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StackVM Demo Video #2: User login system, chat and sharing of virtual machines.

53 points by pkrumins 16y ago

icode 16y ago
I already understood your service last time. Now just give me those damn machines :)
- pkrumins 16y ago
  Soon!
d0m 16y ago
Pretty cool stuff, pretty bad video.
- pkrumins 16y ago
  Bad video. :(
luu 16y ago
Argh! At the end of the video, he says "if you wish to try an early demo of stackvm, just visit stackvm.com", but there's no demo available -- the website says "In a few months, we'll start rolling out a free private demo. Sign up below and we'll send you an invite code when we're ready to launch." I suppose the statement in the video technically correct. :-)
- pkrumins 16y ago
  Oops, I wanted to say "If you wish to try an early demo of stackvm in a few months, visit stackvm.com to sign up." :)
  - luu 16y ago
    Oh well. I'm only griping because it looks really neat, and I want to try it out. How come you don't want people playing with the current stackvm? Is it because you're going to add a lot of features, and you expect people to be disappointed by the current feature set, because it's not currently stable, or because of something completely different?
    - pkrumins 16y ago
      It's because we don't have that much hardware. But you can try to get it running on your own. If you pull my current 'chat' stackvm branch [1], it's the one we used in the 2nd demo. You'd need qemu, node.js and a few node.js libraries. [1] http://github.com/pkrumins/stackvm/commit/162bca6eba35db815f270f4d7e136ae5f374422f http://github.com/pkrumins/stackvm/commit/162bca6eba35db815f...
      - luu 16y ago
        Very cool. Thanks!
    - substack 16y ago
      Not at all! The reason we haven't rolled out our demo yet is because hosting virtual machines takes a lot of server power to do. All of our code is up on github, so anybody can give it a spin for themselves, provided they can get it all running. http://github.com/substack/stackvm http://github.com/substack/stackvm http://github.com/pkrumins/stackvm http://github.com/pkrumins/stackvm
lkozma 16y ago
Personally I don't find these new features as exciting as the first ones. It is very much possible that I miss some use cases so take my opinion with a grain of salt. I think all interface elements could done in plain HTML, a "YouTube for virtual machines" with create, embed, and simple controls would be both useful and understandable. I find the chat and drag/drop a bit of a duplicated effort and it is anyway orthogonal to the main functionality. With all that, best of luck with your next iterations and looking forward to trying it out.
- pkrumins 16y ago
  Replies by paragraph: 1: These are pretty important features. Suppose you want to share a VM with your collegue and ask him for help. So you invite him to StackVM and share a VM with him. 2: It's all plain HTML already. Not sure what you mean. 3: Thank you!
  - lkozma 16y ago
    Ok, it is not obvious from the video but it seemed that the chat functionality is built into your system and it seems like some JavaScript-based GUI similar to Meebo. It might be easier to let people copy/paste and send a link to each other via whatever chat they are already using. Implementing a chat system seems like a distraction here. Again, I can only speculate about the actual system, so maybe there's no point for me to suggest features until I can actually try out a first version.
    - pkrumins 16y ago
      Oh, it actually is JavaScript. But I still don't understand why it should be plain HTML?

53 points by pkrumins 16y ago

icode 16y ago

I already understood your service last time. Now just give me those damn machines :)

pkrumins 16y ago
Soon!

d0m 16y ago

Pretty cool stuff, pretty bad video.

pkrumins 16y ago
Bad video. :(

luu 16y ago

Argh! At the end of the video, he says "if you wish to try an early demo of stackvm, just visit stackvm.com", but there's no demo available -- the website says "In a few months, we'll start rolling out a free private demo. Sign up below and we'll send you an invite code when we're ready to launch." I suppose the statement in the video technically correct. :-)

pkrumins 16y ago
Oops, I wanted to say "If you wish to try an early demo of stackvm in a few months, visit stackvm.com to sign up." :)
- luu 16y ago
  Oh well. I'm only griping because it looks really neat, and I want to try it out. How come you don't want people playing with the current stackvm? Is it because you're going to add a lot of features, and you expect people to be disappointed by the current feature set, because it's not currently stable, or because of something completely different?
  - pkrumins 16y ago
    It's because we don't have that much hardware. But you can try to get it running on your own. If you pull my current 'chat' stackvm branch [1], it's the one we used in the 2nd demo. You'd need qemu, node.js and a few node.js libraries. [1] http://github.com/pkrumins/stackvm/commit/162bca6eba35db815f270f4d7e136ae5f374422f http://github.com/pkrumins/stackvm/commit/162bca6eba35db815f...
    - luu 16y ago
      Very cool. Thanks!
  - substack 16y ago
    Not at all! The reason we haven't rolled out our demo yet is because hosting virtual machines takes a lot of server power to do. All of our code is up on github, so anybody can give it a spin for themselves, provided they can get it all running. http://github.com/substack/stackvm http://github.com/substack/stackvm http://github.com/pkrumins/stackvm http://github.com/pkrumins/stackvm

lkozma 16y ago

Personally I don't find these new features as exciting as the first ones. It is very much possible that I miss some use cases so take my opinion with a grain of salt. I think all interface elements could done in plain HTML, a "YouTube for virtual machines" with create, embed, and simple controls would be both useful and understandable. I find the chat and drag/drop a bit of a duplicated effort and it is anyway orthogonal to the main functionality. With all that, best of luck with your next iterations and looking forward to trying it out.

pkrumins 16y ago
Replies by paragraph: 1: These are pretty important features. Suppose you want to share a VM with your collegue and ask him for help. So you invite him to StackVM and share a VM with him. 2: It's all plain HTML already. Not sure what you mean. 3: Thank you!
- lkozma 16y ago
  Ok, it is not obvious from the video but it seemed that the chat functionality is built into your system and it seems like some JavaScript-based GUI similar to Meebo. It might be easier to let people copy/paste and send a link to each other via whatever chat they are already using. Implementing a chat system seems like a distraction here. Again, I can only speculate about the actual system, so maybe there's no point for me to suggest features until I can actually try out a first version.
  - pkrumins 16y ago
    Oh, it actually is JavaScript. But I still don't understand why it should be plain HTML?