Announcing Browserling!

some majorly exciting technology, means i don't have to run ies4lin anymore!

That's right kit!

In fact, that it isn't as painfully obvious to YC as it is to me is all the evidence anyone with any startup experience needs that YC is run by people who lucked into money, not people who know how to do startups. (Yeah, they had a startup sell at the time when everything was getting bought that wasn't nailed down.)

Wow, really figures that Y combinator wouldn't even bring you guys in for an interview. I've been keeping up with you're work these past several months and continually impressed. I've been doing startups for 20 years... I know good founders when I see them.

I think Y combinator is a bunch of douchebags who will try to feed you into the Silicon Valley startup mill, which really isn't a good place for launching startups, despite what they'd have you believe. Unfortunately, for people who haven't been in a bunch of startups they don't have the experience to know that the lines being fed are BS. It's like investors turning their money over to people running mutual funds, they forget that those running mutual funds make money by getting people to turn over their money to them... same thing with YC, only its equity and trust they exploit.

You guys will succeed if you keep at it, it is guaranteed. It does take some talent, and some luck, but really not much, and you've got the perspective to make your own luck and the talent to make valuable products.

In fact, that it isn't as painfully obvious to YC as it is to me is all the evidence anyone with any startup experience needs that YC is run by people who lucked into money, not people who know how to do startups. (Yeah, they had a startup sell at the time when everything was getting bought that wasn't nailed down.)

Anyway-- best wishes.

Thanks!

Tried it, never got to see anything other than the loading page, which was interrupted by the time's up page. So I never got to see anything.

Not quite ready for prime time, I think?

Not yet. This is beta. Now that we have launched we know exactly what the weak points are and we can work on those!

Launch and then iterate is how we do things. Launch even if it's broken!

Neat idea, but your presentation of it sucks. Terrible audio with a bad logo, no wonder people wont take you seriously. Presentation is everything, and when you look like you are a bunch of peope using wordard and a mic from their nokia that is probably how people are going to view the rest of the stuff you make.

Why so serious?

#freeadvice

Thanks but I prefer being silly. :)

Good luck.

Thanks!

+1

Sweet, I could definitely use a service like this. There are a few out there but last time I looked none seemed a good enough fit for me to buy. I'm cheap and only need it occasionally but I would pay something if it was easy/simple and priced right.

Awesome. We'll have some cheap plan for sure after we put multiple users on a single windows instane. Also any ideas how much you'd be able to afford for the service?

That's incredible. Keep up the great work.

Thanks!

Keep doing what you are doing, you guys are on the right path.

Yeah!

No chance to try it. The only thing people can see is a combination of loading screens.

We had some technical troubles. Try now.

Fake. I've read the throughout javascript code and there is no mechanism to view/connect to a virtual machine.

I can tell that from the pixels, why read the source code?

It doesn't work...

Hi, try now, we had major trouble when thousands of people started hitting the servers when we launched!

Thanks, it is working now. Everyone having trouble consider creating an account, cause it is a lot faster than guest mode.

Very cool stuff! I've always thought this would make a great service. Look forward to testing it out.

Checked it out, a big suggestion I have is to be able to set the resolution of the frame/window your site is rendered within.

I only got 1:30 preview as well.

I tried going to http://www.stockchase.com which is a text only website dealing with the stock market.
After waiting in queue for a minute or two, I was shown a blank screen with a count down in the corner. Assuming the countdown was letting me know how the processing was going I waited until it reached 0. At which point it said that time was up.

Tried a secondtime, and it timed out before showing me the blank screen.

I thought browing a text website would be really easy.

Same here... I waited quite a bit, and was trying to go to http://blackfriday.com

When it was my turn I got a waiting "robot" screen then blank grey screen. I tried changing using different browsers, but it was really unresponsive to my clicks. My time was up after tying to try three browsers (safari, opera, ie8) and I had only seen a big grey box for each.

I hope you guys can resolve your issues because it looks like this would be extremely useful.

Yes this was the issue I had to.

Firstly it doesn't go to the URL i want to. It loads some pages someone loaded before. Secondly the comment box got overshadowed by the browserling's screen.

I know I'm late to the party here, but you have made something really, REALLY cool here Peteris! Love. It.

Can't get it to work. Tried it in Firefox 3.6 and got stuck on "Loading" Chrome 7 doesn't render anything

Wow! This is just awesome... Only a dev who uses Mac knows how hard it is to get IE running on it. Revolutionary idea. Can't believe YC rejected you guys. Dunno about the rest... but i love the logo :P Keep up the good work. I just have one issue to raise... I can kinda override the 5min limit by pressing the "go" button seconds before it expires. Just so you can fix that bug. :)

browserling is incredibly awesome. It is now 100% stable from my current usage.

I was showing our QA guys this product at my company and then showed them the work that was going on with Testling,

and they all said "This is the future of testing!! forget selenium!"

Definitely a must have for QA specialists!

Good luck with Browserling. I use BrowserStack from time-to-time and find that they offer a good service at a decent price.

I tried it with one of my own sites that I have already tested on Browerstack. Browserling looks less polished, very slow and works less smoothly, at the moment but that is understandable given that it is still in beta. I am curious to see how it all develops.

Such a very useful article. Very interesting to read this article.I would like to thank you for the efforts you had made for writing this awesome article.

Nice information, valuable and excellent design, as share good stuff with good ideas and concepts, lots of great information and inspiration, both of which I need, thanks…

Thanks may have not intended to do so, but I think you have managed to express the state of mind that a lot of people are in. The sense of wanting to help, but not knowing how or where

Thanks may have not intended to do so, but I think you have managed to express the state of mind that a lot of people are in. The sense of wanting to help, but not knowing how or where

I tried it with one of my own sites that I have already tested on Browerstack. Browserling looks less polished, very slow and works less smoothly, at the moment but that is understandable given that it is still in beta. I am curious to see how it all develops.