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I was looking for exactly this service a few weeks ago and would be a paying customer, but I develop on Windows. A future market, if you're interested.

HerraBRE 16y ago
Check out http://pagekite.net/ http://pagekite.net/ , it's Python and it runs on Windows just fine. We are working on a user-friendly installer and GUI, but if you're a developer you don't need that. :-)
- gorm 16y ago
  +1 for this. Saw a talk on pagekite earlier this year and it looks very cool and a good alternative to this service.
- andrewheins 16y ago
  You sir, are a Godsend. Kudos to you.
- ChuckMcM 16y ago
  Hmm, I also think you need a new name. 'Showoff' says exactly what it does, lets you 'showoff' your work. What's a pagekite? (reminds of the 'mint' vs that unpronouncablely named finance site naming issue). I'm an ops guy, lets say I want to give access to my next generation product to a usability lab for feedback. Can you imagine what that whole experience would feel like? I'll want some reporting of when the site was used and what was done. I'll want full cookie transparency so that the user experience will be 'real' but not require the developers to do anything special to get there. I'll want to know that I can turn it off pretty much instantly if I think there is a problem. That is perhaps a product that is orthogonal to the 'put a demo page up' kind of thing though.
  - HerraBRE 16y ago
    Regarding the name, I actually think PageKite is an excellent name and we are lucky to have it. It's googlable, we got the .com for cheap, it's a strong trademark. If I draw you a picture of your site flying like a kite in the clouds, connected by a string to your laptop, you'll find the name is a perfect fit... :-) Admittedly, I do need to get that picture drawn. Regarding the technical side, you do get all those things. Some you get by collecting your own server logs, some (like cookie transparency and instant-off) you get through the nature of the system itself. But if focusing on the website demo market, then making things easier by adding reports etc. would probably make sense at some point. Thanks for your comments!
    - ChuckMcM 16y ago
      HerraBRE you need to internalize this: "Some you get by collecting your own server logs, ..." When I say 'internalize' I mean you need to shift your perspective mentally from 'techie' to 'customer.' Anything you can do for the customer, by default, you should do for the customer. A successful product starts "click here", "use now". Leave the 'collect your own logs' as a thing you can do if you want to, but not you have to. And don't get hung up on this exact feature request, it is a mindset for every single feature. You have no less than 10 comments in this single submission, and in seven of them you are explaining why someone who is a potential customer is wrong about what they are asking for. That is a pretty strong signal, and one you ignore at your peril.
      - HerraBRE 16y ago
        "You have no less than 10 comments in this single submission, and in seven of them you are explaining why someone who is a potential customer is wrong about what they are asking for." Really? I thought I was saying we were was working on all these things, that it was a work in progress, and I appreciated the feedback. I'm honestly quite confused that you got that out of my comments. I may have misunderstood your question here, I thought you were asking whether you could accomplish something using PageKite, but perhaps you were being more hypothetical about the desires and first impressions of a potential customer?
chug2k 15y ago
It worked for me on Windows. The only tough part is getting it to find your ssh-keys. I did this by running it inside git bash, which as a Windows user you might have anyway if you've installed msysgit. Of course cygwin would also probably work. ssh-keygen to make your keys, and then run your server and then show. I couldn't figure out how to get the -i command to work properly so it found your ssh keys, maybe I should try that again and see if you can do everything with PuTTYgen for a 'true' windows solution.

HerraBRE 16y ago

Check out http://pagekite.net/ http://pagekite.net/ , it's Python and it runs on Windows just fine. We are working on a user-friendly installer and GUI, but if you're a developer you don't need that. :-)

gorm 16y ago
+1 for this. Saw a talk on pagekite earlier this year and it looks very cool and a good alternative to this service.
andrewheins 16y ago
You sir, are a Godsend. Kudos to you.
ChuckMcM 16y ago
Hmm, I also think you need a new name. 'Showoff' says exactly what it does, lets you 'showoff' your work. What's a pagekite? (reminds of the 'mint' vs that unpronouncablely named finance site naming issue). I'm an ops guy, lets say I want to give access to my next generation product to a usability lab for feedback. Can you imagine what that whole experience would feel like? I'll want some reporting of when the site was used and what was done. I'll want full cookie transparency so that the user experience will be 'real' but not require the developers to do anything special to get there. I'll want to know that I can turn it off pretty much instantly if I think there is a problem. That is perhaps a product that is orthogonal to the 'put a demo page up' kind of thing though.
- HerraBRE 16y ago
  Regarding the name, I actually think PageKite is an excellent name and we are lucky to have it. It's googlable, we got the .com for cheap, it's a strong trademark. If I draw you a picture of your site flying like a kite in the clouds, connected by a string to your laptop, you'll find the name is a perfect fit... :-) Admittedly, I do need to get that picture drawn. Regarding the technical side, you do get all those things. Some you get by collecting your own server logs, some (like cookie transparency and instant-off) you get through the nature of the system itself. But if focusing on the website demo market, then making things easier by adding reports etc. would probably make sense at some point. Thanks for your comments!
  - ChuckMcM 16y ago
    HerraBRE you need to internalize this: "Some you get by collecting your own server logs, ..." When I say 'internalize' I mean you need to shift your perspective mentally from 'techie' to 'customer.' Anything you can do for the customer, by default, you should do for the customer. A successful product starts "click here", "use now". Leave the 'collect your own logs' as a thing you can do if you want to, but not you have to. And don't get hung up on this exact feature request, it is a mindset for every single feature. You have no less than 10 comments in this single submission, and in seven of them you are explaining why someone who is a potential customer is wrong about what they are asking for. That is a pretty strong signal, and one you ignore at your peril.
    - HerraBRE 16y ago
      "You have no less than 10 comments in this single submission, and in seven of them you are explaining why someone who is a potential customer is wrong about what they are asking for." Really? I thought I was saying we were was working on all these things, that it was a work in progress, and I appreciated the feedback. I'm honestly quite confused that you got that out of my comments. I may have misunderstood your question here, I thought you were asking whether you could accomplish something using PageKite, but perhaps you were being more hypothetical about the desires and first impressions of a potential customer?

chug2k 15y ago

It worked for me on Windows. The only tough part is getting it to find your ssh-keys. I did this by running it inside git bash, which as a Windows user you might have anyway if you've installed msysgit. Of course cygwin would also probably work. ssh-keygen to make your keys, and then run your server and then show. I couldn't figure out how to get the -i command to work properly so it found your ssh keys, maybe I should try that again and see if you can do everything with PuTTYgen for a 'true' windows solution.