Jeff Lindsay is a developer who created Localtunnel, Dokku, and Registrator, and helped design Docker and Flynn.
HN commenters recommend Localtunnel as a free, easy tool, and link his site for Dokku and his other infrastructure projects like Apptron.
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Recommending:
1. https://github.com/Lokaltog/vim-powerline
2. https://github.com/revans/bash-it
3. https://github.com/tpope/vim-fugitive, https://github.com/tpope/surround
4. The https://github.com/scrooloose/nerdtree
5. http://bywordapp.com/
6. http://bbt2.drikin.com/
7. http://willmore.eu/software/isolator/
8. https://gist.github.com/2260182 (OS X for Hackers)
9. Cathode (http://www.secretgeometry.com/apps/cathode/, for shits and giggles)
10. DiffMerge (http://www.sourcegear.com/diffmerge/)
11. Electric Sheep (http://www.electricsheep.org/)
12. Gridwars (http://gridwars.marune.de/)
13. Integrity (http://peacockmedia.co.uk/integrity/)
14. httrack (http://www.httrack.com/)
15. iSoul (http://code.google.com/p/isoul/)
16. LittleIpsum (http://littleipsum.com/)
17. KeyCastr (https://github.com/sdeken/keycastr, more shits)
18. LiveReload (http://livereload.com/)
19. Mactracker (http://mactracker.ca/)
20. Onyx and/or Maintenance (http://www.titanium.free.fr/)
21. MAMP (http://www.mamp.info/)
22. MacVim (http://code.google.com/p/macvim/)
23. Patterns (http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/patterns-the-regex-app/id429449079?mt=12)
24. Mou (http://mouapp.com/)
25. mutt (http://www.mutt.org/)
26. Pixelmator (http://www.pixelmator.com/)
27. ProCSSor (http://procssor.com/)
28. Reeder (http://reederapp.com/)
29. Skim (http://skim-app.sourceforge.net/)
30. Slammer (http://ringce.com/slammer)
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So, I wrote Dokku, helped design Docker, was co-architect of Flynn, and am now in R&D partnership with Deis. I also made Localtunnel, RequestBin, Hacker Dojo, etc etc if anybody is keeping track. I guess I'm not who this question was intended for, but I figured I'd share some context.
I can't speak as much to Flynn right now, but here is a fairly recent blog post about the current status of Dokku:
http://progrium.com/blog/2014/10/28/deis-breathes-new-life-into-dokku/
tl;dr, after a long lull between 2013 and 2014, its activity has picked up and is slowly working towards a 1.0 including a major refactoring to address a lot of issues and bring it up to modern standards. In fact, here is our refactoring doc in progress:
https://github.com/progrium/dokku/wiki/Refactoring
I feel the flaws of these projects quite deeply, especially Dokku. But I'm surprised to still run into so many people (just not as many here) that really love Dokku. Without them I would not be motivated to come back to it and make it what it should be.
Keep in mind Dokku was the first killer app for Docker and a lot of my design influence on Docker was to be able to easily make something like Dokku and eventually systems like Flynn, Deis, etc. But also so many other things...
Pretty much every developer got access to web server. Why not just use ssh tunnels?
ssh -f -N -q -R 123:localhost:80 login@remote.example.com
The only difference is that your website will be on different port, e.g. remote.example.com:123
For me it is much easier to setup, cost 0$ vs. >= 4$ / month. I do not have to trust someone to run some random code with root privileges...
Am I missing something? The number of website which offer something that substitute ssh tunnel is astonishing.
Anyway, there is also free version by twilio:
http://progrium.com/localtunnel/
Mark my words these guys are gonna be huge. Sure they are lacking in a lot of areas (like bananas mentions) but thats why you get VC funding and hire a badass like Jeff Lindsay (http://progrium.com)
I'm really excited to see these dudes take on AWS with a higher-level and more performant platform.
Were you aware of localtunnel "http://progrium.com/localtunnel/" before you started this project? I think it does sort of the same thing. Obviously you have a lot more features than localtunnel does (SSL, HTTP Auth, Raw TCP/UDP tunneling), but it's something to be aware of.
Actually after Jeff Lindsay latest blog post[0] I thought that the project was put on the back burner. What is the relationship between cupcake and the initial author(s) ?
[0]: http://progrium.com/blog/2014/02/06/the-start-of-the-age-of-flynn/