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by Vendan 3631 days ago
The big confusion is that nothing even says what this is truly about before you say "here, try it out". I can understand that having to spin up a linux container per user means there are large resource costs, but I don't understand why you need a linux container to make an interactive tutorial. Further reading on the page clarifies that you are giving terminal access to the linux container and such, but the initial "above the fold" content makes no mention of that, and nor does the "We can't right now, give me your email and I'll tell you when page". Knowing what's involved, I can now understand it, but from a fresh slate, it (to be blunt) looks like you either don't know what caching is, or your system is shit. You might consider an explanation of all that stacktile does on that signup page, so people can see "oh, it's giving me shell on a fresh container, of course that needs lots of resources and such".
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Hi, point taken: we can explain on the signup page in more detail why we can't accommodate every user.

Thanks for the feedback.

I think the main point you're not taking yet Dan is that you SHOULD be able to accommodate every user in your sales pipeline demo. Even if you fake it with pre-baked results or something in the meantime, Pick a sample->click next->load static html.

If they want to try out their own markdown, then worry about spinning up a container.

From what I've seen, part of the "result" is a connection to a linux terminal. Not exactly easy to pre-bake that.