I've tried this out and I could definitely see myself using it. Could use it as a form of build machine or even distribute some of my infra onto them maybe. I don't work with agents very much but still, this is neat and I hope it gets better!
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#272i tried this and it's pretty cool, that being said for my use case of spinning up many agents working on my app I'd need a way to specify the docker images that get started with each new VM i cannot find a way in the docs to start new VMs with a bootstrap script that starts a bunch of services for me and runs a specific docker image my use-case is that I want a full developer environment for every branch of my projec…
[exe.dev cofounder here] Thanks for the feedback! We do not support private registries yet but it is very much on our mind, it is one of the first things business customers ask for so we know we have to build it. We are also exploring alternatives for pre-configuring your VM. (Because we make lots of VMs and feel this too, so it is very much on our mind.) One is a sub-second VM "clone" feature, so you can configure a…
The clone idea sounds awesome! It’s kind of like what Devin does for setting up new machines for each task
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#273You have got to make a better website design. I'm a very curious person so was able to figure out what this was but you cannot expect all visitors of your website to be that way. Also, stop charging for SSO/OAuth2 integration. Seriously. There's a huge list of services that stupidly charge for SSO/OAuth integration at https://sso.tax , and this list needs to get smaller, not grow. SSO doesn't cost anything to impleme…
The only people who care about SSO are large enterprises. Coincidentally, large enterprises also are the only customers that make SAAS profitable. Every other plan is part of the sales funnel to the big enterprise contracts.
> The only people who care about SSO are large enterprises.
I can't tell if this is sarcasm or not. I'm going to assume that it is, in fact, sarcasm. Because this is definitely untrue in reality.
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#274Earlier quoted context omitted.
https://blog.exe.dev/ I am not sure. I even tried Google Chrome This site can’t provide a secure connection blog.exe.dev sent an invalid response. ERR_SSL_PROTOCOL_ERROR https://i.imgur.com/HOwb7g3.jpeg also tried mozilla firefox on desktop Secure Connection Failed An error occurred during a connection to blog.exe.dev. SSL received a record that exceeded the maximum permissible length. Error code: SSL_ERROR_RX_RECORD…
try another network. i often get SSL errors due to false positives in my internet provider's "virus protection"
Wow, spectrum is really terrible
For anyone else like me, you can read the article at
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#276> What is exe.dev?
> exe.dev is a subscription service that gives you virtual machines, with persistent disks, quickly and without fuss. These machines are immediately accessible over HTTPS, with sensible and secure defaults. You can share your web server as easily as you can share a Google Doc. With built-in optional authentication, so you can focus on your thing.
> Your VMs share CPU/RAM. Create as many VMs as you like with the resources you have.
Source: https://exe.dev/docs/what-is-exe
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Turns out the request is coming from localhost because it's being forwarded over SSH. Their HTTP proxy causes a new SSH connection to be made to the VM: Connection from 10.42.0.1 port 37456 on 10.42.1.75 port 22 rdomain "" debug1: Local version string SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_9.9 debug1: Remote protocol version 2.0, remote software version Go debug1: compat_banner: no match: Go Which then requests a local TCP connection, in t…
Also there's a funny little Easter egg within the SSH connection to exe.dev, if you look closely. I don't want to spoil it for anyone, but it was nice to see.
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#278You have got to make a better website design. I'm a very curious person so was able to figure out what this was but you cannot expect all visitors of your website to be that way. Also, stop charging for SSO/OAuth2 integration. Seriously. There's a huge list of services that stupidly charge for SSO/OAuth integration at https://sso.tax , and this list needs to get smaller, not grow. SSO doesn't cost anything to impleme…
[exe.dev co-founder here] Hi. Re: oauth2, the last product I built, Tailscale, only did auth by oauth2. I chose this because 1. businesses need it anyway, and 2. passwords are terrible.
But it was a choice that does not come for free. I dread a page of buttons for third-party services, and the control I give them over my life. I hate that I never know if I should log in with GitHub, or Google, and for a dozen services I have multiple accounts because I got lost in the miasma of oauth2.
Still, it was better than passwords!
But since the last product I built, the world has changed. We have passkeys now. Which are superior in every way for individuals using a third-party service. You get better UX. You get better privacy. It is a fundamentally better technology.
I did not list SSO under teams because I want to "tax" people. I did it because SSO only makes sense for businesses, where an administrator controls accounts, and can delete yours when necessary. There, oauth2 is the best technology we have. But for individuals, it is a dead technology. I am reluctant to make everyone's exe.dev experience worse for legacy tech.
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#279unlike 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…
You can’t host compute for anonymous users. I mean you can, but you won’t for long due to the abuse that will inevitably come with it. That you are responsible for. And anyway, it’s not always going to be free.
What are the abuse risks of compute versus vpn? Mullvad is doing it already. Their payment information doesn't need to be "anonymous". I have hosted websites while paying for the domain, vps hosting and all that it entails entirely with BTC, not once using payment information associated with me. But you know what was required of me even then? A damn email address!!