Comment by sccxy
7 hours ago
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.
7 hours ago
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.
It's kind of funny our experiences are so diffent. I almost immediately surmised it's some sort of on the fly generated vm you can access via a ssh jumpserver. Which it is! It's actually really neat. It's quite obvious that the authors want us to just ssh into it and try it out first.
Yep, with no privacy policy published.
Exactly.
> I almost immediately surmised it's some sort of on the fly generated vm you can access via a ssh jumpserver
How? It just says `ssh exe.dev`. Unless you are clairvoyant.
"ssh exe.dev" is exactly the Linux command you would use to connect there via ssh. And it's stylized like command prompt.
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You are not the target audience if "how" was not apparent to you
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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 explain what this is, not just say "the disk persists..." and expect people to dig deeper. Most aren't that curious.
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.
Agree, I finally found information via
Homepage -> blog -> docs -> "all docs" button:
https://exe.dev/docs/list
Which has an about and pricing etc.
That is very counterintuitive to just find out what this is.
I wouldn’t go that far but some link to pricing and documentation would be useful. I have absolutely no idea what the offering is here without those pieces of info.
Their pricing page says that it's currently a free trial.
https://exe.dev/docs/pricing
Yeah. I managed to backtrack my way to the pricing through the about page.
It's really annoying when you're interested in a product but can't find a price.
I can see
> ssh exe.dev
> The disk persists. You have sudo.
on mobile
It is showing non-stop loading blink but nothing happens.
And cannot open keyboard if that is needed. It is like big CTA but does not do anything.
Very strange landing page for maybe cool product.
It’s not a loading blink, it’s just some text telling you what the service is
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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'm not sure what you mean; the demo runs with the ssh command in the centre, there's an 'about' link at the bottom, and that links to a docs index
it's fiine i think
It would be funny if it was literally the best website I've seen in like a year...
... which it is.
Hyperbole much? I'm on mobile and think it's great. I wish more websites were like this. Just straight to the point instead of all the regular marketing fluff you need to decipher.
pricing information and what it does/how it works is not marketing fluff
I thought it was a web game.
It is not ”to the point”.
Come on guys, it literally says 'ssh exe.dev'