Ask HN: How would you market PageKite, my "run web servers anywhere" service?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2369040
by HerraBRE • 15 years ago
9 5 15 years ago

Hello HN!

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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