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Show HN: Turn a markdown document into an interactive tutorial
- herbst 10y agoDat fast scroll jacking.
- speps 10y ago500 then 404...
- y2jaj 10y agosame.
- danfromberlin 10y agoHi, This is Dan from stacktile, first of all, thanks for checking us out! I'm sorry if you hit an error, we're a victim of our own popularity at the moment. We're working to accommodate pretty huge the increase in traffic from HN.
- hbz 10y agoAn interactive guide to fork bombing
- pmontra 10y agoI'm getting 500 error [root]$ :(){ :|:& };: -bash: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable Hopefully that second line and bash don't hint at a command execution vulnerability.
- danfromberlin 10y agoHi, no.. it's just an attempt at humor.
- nathancahill 10y agoI'd get rid of it. Why would you add more confusion to your product? It's hard enough to grasp as a novel concept without adding misdirection.
- popey456963 10y agoNah, I really love it actually! It's a really good error page. I hope anyone who thinks about it for more than five seconds will realise it's a joke.
- mwambua 10y agoI like it... that and the 404 error: [root]$ ls moo ls: moo: No such file or directory
- roddux 10y agoThat's a forkbomb, if memory serves? haha
- emirozer 10y agoIt is quite obvious that its a joke, with the fork bomb and the response...
- BoudewijnE 10y ago> The Data Controller reserves the right to make changes to this privacy policy at any time by giving notice to its Users on this page. It is strongly recommended to check this page often. I laugh.
- danfromberlin 10y agoHi, Dan from stacktile here. thank you for pointing this out -- the above user is pointing out a provision in our Privacy Policy. Our privacy policy is very much a work in progress -- we're a small team that put this policy in place as a first attempt, although I know that's not a very good answer. I fully agree with you that that clause in particular is quite draconian. I have brought this to our team's attention and we will be reviewing it as soon as we can (A.K.A. as soon as we're done dealing with the huge influx of new users from HN)
- TeMPOraL 10y agoYeah, are we supposed to run a cron job that periodically downloads the page and diffs it with the previous version? Come to think of it, I smell a startup idea... Privacy Policy Monitoring as a Service...
- danfromberlin 10y agoI wholeheartedly invite you to create a workflow on stacktile.io that demonstrates how to do it! :-)
- akavel 10y agoBy the way, there are already services at least for automatic diffing: https://www.changedetection.com/ https://www.changedetection.com/ etc. (I don't know if this one is better than others, but this one has a memorable name; I have it pointed at one page, and get notifications from time to time, but never actually cared to dive in and check the diffs... :/ )
- diegorbaquero 10y agoGood idea, Not working though :(
- rickycook 10y agothat is one hell of a jump in pricing. free to 239 euro p/month
- joosters 10y agoThe real killer app would be the complete opposite, i.e. turning an interactive tutorial into a README file...
- danfromberlin 10y agoThanks! We're working on something kinda' like this.
- fiatjaf 10y agoMarkdown or HTML? From the example: 1. <a href="https://app.storj.io/#/signup" target="_blank">Sign up</a> for a Storj account.
- danfromberlin 10y agoWe allow html to be embedded into one of our workflows, but you can also stick to pure markdown.
- Vendan 10y agoTechnically, markdown can contain html, so that is pure markdown still.
- afshinmeh 10y agoIs this an email collecting app or what? I'm clicking on the button to see what does this app do and they it says signup and we will notify you later.
- goldhand 10y agoNo, they are "to popular" right now.
- danfromberlin 10y agoHi, Dan from stacktile.io we're giving people the option to sign up to be notified when we have a free slot, but you're not required to sign up to try us out. It's just that we have many more people coming to try us than we expected. Sorry about that!
- brudgers 10y agoJust yesterday, I received a straight to voicemail all from a company from whom I once purchased software in 2007. My guess is that I'm in their lead database for upgrades that is given to new hires in phone sales. It got me thinking about email collection -- it's one of my standard feedback items on "Show HN". Anyway, I thought for a moment about the fact that there is no company that I love so much that I want to receive periodic emails from it. Not even Taco and few companies do engagement emails as beautifully designed as Trello. There's a scale at which bulk email operations make sense. I don't think the "doing things that don't scale" is the right stage for optimizing. Usually, emails are another TODO item in the receiver's inbox. They're not solutions. My advice, focus on solutions. Good luck.
