So like: not to hijack thread -- but is there any way to post about what you've built on HN without making people angry if its vibe coded? What's the etiquette there because I have a thingy I am going to post soon (open source, non commerical) and don't really want to be ripped apart by HN. I am a software engineer but doubt that matters if it's all vibe coded.
Show HN: Gitdot – A better GitHub. Open-source, written in Rust
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Re: Show HN: Gitdot – A better GitHub. Open-source, written in Rust
#132We've built a better SpaceX! says kid with cardboard rocket in the backyard. In Rust we trust! Common man, you're not even 5% of a Github replacement. Don't act like one. You've built a Git web UI with accounts, the easy part. > Building software is still hard You don't say.
"Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something."
"Don't be snarky."
"Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."
Obviously this is a project at an early stage and the title expresses what they're working on, not a claim to 100% feature parity.
Re: Show HN: Gitdot – A better GitHub. Open-source, written in Rust
#133Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is unfair, and the vibe-coded swipe is unnecessary. Why would anyone continue working on a project if it's not seeing any adoption or interest? Many large successful apps were borne out of sharp pivots - Slack comes to mind.
I would perhaps be less inclined to make a point out of the vibe coding if they had not literally put "anti-AI" in the title as a key point of their marketing (although Dang removed it). I think it's absolutely fair to point out the hypocrisy and disingenuity of marketing a vibe-coded product in that way.
It is entirely reasonable that you could use AI to build a product with no AI features. Why is that hypocritical? Especially for a product like a GitHub -- it's a reasonable take to say "AI is useful tool to produce code, but I don't want 851 random "Ask AI!" adornments all over my website when I just want to read the code."
Re: Show HN: Gitdot – A better GitHub. Open-source, written in Rust
#134Please, stop using "written in Rust" as some kind of advantage or killer feature.
Re: Show HN: Gitdot – A better GitHub. Open-source, written in Rust
#135Earlier quoted context omitted.
fair critique. i'll refrain from it in the future. but i will say that the point of our post isn't to really sell anyone here or on anything. we kinda know that our product as-is isn't ready to use at real scale (we lack issues, prs, ci, gotta fix a lot of bugs, etc.) we did just want to sincerely share what we built. and rust is a part of that, we chose it cause we wanted to learn it and we then quickly found out th…
While we're critiquing, the demographics that I'm part of has trouble taking someone seriously who is too lazy or sloppy to use the Shift key and complete punctutation.
The demographics I'm part of have trouble taking seriously people who yell at kids who live two blocks away when someone from one block away wanders onto the yard the kids are playing in.
Re: Show HN: Gitdot – A better GitHub. Open-source, written in Rust
#136is anyone else absolutely sick of hearing about rust?
Yeah, what I did was reading about it instead, like, on purpose.
Re: Show HN: Gitdot – A better GitHub. Open-source, written in Rust
#137So like: not to hijack thread -- but is there any way to post about what you've built on HN without making people angry if its vibe coded? What's the etiquette there because I have a thingy I am going to post soon (open source, non commerical) and don't really want to be ripped apart by HN. I am a software engineer but doubt that matters if it's all vibe coded.
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Re: Show HN: Gitdot – A better GitHub. Open-source, written in Rust
#138Please, stop using "written in Rust" as some kind of advantage or killer feature.
This.
Re: Show HN: Gitdot – A better GitHub. Open-source, written in Rust
#139> What is a bit unique is: 1) we built it in Rust The first unique characteristic is that it was built in Rust? Why does it matter from a user perspective? I was expecting the first point to be something that would convince me to check it out. Unless the goal is to find people to collaborate on building the software. I got a bit confused. Looking good regardless :)
I am tired of "built in Rust" as an argument, you are spot on, it should not matter. But you are shooting right at Rust culture here haha
And I'm tired of the "tired of 'built in Rust'" arguments because it also shouldn't matter if someone happens to describe their project that you didn't have to go out of your way to talk about in a way that bothers you. But I'm shooting right at the "tired of 'built in Rust'" culture here.
You can take these arguments to an unbounded level of depth; someone can be tired of my responses to the responses to so me someone happening to care about something different than them. It's all equally silly, and if you're convinced that your level of depth is reasonable but the others aren't, I'd highly recommend trying to think about why you're so confident that your opinion is important but ones that come after aren't, because it's very unclear to anyone who doesn't already agree with you, and that's usually a sign that there's no point in saying it at all.
Re: Show HN: Gitdot – A better GitHub. Open-source, written in Rust
#140Please, stop using "written in Rust" as some kind of advantage or killer feature.
Well, it probably is an advantage over the same product written in say C++, all other variables held the same - just not a big one.