10 comments

  • arjie 11 minutes ago
    That's wonderful and I know why it's an Indian founder. Was so hard to get a remote shell back then. Indian debit cards didn't work online reliably and so on. So what's the hardware underneath? Cloud server or on-prem?

    These days the world is amazing. Oracle Cloud gives you a ton for free. But perhaps there's some niche where this is useful. I have to say that this shared screen comms system is outrageously crazy, hahaha.

  • heyethan 51 minutes ago
    Feels like the real value here is zero setup.

    Even spinning up a VM can be enough friction for beginners. A browser shell is kind of “good enough” for that.

    Probably why tools like this keep sticking around. Wanna try.

  • harias 1 hour ago
    It's been a while since I've used it but Google cloud shell is a good free platform for learning Linux commands as well

    https://shell.cloud.google.com

  • actionfromafar 34 minutes ago
    User mode linux is so cool.
    • giis 21 minutes ago
      Yes, User mode linux pretty cool project. If I'm not wrong, UML is kind of predecessor to gvisor or firecracker from a different era.
  • Fire-Dragon-DoL 1 hour ago
    Well that server is worth 1M due to the 8GB RAM now!
    • user34283 20 minutes ago
      I wonder how much money went into the hosting over the years.

      A year ago I bought a Intel N100 Mini PC with 16 GB DDR5 RAM and a 512 GB SSD for $170.

      Maybe it could have hosted the site too. It's certainly a lot faster than Azure VMs with 4 "vCPUs".

  • sudo_cowsay 1 hour ago
    I've never tried Webminal (only used Linode for it's simplicity). But, it seems great. I'll probably try it out.
    • giis 1 hour ago
      Sure thanks, Let me know if you have feedback.
  • kevinbaiv 44 minutes ago
    This is a good reminder that good enough + zero setup often beats more powerful solutions.
  • tuananh 58 minutes ago
    iximuiz also give you 1 hour per day free i think.

    very easy to use. almost instant.

  • treysu 1 hour ago
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  • ramon156 51 minutes ago
    blegh, the content is interesting but i've grown numb towards AI speak. It's so generic that I lose interest halfway through.
    • andai 1 minute ago
      Yeah, the content itself is amazing but the AI writing detracts from that. I'd much rather read broken English than GPT output.