I've downloaded the client, added an app (Django, Rails, and Node). When I tried to view the page, it 404'd and then promptly walked me through SSHing in and starting the server process.
I'm impressed.
Later in the day I'll dive a little deeper, but between frictionless "add an app" process to the way it feels like a local development environment - I think you've got a winner here.
Amazin'. Thanks for putting that out. zachfeldman at gmail if you'd like to put me on a list for people who find out when the Windows client comes out!
I was pleasantly surprised to see "Ghost" in the list of frameworks.
Edit: I would have liked to be able to paste in my password with Command-V in the Mac client. (I use LastPass, and had to right-click to paste my password in.)
Thanks for checking it out - there's a pricing page once you log in. Sorry that it's not very transparent right away - we'll get that fixed up.
We give away one hosted dev environment for free and charge 10$/month per app you want to build with it afterwards. The pricing amount is definitely not fixed - we just started our beta and wanted to hear thoughts from the HN community regarding the whole concept / experience.
Hi Jeff, it is really well hidden :). Other than that, I really don't have any other complaints, in fact, this is something I was considered doing, so that I can develop on same machine no matter what. I think you did it fairly elegant solution.
We originally designed Kite for django/rails/node/static html. But then Ghost was released.
Devs can use Kite to host a Ghost blog but also edit its underlying code without having to worry about setting it up locally and then pushing it somewhere else. We're really hoping that this makes contributing to the Ghost codebase & designing themes way easier.
We've included as much cross-platform code as possible in the client so we can start supporting Windows ASAP. I can't give an exact date but we're working hard on it.
I'm impressed.
Later in the day I'll dive a little deeper, but between frictionless "add an app" process to the way it feels like a local development environment - I think you've got a winner here.
Now, when can I pay you for this service? :)