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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 trollied »

jmyeet wrote: post #556
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…

Put another way: the idea didn't raise $17M, the team did. That's usually the case but you can fully expect a pivot in their future. Once open source spreads into an area, it tends to kill (commodify) commercial software in that space. For example, with databases, MySQL and Postgres "won". Yes, there are commercial databases like SQL Server and Oracle but they largely exist through regulatory capture and inertia. It'…

GitHub has already been bettered - gitlab is much better, in my opinion.

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

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Post by compiler-guy »

conartist6 wrote: post #534
myroon5 wrote: post #523

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Step 1: don't pitch from a conartist6 username

It's been my username for 20 years and I'm not changing it to be more corpo-propriate now. I think it makes more sense if you know that my name is Conrad. It's pretty easy to find out who I am in the real world too. For one thing I'm a private pilot and for 10 years I had an airplane personally registered to me, making my name and address a matter of (open) public record.

I don't blame you for not wanting to change your name.

But fundraising is a game to be played, and part of playing the game is building credibility with VCs. It may be that a quirky name helps with that, but probably not.

From the classic baseball movie Bull Durham, where the old veteran is explaining to the newbie how to be successful:

"Your shower shoes have fungus on them. You'll never make it to the bigs with fungus on your shower shoes. Think classy, you'll be classy. If you win 20 in the show, you can let the fungus grow back and the press'll think you're colorful. Until you win 20 in the show, however, it means you are a slob."

If you already have a track record, then you can have a quirky name or personality. Until then, you've got to play the game.

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

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Post by farouqjalabi »

PunchyHamster wrote: post #508
arnvald wrote: post #209

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think it means parallel branches. Normally in git you can use one branch at a time. With agentic coding you want agents to build multiple features at the same time, each in a separate branch

Sooooo git worktree. It's exactly that. One repository dir checked out in different places with different branches.

Not quite, Gitbutler allows you to apply multiple branches to the code base at once. With codebases you will have multiple code bases not one.

for example: It allows me to test coworkers branches with mine without merging or creating new branch.

It has many features that makes it super easy to add patch to any commit in any branch

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

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Post by malicka »

nine_k wrote: post #578

The tool that could replace git must free, ubiquitous, and arguably open-source. This is why I cannot imagine how raising $17M may pay for itself in that case, to say nothing of a 10× return. It may be a great tool, but I'd be very reluctant to use a closed-source solution as a cornerstone of infrastructure.

I would argue it being proprietary would be completely unacceptable, for such a position of importance.

In any case, Git has become tremendously entrenched over the past couple decades. Anything that hopes to replace it would have to be significantly better to break from the inertia Git has. I’m honestly skeptical as to whether this is even possible in the near future. We’re not at all in the same historical moment as when SVN was beaten out.

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

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Post by knorker »

But… why? (pun intended)

They raised $17M to build what appears to be solvable by some git wrapper scripts that could have been written by AI in 5 minutes?

To me the extra "wat" about this is that if I spend the sub-$1 to get the git wrapper scripts, I can get them exactly the way I want them, instead of being mandated to use the commands they made up. A huge gain for AI is the ability to have exactly the software you personally want, even if nobody else wants it just so.

So they are building the exact opposite of the need that AI brings forward. What they are building is not even median software that is in danger of being replaced (e.g. see Cloudflare spending a week to build "a wordpress"), but something that's the most extreme example of AI-will-replace-this that could possibly exist.

Who will buy this?

The only way this makes sense is as a plea for being acqui-hired (and the project dropped).

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

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Post by nickgreg »

schacon wrote: post #454

Hey, this is Scott - the guy in the photo who wrote this post. AMA.

I've been using gitbutler since 09/24. It was the first git GUI I preferred over the command line. Being able to separate local changes into separate branches, drag missed changes into a past commit, etc. made tidy development so much easier. It is a great tool and the hate here is wild. However, I find it less useful when agents code for me. The surgical changes GitButler made so easy became less relevant as agents touch so many files at once. Have you found the same? Whats your vision for how GitButler will make agentic coding better in the way it did human coding? Does it move away from the UI you have now to something else? Does the UI get relegated and it becomes a tool the agent controls? (I liked the agent integration but it didn't feel like an improvement over using codex/CC so I went back to using them directly)

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

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Post by grvdrm »

withinboredom wrote: post #403
grvdrm wrote: post #372

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I love that we are ignoring Git and taking Legos. Anyone have a solution for another annoying problem: 1 missing piece. Somehow got lost halfway through the build.

It’s always under the most annoying thing to move or get to. Under table legs, couches, etc. Also, Lego will send you any missing pieces for free.

Thank you!
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