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I quit my job to work full time on my open source project

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Re: I quit my job to work full time on my open source project

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Post by quickthrower2 »

tpmp313459 wrote: post #9

open sourcing is utter waste of time. What do you still working for a big coporates companies in free of cost. This is how 70% of open sourcing literally works. You work for developers who are working in firms and often firms also fork your projects. Before 4 years I've inspected iOS whats app bundle they were used lot of open source projects. I am not about contributing to Linux Systems indeed projects copied by App…

Not really. You just need to be strategic. $5/m for example would be reasonable for a hosted version of this, maybe add some AI touches for pro users, and then have thousands just expense it as it is well below thresholds, or just pay for it themselves.

Re: I quit my job to work full time on my open source project

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Post by outcoldman »

I keep my shell history in sqlite database since 2017. Around 120k records at this point. Never synced history from the work laptops. Only personal history.

In 2017 wrote my own bash script (later optimized for zsh) to just record everything in sqlite with hooks on prompt. [1]

I mostly work right now on Mac, don't need to support Linux anymore, so wrote an app for Mac, that syncs the history over iCloud, and has a GUI interface. [2]

Anyway, storing years of shell history somewhere, where you can do complex searches, and actually find some magic command you run a few years ago, is priceless.

- [1] https://www.outcoldman.com/en/archive/2017/07/19/dbhist/

- [2] https://loshadki.app/shellhistory/

Re: I quit my job to work full time on my open source project

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Post by lanza »

I love the idea of Atuin but it's just way too slow with large history files. I've synced my history on my own for the past decade and have like 170k lines and the history search the ctrl-r search just crawls.

I don't need most of the history, but there's 0 chance in hell I'm auditing that many lines to decide what I need and what I don't need.

Re: I quit my job to work full time on my open source project

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Post by ipaddr »

quickthrower2 wrote: post #11
tpmp313459 wrote: post #9

open sourcing is utter waste of time. What do you still working for a big coporates companies in free of cost. This is how 70% of open sourcing literally works. You work for developers who are working in firms and often firms also fork your projects. Before 4 years I've inspected iOS whats app bundle they were used lot of open source projects. I am not about contributing to Linux Systems indeed projects copied by App…

Not really. You just need to be strategic. $5/m for example would be reasonable for a hosted version of this, maybe add some AI touches for pro users, and then have thousands just expense it as it is well below thresholds, or just pay for it themselves.

5 a month with 1,000 users is 5,000 a month. You add in the costs and taxes and you are left with supporting a thousand users that you can't afford to hire for. If you had 2,000 users you might be able to afford someone but now you have to support 2,000 users.

If prices were tripled you could afford to staff for now and the future (r/d).

When small you need to go higher. When you are big you can use size to scale.

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