Herdr is joining Y Combinator. The runtime stays open
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Re: Herdr is joining Y Combinator. The runtime stays open
#2I am a HUGE herdr fan - discovered it a few months ago and it's exactly what I need for my workflow. Thousands of others have discovered it as well, which is awesome.
I have such mixed feelings about this - YC means VC means commercialization means enshitification. I really wish that weren't the case, but it so very often is.
Here's hoping this one's different...
(PS I am a big YC fan in general! I don't mean to sound anti-YC or anti-VC or anti-capitalism. But when it comes to low-level essential development tools, I'll never forget what happened to Warp, which started out as such a nice clean terminal project and turned into an absolute money-chasing mess.)
Re: Herdr is joining Y Combinator. The runtime stays open
#3Wow, congrats! Can you discuss how you got YCombinator to select your open source project? I know they sometimes fund open source… I’ve been building several large platforms since 2011 but I have never considered applying like that.
Would something like this qualify:
Re: Herdr is joining Y Combinator. The runtime stays open
#4I am a HUGE herdr fan - discovered it a few months ago and it's exactly what I need for my workflow. Thousands of others have discovered it as well, which is awesome. I have such mixed feelings about this - YC means VC means commercialization means enshitification. I really wish that weren't the case, but it so very often is. Here's hoping this one's different... (PS I am a big YC fan in general! I don't mean to soun…
Yeah, it’s great but with this, it’s probably the time to find an alternative, I probably can see where this will be in a year or so.
Re: Herdr is joining Y Combinator. The runtime stays open
#5Okay, back to tmux it is then.
Re: Herdr is joining Y Combinator. The runtime stays open
#6> That’s why I recently switched it from AGPL to Apache: I want everyone to use Herdr freely, without any problem.
I'm curious what the actual problems with AGPL were.
Re: Herdr is joining Y Combinator. The runtime stays open
#7> That’s why I recently switched it from AGPL to Apache: I want everyone to use Herdr freely, without any problem. I'm curious what the actual problems with AGPL were.
Can't make money if people use your tool and are required to share their source code
Re: Herdr is joining Y Combinator. The runtime stays open
#8wtf is "runtime"
Re: Herdr is joining Y Combinator. The runtime stays open
#9I am a HUGE herdr fan - discovered it a few months ago and it's exactly what I need for my workflow. Thousands of others have discovered it as well, which is awesome. I have such mixed feelings about this - YC means VC means commercialization means enshitification. I really wish that weren't the case, but it so very often is. Here's hoping this one's different... (PS I am a big YC fan in general! I don't mean to soun…
Yeah, it’s great but with this, it’s probably the time to find an alternative, I probably can see where this will be in a year or so.
why “find” an alternative? if you’re a herdr user you’re perfectly capable of maintaining a fork just for yourself :)
Re: Herdr is joining Y Combinator. The runtime stays open
#10Quick question: Would you have actually donated to Herdr if they were asking for donations? I don't think any of you would have, unless stated otherwise.
So this is another reason why developers do not pay for their tools and instead the developers of these tools go to VCs anyway. It's not the fault of the author, but most of the users (developers themselves) always want their tools for free at $0.
You have to pay and support the tools you use or else the VCs will do it for you so you can't complain when scenarios like this keep happening.