crawshaw »

singpolyma3 wrote: post #194
crawshaw wrote: post #128

Earlier quoted context omitted.

[exe.dev co-founder here] You can make it public! Our TLS proxy supports it, and supports CNAME rules (plus a top-level trick) to let you put a domain name on it. To make the HTTP server on port 8000 of your VM public run: ssh exe.dev share set-public

Any plans to support non web stuff?

For non-web stuff you will need a static IP. We plan to support that in the near future: https://github.com/boldsoftware/exe.dev/issues/6

Re: Exe.dev

#208

Post by pxx »

WhyNotHugo wrote: post #197
codingdave wrote: post #86

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…

The website has a huge `ssh exe.dev`, so I'd expect that running that works, but: SSH keys are required to access exe.dev. Why put an SSH command in a huge banner if I have to go around and register before I can use it anyway?

you don't need to register the key. just have some sort of key.

Re: Exe.dev

#209

Post by pxx »

lnenad wrote: post #186
panxyh wrote: post #174

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

tbh maybe this service doesn't want you as a customer if you can't figure this out. it seems like you'd be an above-average support burden

Re: Exe.dev

#210

Post by dizzled »

dizzled wrote: post #178

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Also curious about Shelley, their LLM agent. Turns out it makes requests to a proxy for https://fireworks.ai APIs via http://169.254.169.254/gateway/llm, such as:

    POST /gateway/llm/_/gateway/fireworks/inference/v1/chat/completions HTTP/1.1
    Host: 169.254.169.254
    User-Agent: Go-http-client/1.1
    Content-Length: 491 
    Accept: application/json
    Authorization: Bearer implicit
    Content-Type: application/json
    Accept-Encoding: gzip

    {"model":"accounts/fireworks/models/qwen3-coder-480b-a35b-instruct","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"Generate a short, descriptive slug (2-6 words, lowercase, hyphen-separated) for a conversation that starts with this user message:\n\nhello\n\nThe slug should:\n- Be concise and descriptive\n- Use only lowercase letters, numbers, and hyphens\n- Capture the main topic or intent\n- Be suitable as a filename or URL path\n\nRespond with only the slug, nothing else."}],"max_tokens":8192}
And, perhaps of more interest, actual conversations which start with the system prompt:

    POST /gateway/llm/_/gateway/fireworks/inference/v1/chat/completions HTTP/1.1
    Host: 169.254.169.254
    User-Agent: Go-http-client/1.1
    Content-Length: 10513
    Accept: application/json
    Authorization: Bearer implicit
    Content-Type: application/json
    Accept-Encoding: gzip
    
    {"model":"accounts/fireworks/models/qwen3-coder-480b-a35b-instruct","messages":[{"role":"system","content":"You are Shelley, a coding agent and assistant. You are an experienced software engineer and architect. You communicate with brevity.\n\nYou have access to a variety of tools to get your job done. Be persistent and creative.\n\n
    ...
Truncated as it's huge, but here's a copy of the request data: https://victory-george.exe.xyz. Interesting to see the range of tools offered by the agent.
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