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by gojomo 5390 days ago
Love the concept. Casual use of VMs-as-if-they-were-documents is a great trend that still has a lot of potential. (StackRocket/Blueprint/Vagrant/etc could possibly benefit from a Ninite-like visual interface for bootstrapping dev/server VMs.)

A couple landing page nits:

• it'd be helpful to have some extra details/screenshots for people without flash to play the demo video

• lots of things on the landing page seem like they should be clickable to get started, but aren't. For example, 'Create a dev stack' and 'Make a stack, customize it' button-like areas. I bet using a click-analytics heatmap you'd see a lot of stray clicks on those.

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That's a great idea! I'll bet chef and some elbow grease on the part of the service provider would make the ninite ideal possible for some limited subset of popular tools. This is where Turnkey Linux should be heading, too.
Thanks for the feedback. We're always looking to improve.