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Re:After a year of struggling, my startup is now open source by goldenkey on Saturday December 21, 2013 @01:02AM (#6945950)
That's exactly the problem we have at https://commando.io/

No one wants to give us SSH keys to their server. So we have a great product but it's very hard to sell.

Re:After a year of struggling, my startup is now open source by hnriot on Saturday December 21, 2013 @01:29AM (#6945991)
"we have a great product but it's very hard to sell" - how can that be true. If it's a great product it would sell.

Obviously nobody in their right mind would hand over their ssh keys to you.

Also the name probably puts some people off. I also don't see any need for what the product does.

"Never type the same commands into multiple terminal windows again!" - I can easily do that already with ssh (or clusterSSH) - I don't want a UI for server commands, I want to script this stuff. When you analyze a little deeper, I think you'll see why the product isn't selling. I hope you are able to make a go of it, but my gut instinct tells me that dashboards and apps like yours are too hard to make into anything substantial.

Re:After a year of struggling, my startup is now open source by goldenkey on Saturday December 21, 2013 @06:38AM (#6946447)
Well Commando.IO has a hosted version. But I don't believe that rakes Command.IO in much money. If people had more trust, Commando.IO would be covered in cash. It's a great product!
Re:After a year of struggling, my startup is now open source by eurleif on Saturday December 21, 2013 @10:00AM (#6946792)
I like how your response to criticism is to ignore it, and say how great your product is in the third person.
Re:After a year of struggling, my startup is now open source by darkbot on Saturday December 21, 2013 @07:08AM (#6946486)
Wow. Seem like a great product. Maybe you could license it to cloud hosters? I'd love Linode to have an interface like this.
Re:After a year of struggling, my startup is now open source by rgbrenner on Saturday December 21, 2013 @10:36AM (#6946875)
(off topic) your logo looks very similar to the crunchbang linux logo: http://crunchbang.org/
Re:After a year of struggling, my startup is now open source by nodesocket on Saturday December 21, 2013 @06:51PM (#6948634)
Founder of Commando.io here. First, I'm not exactly sure who you are, but your not officially associated with Commmando.io. Second, we generate SSH keys, and users then add our generate pub key into their servers authorized_keys. Users can revoke the commando.io pub key at any time from authorized_keys.