Ask HN: How would you market PageKite, my "run web servers anywhere" service?
Me and a couple of friends have been working for a few months on our startup: http://pagekite.net/
PageKite is a software & service solution for making servers (primarily web servers, but it does SSH and other protocols too) on personal and mobile devices visible to the wider Internet. It is in many ways similar to Opera Unite, but it's far more powerful (IMO), it's open source and it's not tied to a browser.
We're bootstrapping and have reached "MVP" in that the software and the service both work, but the UI is still so primitive that it's really only useful to techies. We're working on that. :-)
But now that we have a product, we'd like to find some paying customers!
Got any advice for us? How would you monetize this service and market it? We have some ideas of course, it would be really great to get some outside input as well.
Thanks!
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Bryan http://onsidekick.com
We actually already do offer free trials, but identifying and reaching out to partners is something we have yet to make progress on.
Really glad you threw this out here! I could really see myself using it for prototypes and quick projects that don't warrant an actual server.
I think I'm going to add your script to my path or set it up as a bash alias so I can really make use of it.