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Announcing HashiCorp (a Company for Vagrant)

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Re: Announcing HashiCorp (a Company for Vagrant)

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Post by dekz »

orangethirty wrote: post #35

Use a backpacker for the mascot. It matches what the product does better. Homeless people dont have much stuff. Backpackers have and take their stuff everywhere. Which is the spirit of what you are doing. Have your stuff avaiable everywhere. So, a backpacker.

I'm having trouble understanding your recommendation. Vagrants take ALL of their belongings with them, they have little where else to store any items they. Backpackers couldn't possibly take everything they own with them or they would by definition be Vagrants.

I think having a Vagrant as the mascot for Vagrant is the only obvious option.

Re: Announcing HashiCorp (a Company for Vagrant)

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Post by nigelk »

mitchellh wrote: post #4

I'm here to answer any questions, if you have them. I'm really excited! Fun fact, I first "launched" Vagrant on HN almost exactly 1000 days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1175901

Great news Mitch! Congratulations, and give us a yell if I can help with anything.

Re: Announcing HashiCorp (a Company for Vagrant)

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Post by orangethirty »

dekz wrote: post #51
orangethirty wrote: post #35

Use a backpacker for the mascot. It matches what the product does better. Homeless people dont have much stuff. Backpackers have and take their stuff everywhere. Which is the spirit of what you are doing. Have your stuff avaiable everywhere. So, a backpacker.

I'm having trouble understanding your recommendation. Vagrants take ALL of their belongings with them, they have little where else to store any items they. Backpackers couldn't possibly take everything they own with them or they would by definition be Vagrants. I think having a Vagrant as the mascot for Vagrant is the only obvious option.

Ok, my point is that both take their belogings with them. Backpackers take the stuff they need to travel around. Same as Vagrants, as you mentioned. But, to the market, having a Vagrant as a mascot might be seen in bad taste. Thus, to reduce the chance of rain over his parade, he could potentially just change mascots. That way, people who get easily offended by anything won't have an excuse to say anything. Plus, when this product gets more and more traction, people will question the mascot choice. That's why Frostred Flakes has Tony the Tiger, and not Bad Luck Johnny that lives under a bridge. Its all about perception. Though this is an issue some hacker don't get, because to them the world is black and white. Not saying it is you, of course. Just talking out loud.

Also, why the only obvious option?

Why couldn't it be a Puppy, Cat, Horse, Printer, Cloud, Keyboard, Fish, or anything else? Why the Vagrant? Its not obvious. For all the client know Vagrant might be an acronym or some made up tech name.

Re: Announcing HashiCorp (a Company for Vagrant)

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Post by RDDavies »

mitchellh wrote: post #13
blhack wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

http://vagrantup.com/ A bit of constructive criticism: The "this changes everything" thing has become way, way, overplayed. I saw that and immediately rolled my eyes and stopped reading. It is about at the level of "code ninja" now.

Thanks, I agree that I'm tired of that. The Vagrant website is being redesigned at the moment, so that'll disappear shortly.

As an avid supporter of the project, shoot an email if you want a Web dev to build it out for you :).

Re: Announcing HashiCorp (a Company for Vagrant)

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Post by minikomi »

cheapsteak wrote: post #50
minikomi wrote: post #47

Just a heads up: Your favicon is almost identical to http://gree-corp.com/ , big social game maker in Japan.

It's a cube Surely you can't trademark a cube?

Fair enough. It's maybe not such a problem in the U.S. where the logo isn't in the media much, but to me the blue hexagon immediately triggered recognition. I'm only passing on the info.

Re: Announcing HashiCorp (a Company for Vagrant)

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Post by stevvooe »

mitchellh wrote: post #8
paulsmith wrote: post #7

Can the first order of business be a renaming so the mascot of a useful and widely-used product isn't a homeless person?

The project won't be renamed, but it will be rebranded in the next few weeks. In the three years the project has existed I have only gotten two or three complaints about the mascot, but everyone has agreed that "Vagrant" itself is fine. Note that I've talked up to some pretty high levels of US government using Vagrant, and most are okay with it. One [fairly large/visible] organization within the US government has sai…

What organization within the government is so vain that they can't use a great piece of technology due to a mascot?

Re: Announcing HashiCorp (a Company for Vagrant)

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Post by semanticist »

nirvana wrote: post #16
dmackerman wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sorry, but that logo is so...1998.

That's what I love about it. It is a very classic logo. It evokes for me the idea that it was designed for a high tech company in a sci-fi film. Like Cyberdyne Systems or TYRELL Corp.

I was instantly reminded of the OCP - Omni Consumer Products - logo from Robocop, and yes, I also like the slightly retro-future feel.

As much as it's entirely irrelevant to Vagrant-as-a-tool itself, I'd love to see a whole 'brand identity' in the same theme. It's a small thing, but it makes me slightly happier when the tools I use have a little bit of character to them. (See also: Github & Octocats)

Re: Announcing HashiCorp (a Company for Vagrant)

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Post by peralta »

mitchellh wrote: post #4

I'm here to answer any questions, if you have them. I'm really excited! Fun fact, I first "launched" Vagrant on HN almost exactly 1000 days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1175901

First of all: congrats! I have been using Vagrant for a while now and it's how we manage the development and test environments (+200) in the company I work at (tuenti.com).

It is still not clear to me what the business model will be: will you be charging for selling extra providers (like VMWare Fusion), support contracts or ...?

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