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Re: Show HN: Gitdot – A better GitHub. Open-source, written in Rust

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Post by syngrog66 »

unfortunate name: very similar to Godot at passing glance. my brain already stumbles going back and forth between seeing LLVM and LLM, IP (Internet protocol) and IP (Intellectual property). Don't me started on X vs X vs X vs ...

I do like that it reinforces this rule of thumb:

  Q: "How do you know if any given piece of software is written in Rust?
  A: "Oh they'll tell you. They *will* tell you. Upfront and over and over again."

Re: Show HN: Gitdot – A better GitHub. Open-source, written in Rust

#102

Post by zZorgz »

baepaul wrote: post #66
clickety_clack wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’d love to hear an IP lawyer weigh in on this, because I’ve never heard of this kind of thing before. It doesn’t seem correct that you can use trademark alone like this to extend beyond the actual word used in the trademark. Maybe it’s from licensing or something, ie maybe if a product uses the actual git product, then the git license means you can’t use the name as part of a word.

thank you both for chiming in. i will be honest and say that we didn't do our due diligence here (we simply assumed that it would be okay to do so, given the existence of GitHub, GitLab, GitKraken, GitButler, and so forth). it does look like from digging in: https://public-inbox.org/git/20170202022655.2jwvudhvo4hmueaw... that portmanteaus are prohibited by the policy that the Git PLC enforces, which as Jeff notes in…

In my opinion (which may be worth little), by using "git" in your product's name today you are also locking onto that technology. So if an another or better VCS comes along (like jj) that you want to embrace it could be harder. (Kind of like how Bitbucket betted wrongly on hg, then later added and switched to git).

Re: Show HN: Gitdot – A better GitHub. Open-source, written in Rust

#103

Post by kbelder »

kbelder wrote: post #96
layer8 wrote: post #85

Earlier quoted context omitted.

While we're critiquing, the demographics that I'm part of has trouble taking someone seriously who is too lazy or sloppy to use the Shift key and complete punctutation.

I hate that too, of course, but as long as it doesn't creep into the actual product or website itself, it doesn't really matter. At least they aren't using five digit years...

And after looking at the site more, I have to say I'm pretty interested. It is a nice-feeling site. There's a few UI oddities that need to have the rough edges sanded off, but I very much like the main approach.

Re: Show HN: Gitdot – A better GitHub. Open-source, written in Rust

#105

Post by applfanboysbgon »

reactordev wrote: post #100
applfanboysbgon wrote: post #99

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what makes you think they are abandoned? Maybe they are in-use...? Maybe the landscape shifted to where niche tools like that aren't monetizable?

The landing page is still a "join the waitlist" placeholder and there hasn't been a single commit since one week after they announced it, ten months ago. Together with the entire repo and the ShowHN post itself being vibed through and through, it seems apparent that putting any amount of human effort into that project was never on the agenda. Which naturally leads one to wonder, what makes this project different?

Re: Show HN: Gitdot – A better GitHub. Open-source, written in Rust

#106

Post by quuxplusone »

nine_k wrote: post #90
baepaul wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

it is based off a minimum pixel as of now, apologies. the overall reason why we didn't ship a mobile site is that code is inherently very hard to read on mobile and i think to do that properly, you have to design explicitly for it. (and that is not, in fact, something that i do want to vibe code)

At least it would be reasonable to show a message like "Sorry, no mobile support yet".

As a banner or something, maybe. But I'd much rather see a broken-looking site on mobile than see nothing at all on mobile.

In the same category: websites that display nothing but a splash screen "This site requires Internet Explorer X" or whatever. Don't nanny me, just feed my browser the HTML! Whether my browser can render it properly is my problem, not yours.

Re: Show HN: Gitdot – A better GitHub. Open-source, written in Rust

#107

Post by reactordev »

applfanboysbgon wrote: post #105
reactordev wrote: post #100

Earlier quoted context omitted.

what makes you think they are abandoned? Maybe they are in-use...? Maybe the landscape shifted to where niche tools like that aren't monetizable?

The landing page is still a "join the waitlist" placeholder and there hasn't been a single commit since one week after they announced it, ten months ago. Together with the entire repo and the ShowHN post itself being vibed through and through, it seems apparent that putting any amount of human effort into that project was never on the agenda. Which naturally leads one to wonder, what makes this project different?

it's YC we are talking about, everything is vibed through.

Re: Show HN: Gitdot – A better GitHub. Open-source, written in Rust

#109

Post by keyle »

We've built a better SpaceX! says kid with cardboard rocket in the backyard. In Rust we trust!

Common man, you're not even 5% of a Github replacement. Don't act like one. You've built a Git web UI with accounts, the easy part.

> Building software is still hard

You don't say.

Re: Show HN: Gitdot – A better GitHub. Open-source, written in Rust

#110

Post by Grimblewald »

reactordev wrote: post #100
applfanboysbgon wrote: post #99

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what makes you think they are abandoned? Maybe they are in-use...? Maybe the landscape shifted to where niche tools like that aren't monetizable?

1. It's unfinished 2. Textbook slop dump and run

we can see one big initial push, not too suspect. Then a few superficial updates, and then nothing for months.

Unfinished, broken, and ostentiably abandond due to being an unmaintaible nightmare as vibeslop tends to be.

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