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by edunteman 7y ago
This is a harder one because of Apple's death grip on their OS and ecosystem. I'm wary to get too deep into it because multiple illegal cloud emulators have been taken down and sued. I'd need to work out a licensing agreement
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by edunteman 7y ago
Millstone made an excellent point. I'm currently doing a Bring Your Own License model, which complies with your current Adobe license. Email me at erik@booste.io - I can have an Ubuntu version packaged up for you within a week.
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by edunteman 7y ago
Exactly. The tech is nothing new. I'm moreso consumerizing the Citrix tech, which has historically been enterprise-focused. It's an amazing tech and just needs to be packaged up in a non-intimidating, non-intrusive way for laymen
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by edunteman 7y ago
This is great validation, thank you :) I've caught wind of Suhail already and am actually really excited to see what he does with it. In fact, I hope to meet with him soon. If Mighty and Booste help consumers shift their hardware to th
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by edunteman 7y ago
It's a direction I've considered (bundling and distributing licenses in a compliant way), but for the next year I'd rather build out the tech and UX, with a simple "Bring Your Own License" approach.
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by edunteman 7y ago
Great question! Workspaces is my most direct competitor, and the current product is exactly that - a cloud based desktop. Booste is aiming to be more layman-friendly, whereas workspaces is more IT-admin focused, from my experience. The visi
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by edunteman 7y ago
Some engineers have told me they'd like to change code on the fly (emergency situations). This product definitely leans toward small laptop and tablet use cases, but if the push for phone support arises, I'll build out what I can!
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by edunteman 7y ago
Thanks for the warning! All apps currently offered are free licenses, with the exception of the Adobe suite and Autodesk Fusion. For those, you follow a workflow as if you were doing it on your own device. For Adobe, you're prompted to
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by edunteman 7y ago
Hey HN! First-time poster here, excited to show you what I've been working on. I'm a recent mechanical engineering grad and self-taught developer. I thought it was a pain in the ass (can we swear on HN?) to walk to a campus comput
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Show HN: Booste – a cloud-hosted desktop for developers(devs.booste.io)
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by edunteman 7y ago
This is really neat. I personally, as a bootstrapping founder fresh out of college, need to make income while still being able to focus on my own project. This idea really grabs my eye. Will be applying!