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It's been brought to my attention that the website and HN post was misleading regarding the "from any device" claim.

Booste currently only runs on Windows machines, and runs Windows apps. I have updated the plans page to more clearly reflect this.

I am actively developing this for other device platforms, starting with Mac and Linux on the device side, and Linux environments on the cloud side.

I'm the sole developer of this product and wrote the first line of code only three months ago. I appreciate your patience. My intent is not to mislead - it is to paint the vision.

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Ok, we've changed the title from "Run heavy desktop apps from any device" to what it says on the page.

Very helpful, thanks!

Running a development environment from an iPad would really catch my interest. It's something I've already done in the past using Emacs over Blink (a Mosh terminal for iOS), but the experience was not ideal.

I'd need to be able to open multiple terminals and install semi-random programs though. It's not clear to me if that's fits in with your vision.

I'm certainly flexible to work with the use cases I see.

Your Emacs workflow is one I'd happily replace with a proper GUI (VSCode, etc).

The current iteration is quite literally a full remote desktop, onto which you can install any semi-random program you'd like. In fact, there's even a "Barebones Windows" desktop available, with no installs, for you to flesh out as you please. Multiple terminals are totally cool too!

That said, the long-term vision is to make the apps you use seem local, so there's no context-switching. I'd like Booste to just be a wrapper around the app - if I could eliminate the desktop on the server end and simply capture the application window, that'd be the most seamless experience for users who are not used to context-switching into remote desktops.

I use amazon workspaces and the iOS app works just fine for me. Behaves as a desktop would afaik

You can serve VS Code up with a web server and use it with anything that has a browser.

Do you have any info on how to do this?

LinuxServer.io has a Docker image that I use.

Super helpful here, thanks for pointing me toward this!

I have been running Cloud Shell on the google cloud console app on iOS. Only your home folder persists but you can set up a custom cloud shell environment with docker to add your favorite tools.

Its pretty good for coding on the go (with vim) but for multiple terminals you might be better off using screen or tmux. I can even deploy on the command line because of gcloud and gsutil cli toolchains.

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