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Pico.sh – SSH powered services for developers

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Alright, i had plans to use Github (or maybe something Cloudflare ish) but your $2/m has me seriously interested. I'm reviewing now.

I hate when i see fun side projects that cost the same as full subscriptions to other products. There's only a handful of $15/m services i "want" in my life.. it really raises the barrier to entry when i'm so aware and averse to subscription costs.

Yet $2/m? Instantly sold on that price. It's a fun price, it looks like a fun product, it lines up perfectly for me. It's silly that the price has me almost more interested than the product. Love it

Thanks for this, i plan to try it out!

10 months agoby unshavedyak

Co-Founder here, thanks for the interest in our micro-saas powered by SSH.

Happy to answer any questions!

10 months agoby qudat

I stumbled across this clever service when looking for a “pastebin” that handled rendering terminal output with ANSI codes. The irony is that they don’t actually allow that (just plain text can be piped to their pastes service), but I found their whole site and vibe delightful!

And the two authors, qudat, and antoniomima are active on HN, as their responsive comments here demonstrate. Just good work all around.

10 months agoby TheTaytay

Love the idea, but I couldn't find a "pricing" page and wanted to abandon reading immediately (I have no time for unsustainable services). Then I learned from the discussion that the pricing is $2/m, which, two things: 1) I still can't find that price on the web site, and 2) it seems unsustainable to me, so I'm still worried.

I run a B2B SaaS. Support costs is what eats you alive: in case of a complex B2B app anything below $40/month is unsustainable. This is of course better for simpler apps/services, but even there you have to be super careful.

10 months agoby jwr

10 months agoby taylorbuley

Very timely for this to come up. Just this morning I was wiring up a personal blog with Obsidian -> Hugo -> Github Pages. I might swap Github Pages out for Pico.sh, it's definitely my kinda service. Well, either that or self-host it.

10 months agoby oldandboring

Love the KISS approach to your services. Simple text files, built on fundamental services. Honestly also a great way to build SSH (and associated suite) chops for folks just entering Linux/Unix/BSD/*nix world or who only know Windows.

Going to poke at it this week myself. Looks like a healthy competitor to PikaPods for the basic stuff.

Keep up the good work!

10 months agoby stego-tech

How interesting! I'm excited by all the energy lately that i've seen around more text-based fun stuff, from Gemini to tilde communities to more TUIs/TUI apps, to this ssh powered set of services! Keep 'em coming!

10 months agoby mxuribe

At risk of scope creep, the greatest selling point Netlify has for me is automatic form email support for static sites. Would be awesome if pico.sh supported that.

10 months agoby 0xcoffee

Big fan of pico.sh, been hosting a few small sites on there for a while now, no faster way to get something up and running

10 months agoby scbenet

That's fun, I found and subscribed to tuns.sh only 2 weeks ago. (I wrote up my experience, too https://danielittlewood.xyz/notes/self-hosting-with-tunnels)

10 months agoby tempfile

My company blocks ssh. Is there a way to tunnel this through HTTP?

10 months agoby amelius

Love the idea.

There are a couple oddities I found in the UI.

1. When you sign up the prompt says “signup”. I didn’t know what it wanted. I finally just guessed username and that was right.

2. I couldn’t get tokens to create (which they say are highly recommended). I hit c for create, entered a name, press enter. Nothing.

10 months agoby codazoda

$2/month is way too cheap. What's the realistic market size here? How much of that is achievable to capture within 24 months? It doesn't seem like it would even support a single developer's salary within that time. Things like this make me worry that this will not be around for long. Even an extremely talented and motivated solo founder will run out of steam earning a fraction of what their skills are worth serving the most fussy, demanding and ungrateful audience imaginable: nerds.

OP increase your prices!

10 months agoby sjtgraham

Very cool. Though might want to increase contrast on diagrams, for example here https://pico.sh/tuns

10 months agoby thelittleone

> Upload your static site to us

How do you prevent abuse, like illegal material?

10 months agoby mrbluecoat

I love this! I was about to start using Substack for a personal/professional blog and I was very concerned about the structure they "force" you into. I don't want to socialize in the way they want me to. I just want to write my stuff down, and perhaps help someone, but at the end, all I want is a place to share things with myself in a more elaborated way. Looking at it now!

10 months agoby caioariede

I signed up for this awhile back when it was free, it's been hosting bibbidibobbidi.boo ever since. It's very neat.

10 months agoby ctippett

It is strange, I tried to add my public key but received a response that it was already in use (!). Is there a way to determine the user associated with a public key? Perhaps it's possible I have previously created an account but I feel I would remember the UI.

10 months agoby hiatus

SSH is kind of a secret hidden interface because of how nerdy it is, so I feel that it goes underappreciated sometimes. I host one such interface, do ssh -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no funky.nondeterministic.computer and see what's on offer!

10 months agoby fragmede

https://pgs.sh/

> Promotion/rollback support > Managed HTTPS for all projects > Promotion and rollback support

"Promotion and rollback support" twice...

10 months agoby Lord_Zero

This is a really fun project! I've been trying to think of unique ways to allow non-devs to publish blog posts easily on their own websites and this is some great inspiration for it.

10 months agoby saunved_42

If not using the custom domain stuff, cookies need protection via Set-Cookie with `SameSite=Strict`, right? I couldn't see a note in the documentation

10 months agoby paul_h

Love to see a midwest/great lakes business address :)

10 months agoby jarboot

I have fish shell... took me a little bit to realize that this prevents it to create account, once I created it using bash, it works well. Just FYI.

10 months agoby desireco42

Sadly the CoC states:

  Don't upload "hate speech" (i.e. demeaning race, gender, age, religious or sexual orientation, etc.)

  Don't upload material that is threatening, harassing, defamatory, or that encourages violence or crime

This can be contorted to mean almost anything. In times such as these where regimes all across the globe are using "hate speech" as carte blanche to snuff out dissent, it's sad to see others openly follow suite.

10 months agoby anonfordays

I don't seem to be able to add multiple SSH public keys. When I try to create one, I paste my pub key and hit enter and… no key is added.

10 months agoby stouset

How does it compares with https://bearblog.dev/?

10 months agoby benoror