- spdustin 10y agoIf the browsing user selects one of the samples on the site (which is verified easily with a quick hash on the client side), why on earth are you processing it again? Load shouldn't be an issue here. Honestly, users shouldn't even be able to ruin your sales pipeline by interrupting your pitch. Why let us enter any markdown? It's an example, you have a few representative samples, just take their output and hard code it and move on. As it stands now, I probably won't remember to come back so see what this is all about, and waiting for an email isn't really going to increase the odds that I come back. Just some honest feedback for you. TL:DR: I was intrigued by the first page, put off by the unnecessary wait when you could've hard coded the response when a user chooses an existing sample.
- jordanwallwork 10y agoExactly what I thought. Crazy to be prompted to register an account when I'm just trying to run the demo
- pg_is_a_butt 10y agothe advertising geniuses behind it probably thinks it's crazy to offer a demo for any reason other than to directly get more accounts registered.
- danfromberlin 10y agoMaybe I can also share a bit more insight into what's actually going on behind the scenes. When a user on stacktile creates a workflow, we are also executing a linux container environment on their behalf. This container provides the interactive environment to run the code in the workflow, but it's also a resource (and operational cost) which need to limit at the moment.
- Turbots 10y agothis is not necessary for your pitch and adds unnecessary load and cost... During the pitch, you need to explain your users how it works (like you did in your comments), not ACTUALLY start up the containers... You can show the explicit startup of the containers when users REALLY want to dive deeper in your product. You're just adding more cost and load on your website because of this
- Freaky 10y agoThe markdown text input is borderline unreadable in Chrome on Windows 10: https://i.imgur.com/vTu2J34.png https://i.imgur.com/vTu2J34.png
- danfromberlin 10y agoThank you for the screenshot.
- nijiko 10y ago1. Clicked "try it now" for demo. 2. Went straight to a "give us your email" page. 3. Left and will never go back.
- danfromberlin 10y agoHi, Dan here again, some of our visitors will hit our waiting queue today. If it's any consolation, I can certainly appreciate the frustration some will experience due to this, but we're just bound by the reality of our wallet at the moment. We also mean no harm by inviting those in the queue to provide an email.
- twakefield 10y agoI would at least add a demo video or something to show how the product works. I had the same experience and was confused why the demo would require me to signup. At best, it came off as poor UX, at worst, a bit sleazy. At any rate, it's an interesting idea. I would like to see a demo without having to signup for something.
- brudgers 10y agoMy suggestion would be to simply tell people that the internet's hug has overloaded the servers, offer an apology, and let them know that you hope they will come back later. The problem is that asking for email suggests people should trust the website at a time when there is no basis for trust and many people have substantial experience to suggest not trusting.
- erjjones 10y ago#fail on the demo and then add the arrogant .. "We seem to be to popular at the moment ... give me your email"
- danfromberlin 10y agoSorry about the choice of wording. What we're trying to communicate is, "You're welcome to leave an email if you'd like to be notified." we certainly didn't mean it to come off as being arrogant
- lima 10y agoThe HN title is somewhat of an understatement... This is really cool. https://stacktile.io/org/ansible/workflows/670a1fda-3372-400d-99ea-d9e585ccdec5?activate_tour=1 https://stacktile.io/org/ansible/workflows/670a1fda-3372-400...
- nkjoep 10y agoThe usual scam, they ask for email and try to gather more leads. ``` Unfortunately, we are out of free slots at the moment. We're Sorry! If you would like to be notified as soon as we have a free slot available, we invite you to sign up. ``` I'm really disappointed.
- danfromberlin 10y agoHi, Dan from stacktile again, we've prepared a short screencast video for anyone who can't get a free slot but doesn't feel like signing up: https://vimeo.com/174582090 https://vimeo.com/174582090
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- afshinmeh 10y agoDamn Django.