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Argh! At the end of the video, he says "if you wish to try an early demo of stackvm, just visit stackvm.com", but there's no demo available -- the website says "In a few months, we'll start rolling out a free private demo. Sign up below and we'll send you an invite code when we're ready to launch."

I suppose the statement in the video technically correct. :-)

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Oops, I wanted to say "If you wish to try an early demo of stackvm in a few months, visit stackvm.com to sign up." :)

Oh well. I'm only griping because it looks really neat, and I want to try it out. How come you don't want people playing with the current stackvm? Is it because you're going to add a lot of features, and you expect people to be disappointed by the current feature set, because it's not currently stable, or because of something completely different?

It's because we don't have that much hardware.

But you can try to get it running on your own. If you pull my current 'chat' stackvm branch [1], it's the one we used in the 2nd demo. You'd need qemu, node.js and a few node.js libraries.

[1] http://github.com/pkrumins/stackvm/commit/162bca6eba35db815f...

Very cool. Thanks!

Not at all! The reason we haven't rolled out our demo yet is because hosting virtual machines takes a lot of server power to do. All of our code is up on github, so anybody can give it a spin for themselves, provided they can get it all running.

http://github.com/substack/stackvm

http://github.com/pkrumins/stackvm

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