Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Exe.dev

exe.dev

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

311–316 of 316 posts

Re: Exe.dev

#311

Post by ricardobeat »

canadiantim wrote: post #266
ricardobeat wrote: post #165

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Even the 'About' page doesn't have much information either though All the About page contains is: > 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 yo…

As (probably?) their target audience, this is very clear to me. It’s a service to create persistent VMs and ssh into them. What’s missing?

Granted, navigation on mobile could be better – the “All docs” breadcrumb is the only way to find the pricing and rest of the docs. On desktop it is clearer.

Re: Exe.dev

#312

Post by pwdisswordfishy »

jeremyjh wrote: post #205
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.

$240/yr is not "perfect" for a toy/hobby project.

Re: Exe.dev

#313

Post by latchkey »

nebezb wrote: post #202
pkphilip wrote: post #171

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

What's the issue?

Re: Exe.dev

#314

Post by lane776 »

docmars wrote: post #292
notepad0x90 wrote: post #281

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, it should be paid of course. Matter of fact, please charge me more for the privilege of not being asked email,phone, credit cards. Just take my money, and feel free to take whatever steps you think are needed to make sure abuse isn't taking places. I champion requiring a "deposit" where if abuse took place the user would forfeit it. But, my original comment is strictly about email. Even if you asked for a govern…

I think that leaves: how would you prefer to recover your account if you lost access?

[dead]

Re: Exe.dev

#315

Post by marcusestes »

crawshaw wrote: post #278
ethin wrote: post #269

You 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 service…

Great answer, thanks for following up with your reasoning.

Re: Exe.dev

#316

Post by Hetzner_OL »

Imustaskforhelp wrote: post #109

Awesome project which I first thought might have something to do with microsft .exe format but not that big of a deal and I find this project really cool and I had thought about similar project like these so kudos that you built something like this! I mean it and I wish the best of luck for the project That being said, I tried to look at it for asap golang project deployments and I am the creator of https://spocklet-…

Hi there u/Imustaskforhelp - Thanks for the holiday greetings! I hope you also had a good Christmas. I am not a part of the abuse team here at Hetzner, and unfortunately therefore cannot make a decision either way. I suggest that you write directly to our support team/abuse team and describe your intended use case in as much detail as possible. They may have some follow-up questions for you and will be able to give you a clear yes/no answer. --Katie
Post reply on HN