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Re: We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git

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Post by grogenaut » Fri, Apr 10, 2026, 4:26 AM UTC

bee_rider wrote: post #26

fxtentacle wrote: post #15

I feel like I really need to learn how to raise money. For $17M, one could probably build a vacuum robot prototype that’ll also clean up all of the kids toys and sort LEGO bricks by colour and size. Parents worldwide would love it. But instead, we get a replacement for Git. And I didn’t even bother to click the link because I’m fine with how Git works. On the list of pain points in my life, “what comes after Git” has…

I like git, it works perfectly fine on my command line. I do wonder, though, if it would have been designed differently if the whole “code forge” sort of application (or whatever GitHub and the like are called) was envisioned at the time. Pull requests aren’t even a concept in git proper, right? It seems like a kind of important type of tool. Even though git is awesome, we don’t need a monoculture.

Sorceforge predates git by about 11 years. As do several other projects like google code. Its not a new idea. Or basically most source control systems. Git, actually, is the more unique idea, of a DVCS... versus a cVCS...

Re: We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git

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Post by tiffanyh » Fri, Apr 10, 2026, 4:27 AM UTC

A lot of people seem confused about how they raised the money, but it’s actually a pretty easy VC pitch.

- It’s from one of GitHub’s cofounders.

- GitHub had a $7.5B exit.

- And the story is: AI is completely changing how software gets built, with plenty of proof points already showing up in the billions in revenue being made from things like Claude Code, Cusor, Codex, etc.

So the pitch is basically: back the team that can build the universal infrastructure for AI and agentic coding.

Re: We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git

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Post by jb1991 » Fri, Apr 10, 2026, 4:27 AM UTC

sph wrote: post #31

vividfrier wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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You guys cannot be serious, it feels like Poe’s Law day everyday in here!

I have to agree that the comment you are referring to seems to be nothing other than sarcasm despite that it doesn’t read that way at all. If it’s true, the world is definitely in trouble…

Re: We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git

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Post by orbifold » Fri, Apr 10, 2026, 4:27 AM UTC

Meleagris wrote: post #17

I recently switched to Jujutsu (jj) and it made me realize that “what comes after Git” might already exist. It turns out the snapshot model is a perfect fit for AI-assisted development. I can iterate freely without thinking about commits or worrying about saving known-good versions. You can just mess around and make it presentable later, which Git never really let you do nicely. Plus there’s essentially zero learning…

is there a jj hosting service?

Re: We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git

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Post by thwarted » Fri, Apr 10, 2026, 4:28 AM UTC

bee_rider wrote: post #26

fxtentacle wrote: post #15

I feel like I really need to learn how to raise money. For $17M, one could probably build a vacuum robot prototype that’ll also clean up all of the kids toys and sort LEGO bricks by colour and size. Parents worldwide would love it. But instead, we get a replacement for Git. And I didn’t even bother to click the link because I’m fine with how Git works. On the list of pain points in my life, “what comes after Git” has…

I like git, it works perfectly fine on my command line. I do wonder, though, if it would have been designed differently if the whole “code forge” sort of application (or whatever GitHub and the like are called) was envisioned at the time. Pull requests aren’t even a concept in git proper, right? It seems like a kind of important type of tool. Even though git is awesome, we don’t need a monoculture.

> or whatever GitHub and the like are called

GitHub is a social networking site that just so happens to have code hosting related features.

Re: We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git

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Post by fontain » Fri, Apr 10, 2026, 4:28 AM UTC

fxtentacle wrote: post #15

I feel like I really need to learn how to raise money. For $17M, one could probably build a vacuum robot prototype that’ll also clean up all of the kids toys and sort LEGO bricks by colour and size. Parents worldwide would love it. But instead, we get a replacement for Git. And I didn’t even bother to click the link because I’m fine with how Git works. On the list of pain points in my life, “what comes after Git” has…

The author is a founder of GitHub, he could raise $17m for “git but it’s called pit and a repository is a hole and committing code is called burying it” if he wanted to, investors care about pedigree.

Re: We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git

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Post by imron » Fri, Apr 10, 2026, 4:28 AM UTC

bee_rider wrote: post #26

fxtentacle wrote: post #15

I feel like I really need to learn how to raise money. For $17M, one could probably build a vacuum robot prototype that’ll also clean up all of the kids toys and sort LEGO bricks by colour and size. Parents worldwide would love it. But instead, we get a replacement for Git. And I didn’t even bother to click the link because I’m fine with how Git works. On the list of pain points in my life, “what comes after Git” has…

I like git, it works perfectly fine on my command line. I do wonder, though, if it would have been designed differently if the whole “code forge” sort of application (or whatever GitHub and the like are called) was envisioned at the time. Pull requests aren’t even a concept in git proper, right? It seems like a kind of important type of tool. Even though git is awesome, we don’t need a monoculture.

> I do wonder, though, if it would have been designed differently if the whole “code forge” sort of application (or whatever GitHub and the like are called) was envisioned at the time.

I would argue that it was purposefully designed in contrast against that model.

GitHub is full of git anti patterns.

Re: We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git

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Post by Aperocky » Fri, Apr 10, 2026, 4:28 AM UTC

esafak wrote: post #37

jillesvangurp wrote: post #27

Why are investors still investing in SAAS products like this? I've heard some investors made rather blunt statements about such investments being a very hard sell to them at this point. Clearly somebody believes differently here. We have AI now. AI tools are pretty handy with Git. I've not manually resolved git conflicts in months now. That's more or less a solved problem for me. Mostly codex creates and manages pull…

If you think like that why invest in software at all; the AI will do everything? Does AI make reading or writing stacked PRs any nicer? No, it does not.

It does though.. you don't have agents that can connect to github or wherever your git mirrors are and comment on PRs?

Re: We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git

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Post by grogenaut » Fri, Apr 10, 2026, 4:28 AM UTC

ergocoder wrote: post #14

MBCook wrote: post #6

Why does it take $17m to beat Git? How will you ever get the network effects needed to get sustained users with a commercial tool? Given Git was created because BitKeeper, a commercial tool, pulled their permission for kernel developers to use their tool aren’t we ignoring a lesson there?

Linus built git in 8 days or something.

Nah, on the 7th day he rested... On the 8th he apologized for his behavior having learned the error of his ways.

On the ninth he roasted some fool.

Re: We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git

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Post by solid_fuel » Fri, Apr 10, 2026, 4:30 AM UTC

vividfrier wrote: post #29

fxtentacle wrote: post #15

I feel like I really need to learn how to raise money. For $17M, one could probably build a vacuum robot prototype that’ll also clean up all of the kids toys and sort LEGO bricks by colour and size. Parents worldwide would love it. But instead, we get a replacement for Git. And I didn’t even bother to click the link because I’m fine with how Git works. On the list of pain points in my life, “what comes after Git” has…

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Have you considered returning to actual software engineering and workflows that tools were designed to support instead of playing the LLM slot machine?