I was part of the team that built this and I can say from extensive use that it does work. It doesn't do everything that I'd love for it to do (for example, we're still working on supporting higher screen resolutions), but it's a really solid start. Please do check it out, and let us know what would make it more awesome!
It's great for manual testing, just be aware that the performance of the machines they host the browsers on is REALLY bad, to the point that it may make it hard to do testing of HTML5 apps. For basic website testing it works pretty great.
The application is in some sense basically a wrapper around a VNC connection. It's likely that the performance issues you're seeing are due to VNC latency rather than the power of the virtual machines themselves or the hardware they run on (which is pretty beefy). But your point is well made: given this architecture you can't really watch video or do things that require high framerates.
Thanks! I'm gonna try to add some instructions before deadline! Did you notice that you can control the camera with the mouse? Maybe that should be noted as well?
Nice game! You obviously spent more time than we did on graphics. It would be nice to hear what you guys think about our attempt: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4852549
One idea might be to charge per usage rather than on a monthly basis. So let's say I'm starting a project I pay a one-time fee to use the application for a certain amount of queries, days or weeks. Like skyhook_mockups said it's not something I'd use everyday but rather a couple of times a year when I start a new project or pivot.
That seems like a clean setup, but it gets complicated when you want to have some transparency, e.g. show clients that you are aware of a problem and working on it, like a ticket system..
The size of the team doesn't matter. It will fit your need regardless the number of the developers.
For the client interaction, you create an account for them with the right permissions and that's it.
I've been working for about a year now with JIRA and Confluence and I can't belive I didn't use it before.
I looked into the Atlassian tools but they seem too overkill for me, currently the project is still quite small and I just have a couple of clients, and only collaborating with other people occasionally.. But thanks for the tip! Will definitely look into it again when the project has grown bigger.
Same here! Very interesting until I realized it's subscription based. Apps should have a one time cost and maybe costs for major updates. I can't even see the reason to have a recurring fee, why?
Because it's not an app in the regular sense, it's an email filtering and tagging web service. You'd be paying for their servers crunching your emails over the time you were subscribed to them.
Edit: From their FAQ:
Mail Pilot is more than an app; it's a comprehensive online software
service. It runs on servers, and delivers and syncs content between
every Mail Pilot app that you might use.
You can access Mail Pilot through a number of desktop, native
mobile, and web applications. To make this possible, Mail Pilot adds
services to your existing mail accounts that it syncs between all of
your devices. Our servers store metadata about your messages (not
the messages themselves, however!) to bring to you the reimagination
of email that so many have come to love.
Mail clients can get away with charging one time. Our apps are all
free, but the service is paid for, much like other online
productivity and email enhancement services.
