Codekit 2 is out • Hacker News Board

Re: Codekit 2 is out

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Post by coldtea » Wed, Mar 05, 2014, 5:21 PM UTC

hartator wrote: post #46

wakaflaka wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah and Dropbox is just a GUI skin for rsync.

Sure, you got a point. (I've upvoted you.) In the same time, Dropbox is more towards less savvy user and when you use Dropbox is more for the Cloud hosting than for its rsync capabilities.

Bittorent Sync then, who doesn't have Cloud hosting.

Re: Codekit 2 is out

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Post by AnotherDesigner » Wed, Mar 05, 2014, 5:26 PM UTC

I bought CodeKit 1 a while ago and about a week later he announced he had been working on CodeKit 2. Basically, my purchase was immediately abandonware. He's released no new features and very few updates (just library updates) since then. When I contacted him he wrote a short message back saying there will be no free upgrades to CodeKit 2. Stuff like this just teaches me not to trust these companies, I'm always going to get screwed. So, instead of investing myself to configure CodeKit and make it a part of my development pipeline, I moved over to Grunt. I didn't get to use CodeKit 1 on a single project because I knew it was already abandoned. It took me an hour or so to optimize my grunt file and get used to it but it's all been for the best. Grunt won't abandon me or gouge me for more money. I've also been using Adobe Brackets (and playing with GitHub Atom) a lot lately and it will probably soon replace the expensive Coda 2 that Panic never updates. I've never really been a huge open-source guy but the actions of Mac developers are pushing me that way.

Re: Codekit 2 is out

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Post by criswell » Wed, Mar 05, 2014, 5:56 PM UTC

AnotherDesigner wrote: post #52

I bought CodeKit 1 a while ago and about a week later he announced he had been working on CodeKit 2. Basically, my purchase was immediately abandonware. He's released no new features and very few updates (just library updates) since then. When I contacted him he wrote a short message back saying there will be no free upgrades to CodeKit 2. Stuff like this just teaches me not to trust these companies, I'm always going…

He does offer a discount to get the update. Also, I'm sure you can still use CodeKit 1 if you don't want to pay for the update.

Re: Codekit 2 is out

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Post by lloyddobbler » Wed, Mar 05, 2014, 6:52 PM UTC

Perhaps the best testimonials I've seen on an app.

Re: Codekit 2 is out

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Post by Gracana » Wed, Mar 05, 2014, 8:37 PM UTC

Damn, if I ever need to start taking web development seriously (right now it's only something I do for my little personal projects), I think I will buy this tool. The interface looks very nice, and it seems to integrate and simplify all sorts of useful features and workflows that I've seen described elsewhere (usually at length, with lots of documentation on how to get them working).

Re: Codekit 2 is out

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Post by bulte-rs » Thu, Mar 06, 2014, 8:03 AM UTC

srd wrote: post #13

bulte-rs wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are you kidding me? The testimonials give the whola page a somewhat human touch. I - for one - am now pondering if there really is a story behind the "Mad at me since 2008" stuff about Apple's legal department :P

I had the opposite impression. My initial reaction was "how immature and technological incompetent are your users?". I'm guessing the app is being marketed towards hipster frontend devs.

I'm far from a hipster front end dev I think; but I just happen to like the general 'tone' of this guys (if you're reading, sorry for referring to you as this guy) writing style. So probably I'm not in his target demographic.

Stuff like "Make Panic Jealous" target a really specific group of users (ye-olde average user doesn't know who/what Panic is) but really add flavour to his companies image.

Of course, to each his own. I don't like the writing style in Romeo and Juliet; does that make me a hater of the arts?