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Re: Show HN: Warp, a Rust-based terminal

#121
correct me if i'm wrong, but it sounds like the monetization strat here is to sell this to companies for their teams to use to increase collaboration. it would follow then that most-everything (?) i'm doing is being mirrored to a remote server. presumably, your target market would be engineers.

if true, as an engineer, i'm a hard pass.

Re: Show HN: Warp, a Rust-based terminal

#123

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I definitely understand the concerns. For our public beta, we do send telemetry and associate it with the logged in user because it makes it much easier to reach out and get feedback when something goes wrong. But we only track metadata, never console output. For an exhaustive list of events that we track, see here: https://docs.warp.dev/getting-started/privacy#exhaustive-tel... . Once we hit general availability, ou…

Maybe don't put this lie in the middle of the homepage? > Private & Secure > All cloud features are opt-in. Data is encrypted at rest.

Or prefix it with a "Final product will be ..."

Re: Show HN: Warp, a Rust-based terminal

#124
This is certainly interesting, but I am struggling to sign up.

I clicked "Sign up with GitHub", it took me to the website where I authorized it. It was seemingly working until I saw this:

"Oops! We were unable to log you in."

Re: Show HN: Warp, a Rust-based terminal

#126
post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I definitely understand the concerns. For our public beta, we do send telemetry and associate it with the logged in user because it makes it much easier to reach out and get feedback when something goes wrong. But we only track metadata, never console output. For an exhaustive list of events that we track, see here: https://docs.warp.dev/getting-started/privacy#exhaustive-tel... . Once we hit general availability, ou…

> we only track metadata, never console output It would be meaningful to indicate whether you track console input as well.

That's an important callout! By console output, we really mean output from the pseudoterminal, which includes command input and output printed to the terminal.

We don't store any content of _any_ part of a command that's executed in Warp.

Re: Show HN: Warp, a Rust-based terminal

#127

> I’m ___, founder and CEO of Warp, and am excited to show you Warp, a fast Rust-based terminal To be honest - it feels weird seeing a company launch a free terminal, in 2022. How will the company make money? How long will this tool be around for? How will this company degrade the experience, or my privacy, so they can make money? I also don't know how to square my thoughts on the above with the need to have sustaina…

Here's my idea! A repurposed "sl" (the stream locomotive program) that displays ads every 300 characters you type.

Re: Show HN: Warp, a Rust-based terminal

#128

> I’m ___, founder and CEO of Warp, and am excited to show you Warp, a fast Rust-based terminal To be honest - it feels weird seeing a company launch a free terminal, in 2022. How will the company make money? How long will this tool be around for? How will this company degrade the experience, or my privacy, so they can make money? I also don't know how to square my thoughts on the above with the need to have sustaina…

Warp engineer here.

The terminal is totally free for individuals. Our business model is to make the terminal so useful for individuals that their companies will want to pay for the team features.

We will not degrade your experience: we would never charge for anything a terminal currently does. No paywalls around SSH or features that don't cost us money. We will never sell your data. We treat privacy seriously at Warp: check out www.warp.dev/privacy for more information.

We are planning to open-source parts and potentially all of the terminal.

Re: Show HN: Warp, a Rust-based terminal

#129
post #35

> Telemetry > When Warp comes out of beta, telemetry will be opt-in and anonymous. > But for our beta phase, we do send telemetry by default and we do associate it with the logged in user because it makes it much easier to reach out and get feedback when something goes wrong. This is a hard pass for me, it looks really amazing though. I'm so tired of telemetry, how do we quit our day jobs to focus on open source? ;-;

I expect someone will fork shortly and remove all the telemetry

The issue is having to wait for someone else to do it. I feel the same way as a gamer waiting for third party fans to build mods/fixes/overlays that fix issues of a game that the dev decided not to implement for whatever reason. Good that it happens, wish it really didn't because now your product is more purchasable to some people because someone other than you fixed it.

Re: Show HN: Warp, a Rust-based terminal

#130

Hello Zach, founder and CEO of Warp. What makes you think its acceptable for you to spam HN with Warp every few months ?

He's specifically looking for the engineering crowd at HN. I hadn't heard about Warp and I've been on HN every day since 2010. Give the guy a break.
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