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    Jeff Lindsay

    progrium.com · Personal blog · on HN since 2011

    Jeff Lindsay is a developer who created Localtunnel, Dokku, and Registrator, and helped design Docker and Flynn.

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    What HN says

    HN commenters recommend Localtunnel as a free, easy tool, and link his site for Dokku and his other infrastructure projects like Apptron.

    Stats for nerds
    40HN people shared it
    30linked in comments
    777story points
    Aug 2022last shared
    2011people per year2022

    Top posts on HN

    1. 1
      Localtunnel: instantly show localhost to the rest of the world
      14 people · 311 points · first shared 2011 · 63 comments on HN
    2. 2
      Dokku: A small PaaS implementation
      4 people · 210 points · first shared 2013 · 38 comments on HN
    3. 3
      Automatic Docker Service Announcement with Registrator
      2 people · 82 points · first shared 2014 · 4 comments on HN
    4. 4
      Consul Service Discovery with Docker
      1 person · 60 points · first shared 2014 · 3 comments on HN
    5. 5
      The Next 10 Years: Megalith
      2 people · 46 points · first shared 2015 · 20 comments on HN
    6. 6
      Piping into and out of the cloud with skypipe
      1 person · 17 points · first shared 2012 · 1 comments on HN
    7. 7
      Localtunnel - Share localhost with anyone on the web. [ruby gem]
      1 person · 7 points · first shared 2013 · 2 comments on HN
    8. 8
      Deis Breathes New Life into Dokku
      1 person · 6 points · first shared 2014 · Discussion on HN
    9. 9
      From webhooks to the evented web (2012)
      3 people · 5 points · first shared 2012 · Discussion on HN
    10. 10
      Building the Future with Docker
      1 person · 5 points · first shared 2014 · Discussion on HN

    What HN people wrote when they linked it

    • nerdfilesJun 2012

      I prefer Alfred (http://www.alfredapp.com/) over Quicksilver.

      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)

      31. Q…

    • progriumFeb 2015

      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...

    • jakozaurOct 2012

      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/

    • whalesaladMar 2014

      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.

    • zhemaoJun 2013

      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.

    • thuApr 2014

      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/

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