This is HN so don't bash me for saying this, but Emacs Dired rinses this.
File Pilot: A file explorer built for speed with a modern, robust interface
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#132This is HN so don't bash me for saying this, but Emacs Dired rinses this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMWwM8QJAtU&t=1s
Two completely unrelated products.
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#134Could somebody please explain how people are ready to invest their own time into development of such projects? I mean it's so risky and at the same time one still has to pay the bills.
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#135Wow that TortoiseSVN in context menu is a blast from the past! Looks like it's still under active development. Is SVN still being used in some industries? I know it used to be big in gamedev but I would have expected everyone to have moved on by now.
It's still used with Unreal Engine when people don't want to pay the Perforce tax. Although most of the "hip young kids" waste their time with git+lfs the people actually getting work done on LARGE projects still rely on Subversion... and probably tortoise.
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#136Wow, it's so lightweight. Thank you! Are you thinking about expanding the language support besides english?
Yes, proper localization will be probably be included in first official V1 version.
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#137I've followed this developer for a while, I'm glad to see it finally out in the open. Then I looked at the pricing... wow, you really gotta dislike explorer.exe.
I'm a long time Directory Opus (dopus) user which costs around 50 US$. Dopus is more extendible but probably not as fast. Seems like a reasonable price to me. When you deal with a LOT of files like I do as a game dev it pays for itself pretty quickly.
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#138I once devoted 2 years of my life to developing a file manager called fman [1]. In total, it generated probably 35,000$ in profits, so my income from the project is somewhere around 10 $/h. As software developers, our opportunity costs are high. I use my file manager to this day and love it. But I regret spending so much time on it.
Congratulations on your launch. I wish you more success than I've had. Failing that, I wish you that you will see earlier than I did when it is time to move on.
I once recorded a video about my experiences developing a file manager [2]. Maybe you'll also find some interesting bits and pieces on fman's blog [3]. Incidentally, an article there is what sparked my current venture, which is much more profitable: consulting services around automatic updates.
If you'd like to have a chat, feel free to reach out. My contact info is on my website. :-)
Good luck!
[1]: https://fman.io
Re: File Pilot: A file explorer built for speed with a modern, robust interface
#139This looks decent, I'd use it outside of Windows if it was available there.
Re: File Pilot: A file explorer built for speed with a modern, robust interface
#140Could somebody please explain how people are ready to invest their own time into development of such projects? I mean it's so risky and at the same time one still has to pay the bills.
I can't answer for the File Pilot author but I've spent many years on writing a file manager.
* It's fun to write and to use. It's like craftmanship.
* Hopefully some companies/people will realize how many hours they waste using the default OS file manager
* It's less risky than developing a game full time (I think)
* Sure, I lost a lot of money to not having a normal job but my bills are low and my priority is more happiness