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Launch any browser/OS right from your desktop with Sauce for Mac

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Re: Launch any browser/OS right from your desktop with Sauce for Mac

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Post by andrewfelix »

beatpanda wrote: post #29
beatpanda wrote: post #21

-1 for forcing me to use the Mac App Store — the copy on the landing page you sent me to made it sound like there was a way to download it directly. Before I could download it I was presented with multiple alerts and pages of bullshit regarding my Apple ID and the App Store terms of service. Not a good experience. -1 for not having a link to create a new account from the first dialogue box in the app. I can either lo…

Folks, this website is not called "internet love fest". Please stop downvoting me for giving honest and complete feedback of my experience with the app.

I didn't up-vote your OP, but I up-voted this. I hate that dissenting opinions often get relegated to the bottom of the comment list.

Re: Launch any browser/OS right from your desktop with Sauce for Mac

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Post by admc »

highwind wrote: post #14
kyrra wrote: post #6

I was a bit worried about how this would work on a company intranet. I know my IT network security people are pretty paranoid about bridge networks and all that. Looking at Sauce Connect[1], they recommend to put the service on a dedicated machine on your intranet that you can zone off so it only has access to the parts of the network you want to allow. Seems like a decent solution to allow a running a cloud service…

Still. I feel like the price is way too much. The recommended plan is $149/month. For the long run, buying a decent machine and running your own virtual machines would be cheaper. Someone prove me wrong.

Greetings, we just made some changes, ran the tests and deployed an update to the Sauce for Mac launch page -- it should now be clear that you can use the desktop app to your heart's content for $12/mo. http://saucelabs.com/mac

Thanks for all the great feedback everyone.

Re: Launch any browser/OS right from your desktop with Sauce for Mac

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Post by jlipps »

beatpanda wrote: post #29
beatpanda wrote: post #21

-1 for forcing me to use the Mac App Store — the copy on the landing page you sent me to made it sound like there was a way to download it directly. Before I could download it I was presented with multiple alerts and pages of bullshit regarding my Apple ID and the App Store terms of service. Not a good experience. -1 for not having a link to create a new account from the first dialogue box in the app. I can either lo…

Folks, this website is not called "internet love fest". Please stop downvoting me for giving honest and complete feedback of my experience with the app.

I work at Sauce and I upvoted your comment because I think it's great feedback.

But "internet love fest news" sounds like a great Show HN.

Re: Launch any browser/OS right from your desktop with Sauce for Mac

#34

Post by admc »

beatpanda wrote: post #21

-1 for forcing me to use the Mac App Store — the copy on the landing page you sent me to made it sound like there was a way to download it directly. Before I could download it I was presented with multiple alerts and pages of bullshit regarding my Apple ID and the App Store terms of service. Not a good experience. -1 for not having a link to create a new account from the first dialogue box in the app. I can either lo…

Sauce for Mac is my project, and I totally appreciate the feedback. Fixes for all those comments are going directly into the queue.

FWIW - it's an open source project and you can always directly get the latest download from github here: https://github.com/saucelabs/sauce-for-mac/downloads

We realize the signup flow is a nightmare, the rules of the app store are not nice :-(

Re: Launch any browser/OS right from your desktop with Sauce for Mac

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Post by hugs »

ek wrote: post #30

Sauce does Mac OS X virtualization using some patches Alexander Graf and René Rebe helped them bring up to date, which they've released (see http://sauceio.com/index.php/2012/08/apple-sauce-android-sau... ). I tried hacking their patches into a recent snapshot of the KVM tree but there were some issues. I sort of wonder if anyone else has managed to get their code working, because it would be a neat hack if so.

Hi, author of that blog post here. I meant to follow up with a more detailed tutorial on how to specifically spin up a Mac VM using those patches. Sorry I haven't done that yet. :-(

Re: Launch any browser/OS right from your desktop with Sauce for Mac

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Post by admc »

jakozaur wrote: post #36

Good concept, but prefer one of their competitors: https://browserling.com/ + Web based + No account needed to try it + Tunnels also available + Great blog from one of the founders catonmat.com

+ Our browser based testing service is also available at http://saucelabs.com

+ We have an accountless version on the front page, followed by free and open source accounts.

+We have a very secure and mature tunneling system called Sauce Connect: http://www.saucelabs.com/docs/connect

Five minutes of research would have been helpful.

Re: Launch any browser/OS right from your desktop with Sauce for Mac

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Post by admc »

ommunist wrote: post #15

Hmmm.... A very spicy plan is so spicy that it is better worth investing into own VM testing park. Mechanical Turks are also here.

Greetings, we updated the page at http://saucelabs.com/mac to clarify the fact that you get unlimited usage of our VM's for $12 a month. Sorry for the confusion, I think it's a fair and reasonable price.

Re: Launch any browser/OS right from your desktop with Sauce for Mac

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Post by jakozaur »

admc wrote: post #37
jakozaur wrote: post #36

Good concept, but prefer one of their competitors: https://browserling.com/ + Web based + No account needed to try it + Tunnels also available + Great blog from one of the founders catonmat.com

+ Our browser based testing service is also available at http://saucelabs.com + We have an accountless version on the front page, followed by free and open source accounts. +We have a very secure and mature tunneling system called Sauce Connect: http://www.saucelabs.com/docs/connect Five minutes of research would have been helpful.

My bad. I totally agree with you.

Hmm, you might improve conversion if you put trial button above the fold. Also pre-spinning an instance for demo would be truly awesome.

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