Ask HN: Is this a cool idea?
I am a Java developer for my day job. We have a bunch of servers running Linux on the Amazon cloud. I have created a Windows application in C++ that acts like a remote desktop to the Linux servers. When I run it it connects over ssh to a server and displays a window that simulates the desktop of the server even though there is no GUI running on it. Inside that window I can view the file system like in Windows. I can drag files from my local machine to the server or vice versa. I can double click on a text file and it opens within a subwindow as a text editor. It effectively combines Notepad++ for editing text files, putty for opening comand lines and WinSCP for uploading/moving/deleting files. I am also working on a MySQL module so I can manipulate the local db too. Is this something any of you would find useful? Could I make a product out of this? Is there something like this already available?
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