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Peteris Krumins: How I went to Silicon Valley and raised $55,000 for Browserling
- mcantelon 15y agoCongrats... nice to see some real hackers get a leg up!
- pkrumins 15y agoThank you!
- west 15y agoNice work! A "check on the spot" definitely helps validate the idea.
- pkrumins 15y agoIt sure does!
- rayboyd 15y agoGreat story and best of luck to you guys going forward. This is a very useful tool. I find myself using it more and more lately when I need a quick test spin in the explorers.
- pkrumins 15y agoAwesome that you like it!
- lanstein 15y agoI'm sorry I was unable to recruit you to Splunk back in the day, but good luck with Browserling!
- pkrumins 15y agoThanks. :)
- scottkrager 15y ago"Success, I was known in the Silicon Valley!" Good read. You can feel the passion jumping out of the post.
- pkrumins 15y agoAwww yeah!
- cal5k 15y agoAre you a US citizen, or did you have to sort out work visas to make it happen?
- pkrumins 15y agoWent on a B1 visa "to raise investment for StackVM", which took 15 minutes to get.
- loevborg 15y agoAs a fellow EU citizen, I'm interested in this. Could you elaborate? Are you able to found or work at a start up in the U.S. with only a temporary visa?
- endijs 15y agoCongrats Peteris! Prieks, ka kādam izdodas! Veiksmes! :)
- pkrumins 15y agoPaldies! :)
- orky56 15y agoCongrats! Adam Rifkin can really make things happen. Definitely worth meeting and knowing him.
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- pkrumins 15y ago<3 Adam Rifkin
- david927 15y agoI knew of each of you separately and have long thought you are brilliant. (How YC passed on you I'll never know.) I'm really happy to hear you're funded and going. Best of luck!
- pkrumins 15y agoThank you sir!
- derwiki 15y agoMiss for YC, big win for the Hackers and Founders incubator. Browserling was the start up I was most excited about on Not-a-Demo Day, in part because all of their business cards were hand drawn and ripped from sheets of paper and their browser logo cutouts were made from cereal boxes.
- pkrumins 15y ago<3 Jonathan and Laura
- dshankar 15y agoIf I had money, I'd invest in you guys. Congrats on the funding!
- pkrumins 15y agoYou better save some up for when we raise the next round! :)
- changelog 15y agoHis co-founder is SubStack, the same guy from yesterdays Browserify article: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2805195 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2805195
- bprater 15y agoCheck out their startup: http://browserling.com/ http://browserling.com/ It allows you to not just get a screenshot of the site you are working on in a variety of browsers, but you can actually navigate the site, click on links, enter text, etc. Impressive! For designers/developers who need big coverage on browsers, I suspect they are going to do strong business. I think the $20 pricing might be a bit high, but the 5 minutes free should help a bunch of folks.
- pkrumins 15y agoYeah, the browsers run on Windowses and we stream the desktop to the browser! $20 also gets you tunnels, so you can tunnel localhost or local network to Browserling. Not available in the free plans!
- bprater 15y agoOOh. That's sweet. You need, need, need to make that clear. Being able to local dev and then share that with clients or customers is pretty huge. Keep testing your pricing model. Don't get locked in this early. I suspect that $15 might be the price point where it's a no-brainer for a certain group of dev/designers.
- pkrumins 15y agoWill do that. I'll redesign the pricing page altogether and make it obvious what's what.
- e1ven 15y agoWhat are you using for the streaming?
- pkrumins 15y agoVNC + node-rfb + node-binary + node-png + dnode + browserify http://github.com/pkrumins/node-rfb http://github.com/pkrumins/node-rfb http://github.com/substack/node-binary http://github.com/substack/node-binary http://github.com/pkrumins/node-png http://github.com/pkrumins/node-png http://github.com/substack/dnode http://github.com/substack/dnode http://github.com/substack/node-browserify http://github.com/substack/node-browserify
- aashay 15y agoBrowserling is some seriously impressive work. Congrats and thank you for all the Node.JS open-source work too!
- pkrumins 15y agoYou're welcome!
- dayjah 15y agoI see tunnels as a key feature, but you know this - I've been talking about tunnels on browserling for ages :) Glad you raised money and very happy that the H&F family made it happen for you. Looking forward to you being back in the Bay Area.
- pkrumins 15y agoI'll announce tunnels in my next blog post! They are already live (the ssh icon on the right, when you use Browserling) but I haven't announced them anywhere, so almost no one knows about them! See you soon in the Bay Area!
- jackfoxy 15y agoCongrats Peteris and James! I've had a lot of fun watching the progress of Browserling through interacting with it. And congrats to Jonathan and Laura too!
- pkrumins 15y agoJonathan and Laura took us to dinners when we were almost out of money and hungry! They are truly the kindest people I have ever met.
- massarog 15y agoI really love your service, however, I'm not a fan of the design (seems cartoonish). Was this just the design aspect you were going for or are you seeking a redesign in the near future?
- pkrumins 15y agoWe like the design! We're not looking for a redesign.
- dweekly 15y agoThese guys were literally the perfect example of the mythical "starving entrepreneurs" who walk into your office with a brilliant idea. I had to make sure they could eat! :)
- daniel-cussen 15y agoThe treehouse in the bg is a nice touch.
- thedeuce 15y agothe monthly cost seems high for how much you can just buy windows and run this crap yourself... and that way you dont have to worry about the security/bandwidth and a slew of other issues that probably come up
- bluehat 15y agoGood job guys, and remember, if you're ever hungry, come back to Treehouse for a meal. -Katy