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Launch HN: GitDuck (YC S20) – Zoom for developers with real-time code sharing

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Re: Launch HN: GitDuck (YC S20) – Zoom for developers with real-time code sharing

#51

I might not be your target audience but is there any plan to support VIM users? Or perhaps even better a tmux plug-in?

I saw vim in the article so apparently the answer is yes, one of the highlights.

But honestly I feel like this maybe more useful in tutoring/interviews vs. working. My team of about 10 people is stretched over 1000s of files in about 100 packages and we also have planning to make sure we're not stepping on someone else's toes.

Re: Launch HN: GitDuck (YC S20) – Zoom for developers with real-time code sharing

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Definitely a step forward in sharing by allowing each person to use their own editor. Looking forward to the vim plugin. I find myself also sharing consoles too, I'd like to see this extended to terminal sessions, perhaps the session could be rendered in other people's editors? Kind of like a live asciinema. I'd love to try this at work, unfortunately streaming Corp's code through an unapproved 3rd party service is a…

Terminal sharing is super important and we will work on it soon. This is one of the things that we need the most when we use GD internally. Connections are P2P btw, no code touches our servers. But yeah, I understand this is not enough to get approval.

As someone who's most used editor by far is vim (can't escape IDE when writing java), I'm happy that you're doing this.

However I feel like your market may be more geared towards interviewing/learning, I don't see how in my work environment that we'll ever need this.

Re: Launch HN: GitDuck (YC S20) – Zoom for developers with real-time code sharing

#54
I get why you’re saying “Zoom for...”, but I see Zoom as a poorly designed, user hostile and anti-privacy platform. It’s good to see that your description also mentions security. But it doesn’t mention anything about the word “privacy” explicitly, and that’s a huge missed opportunity for any solution that claims to be a Zoom replacement or alternative.

Re: Launch HN: GitDuck (YC S20) – Zoom for developers with real-time code sharing

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

how? i just read through. nobody would "assume a greater degree of association between you and the Git Project than actually exists."

Why not? If you made a backup product called "Windows Backup" (or more relevant to this example, a collaboration product for Microsoft Office called "Office Duck"), Microsoft will definitely go after you for trademark infringement. Why should it be any different for an open source project with a registered trademark?

What about GitHub and GitLab?

Re: Launch HN: GitDuck (YC S20) – Zoom for developers with real-time code sharing

#59
I appreciated the copy of the landing page--my literal first question after 'what is this?' was why would I use this when slack video and live share has been fine...it's still a tough value proposition but I'll certainly give it a spin and really would love to see a dev-built company like yours suceed!

Re: Launch HN: GitDuck (YC S20) – Zoom for developers with real-time code sharing

#60

I appreciated the copy of the landing page--my literal first question after 'what is this?' was why would I use this when slack video and live share has been fine...it's still a tough value proposition but I'll certainly give it a spin and really would love to see a dev-built company like yours suceed!

The video is a bit annoying, as it keeps switching between Chrome & VS Code. It would be easier to watch if the windows were side by side.
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