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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.
by sccxy 9mo 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.
- anttiharju 9mo agoI can see > ssh exe.dev > The disk persists. You have sudo. on mobile
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- sccxy 9mo agoIt 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.
- CiaranMcNulty 9mo agoIt’s not a loading blink, it’s just some text telling you what the service is
- 867-5309 9mo agoit's a cursor ready blink I think knowing what the ssh command does is a pretty low bar for this platform
- Kiro 9mo agoHyperbole 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.
- machinationu 9mo agopricing information and what it does/how it works is not marketing fluff
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- ErneX 9mo agoI thought it was a web game.
- Jolter 9mo agoIt is not ”to the point”.
- _init_wasfine 9mo agoAgreed. Target audience will understand instantly
- deanc 9mo agoI 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.
- sznio 9mo agoYeah. 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.
- x-complexity 9mo agoTheir pricing page says that it's currently a free trial. https://exe.dev/docs/pricing https://exe.dev/docs/pricing
- conductr 9mo agoThat link isn’t really easy to find from the home page is a large part of the gripe here. You have to click About in the footer, remain curious enough to click All Docs on that page (which Pricing isn’t usually a part of “docs”), then all you get is a Pricing paragraph that says “Plan options for individuals, teams, and enterprises.” Not very helpful until you realize the heading text “Pricing” is a plain colored link to this pricing page with more info. The whole UX of this site is garbage and what has fostered so many gripes here.
- codingdave 9mo agoNot 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.
- ricardobeat 9mo agoIt'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.
- virgil_disgr4ce 9mo agowhy do we need to click anything? Why wouldn't the relevant information be there in the initial view?
- ascii0eks84 9mo agoGatekeeping mechanism. This effectively filters useless traffic and trash contacts.
- conductr 9mo agoYou’re right that it probably filtered out a lot of traffic. Traffic that may have converted to users if they didn’t meet such a useless landing page
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- albedoa 9mo agoYou truly, honestly believe that to be the real problem? Come on. You don't need to do whatever this is.
- smallnix 9mo agoAgree, I finally found information via Homepage -> blog -> docs -> "all docs" button: https://exe.dev/docs/list https://exe.dev/docs/list Which has an about and pricing etc. That is very counterintuitive to just find out what this is.
- fredsted 9mo agoIt'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.
- lnenad 9mo ago> 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.
- integralid 9mo ago"ssh exe.dev" is exactly the Linux command you would use to connect there via ssh. And it's stylized like command prompt.
- flexagoon 9mo agoThe question wasn't "how to ssh into a server", it was "how did you figure out what it it from looking at the website"
- codezero 9mo agoHow to ssh into a server isn’t a question, it’s a command.
- codezero 9mo agoBeing pedantic, I meant statement not command.
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- doublerabbit 9mo ago"exe.dev is a subscription service that gives you virtual machines, with persistent disks, quickly and without fuss." scroll down and hit the "about" link. I do agree though the landing page could be more resourceful. I'm not going to SSH to a random server.
- throawayonthe 9mo agoi'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
- derrida 9mo agoIt would be funny if it was literally the best website I've seen in like a year... ... which it is.
- lfkdev 9mo agoCome on guys, it literally says 'ssh exe.dev'
- ilvez 9mo agoYeah, and it really is not I would want to do, just like diving into unknown water that sparkles weird.. It's an instinct, can get past it but to get more info about the service... nah.
- jedimastert 9mo agoThe 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.
- jeremyjh 9mo agoI thought the same, but it’s not quite like either of those things. It has their same benefits but way more flexibility with its VM model. It offers auth, and will forward most ports for developer access. All this was totally lost on me from looking at the website. “I already have tilde and sdf, I don’t need this.” If I hadn’t looked into the comments I would still think that.
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- eddd-ddde 9mo agoDid you try clicking one link into "about" and reading one paragraph of text?
- Havoc 9mo agoThat as my first thought too. Landing page may as well be an empty page
- eleventyseven 9mo agoI was confused too. I first thought I should open up my terminal and just enter `ssh dev.exe` and this would be some kind of ssh-based interface? Honestly my first thought is that it would be one of those cool dev hack / art projects like the old starwars traceroute to 216.81.59.173 It didn't read as a company with products at all to me from the front page. Just a cryptic " The disk persists. You have sudo." with links to "Login" and "About * Blog * Discord" --- no pricing link, which made me think it was a weird hobby / art.
- shenberg 9mo agossh exe.dev works
- kelvich 9mo agoThis thread seems to reflect how the HN audience has shifted — less commenters know what `ssh example.com` does and more commenters concerned about privacy policy.
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