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

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

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Post by bonesss »

fontain wrote: post #46
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.

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

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Post by nikolay »

The only security incident I've had in my career was due to Git Butler - it committed temporary files into GitHub without me explicitly approving it! Of course, it was a private repository, but still, it became impossible to delete those secrets because there were plenty of commits afterward. Given the large file tree and many updated files in the commit, it wasn't apparent that those folders got sneaked into the commit.

So, I really hope security incidents don't come after Git!

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

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Post by pjerem »

debarshri wrote: post #100
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…

Thing i learned about raising capital it, you need to build or have a network. Thats YC is great, accelerators, incubators help you do that. Network and story you tell. Also, every stage you raise, you have to make sure the folks you raise from help you craft the narrative for thr next round. I think if you have a healthy busy growing well, you shouldnt raise unless you have ambition and urge to go faster. Irony of t…

> I think if you have a healthy busy growing well, you shouldnt raise unless you have ambition and urge to go faster.

My previous employer was like this. A 20yo company with a nice always increasing ytoy growth. The CEO told for 20 years that he would never raise any money. It was an incredible place to work : nice compensation, product and consumer centered, we had time and means to do the right things.

Until the CEO changed his mind and raised money anyway. But we didn't have to fear anything because those investors were very different and not like the other greedy ones.

Well I'm not working there anymore for a hella lot of reasons that are just the same as everywhere else.

But at least the CEO who was already rich is now incredibly rich.

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

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Post by ajkavanagh »

orbifold wrote: post #44
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?

GitHub.

Jujutsu has changed how I work with git. Switching tasks is just "jj edit " or "JJ new ". The only thing it can't do properly is git worktrees (it doesn't replicate the .git dir to the worktrees, breaking tooling that relies on git) but there is a (old) issue relating to it. Not sure on the priority, though.

Anyway, YMMV, but I love it.

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

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Post by tmountain »

I personally feel that:

1) Git is fine

2) I would not want to replace critical open source tooling with something backed by investor capital from its inception.

Sure, it will be “open source “, but with people throwing money behind it, there’s a plan to extract value from the user base from day one.

I’m tired of being “the product”.

Critical open source tooltips by should spring from the community, not from corporate sponsorship.

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

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Post by reverius42 »

bee_rider wrote: post #18
im_down_w_otp wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Apparently it takes $17M and a whole team full of people to do what one guy with a chip on his shoulder could do for free.

On one hand that’s true. On the other, the “one guy” there is, like, the guy who does impressive projects “just as a hobby.”

Yeah, it's really burying the lede to call Linus Torvalds "one guy with a chip on his shoulder".

"Why fund $17M towards development of an operating system, when Linux was made by one guy with a chip on his shoulder?"

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

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Post by progx »

jgauth wrote: post #77
tiffanyh wrote: post #42

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 th…

Makes sense to me. The new coding agents are drastically changing software development, and I think there's a lot of space for innovation in how version control tooling works in this new world.

Why should ai need this? A linear backlog is enough, a cache, for everything else they can create it new in a short time.

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

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Post by flomo »

choudharism wrote: post #107
flomo wrote: post #99

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Why is nobody solving actual problems anymore? Let me just state the obvious. Of all the major problems of society, sorting legos isn't one. If you disagree, try emerging from the cellar.

Replacing git is?

Successfully would be big business, because everyone and everyone and the F1000 uses git. Or at least it could more of a feature than a product, and gets merged into some other VC company, or some Jira feature or etc.

Who really wants cheap lego vacuums? Basement-dwellers who are getting yelled at by their mom? Not a good market.

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