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

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

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Post by squeaky-clean »

pdimitar wrote: post #59
applfanboysbgon wrote: post #53

This is a violation of Git's trademark, and your usage of it is expressly prohibited by their policy. https://git-scm.com/about/trademark > [...] you may not use any of the Marks as a syllable in a new word or as part of a portmanteau (e.g., "Gitalicious", "Gitpedia") used as a mark for a third-party product or service. > Please be aware that GitHub and GitLab are exceptions to this Policy because they are subject to…

I mean OK, valid, and they really should get on it. But you are squinting really hard if you equate "programmers not being good lawyers" with "they obviously vibe-launched the product".

If you look at any other details of this it is very clearly vibecoded.

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

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Post by Grimblewald »

wjsekfghks wrote: post #92
domtron_vox wrote: post #77

I signed up and the code email went to spam. A quick look at the DNS seemed to show you were lacking DKIM and DMARC records. If I'm not mistaken about that, you should remedy that to ensure email providers don't dump your emails to spam.

Thanks for flagging, we were missing DMARC, now added

Bit odd it was missing at all. Makes me wonder how well the core infrastructure you're building on is understood, and how trustworthy any of this really is. If all I'm getting is some vibeslop, with zero expertise or skill added, even basic stuff like this, why shouldnt I just vibe my own better version tailored to my needs exactly? Same headaches as with your app (though likely less give what's on display), only now I dont pay you to give me headaches and I retain control.

The software was never the moat. The skills and experience crystalised within it was, and remains, the product.

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

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Post by skeledrew »

I see "anti-AI" in the description and I wonder what that entails. Then I try to look at one of those tending links and all I encounter is "Mobile support to come.", and mobile is my primary device for checking things out. I want to stay positive about the future if this project, but Idk what to think here.

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

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Post by socalgal2 »

layer8 wrote: post #85
baepaul wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

fair critique. i'll refrain from it in the future. but i will say that the point of our post isn't to really sell anyone here or on anything. we kinda know that our product as-is isn't ready to use at real scale (we lack issues, prs, ci, gotta fix a lot of bugs, etc.) we did just want to sincerely share what we built. and rust is a part of that, we chose it cause we wanted to learn it and we then quickly found out th…

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.

what demographic is that?

Me, on an international team, as learned that flawless english sentences as a metric about as silly as dress codes in business. I'll take my california laidback-ness to your stuffy NYC banker rules.

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

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Post by 999900000999 »

>As of now, all repositories are free, but we do envision charging for private repositories for teams in the future.

Please don’t do this.

Charge a fair price, in fact find a fair price and double it.

I don’t want a free GitHub clone, I want one that works.

How about 50$

50 private repos, 50GBs of git LFS storage. Add collaborators for free.

Actually respond to customers. At this level you only need 1000 paying customers to make it worth while for 2 developers.

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

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Post by adrianwaj »

999900000999 wrote: post #117

>As of now, all repositories are free, but we do envision charging for private repositories for teams in the future. Please don’t do this. Charge a fair price, in fact find a fair price and double it. I don’t want a free GitHub clone, I want one that works. How about 50$ 50 private repos, 50GBs of git LFS storage. Add collaborators for free. Actually respond to customers. At this level you only need 1000 paying custo…

Would you pledge in a crowd-funding campaign to build something like this?

You'd want something that doesn't allow training on private repos, so ideally not a private company that can change owners and managers and hence policies over time.

It's an interesting business case - open source website, revenue generating with some type of "open" business structure.

Its first repos could be of itself.

I had this idea for enabling pull requests to be in "pipelines" with each request crowd-funded (as an option) to thereby entice action. A small split could return to the main site itself for upkeep.

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

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Post by spiralcoaster »

applfanboysbgon wrote: post #99

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We shouldn't trust the new project. Right from [1] you linked to:

> The problems I kept running into:

> - I'm lazy.

That should tell you all you need to know about this super hype new fantastic GitHub written in Rust ! ! ! !

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

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Post by johnfn »

applfanboysbgon wrote: post #99

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This is unfair, and the vibe-coded swipe is unnecessary. Why would anyone continue working on a project if it's not seeing any adoption or interest? Many large successful apps were borne out of sharp pivots - Slack comes to mind.
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