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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 »

ipaddr wrote: post #19
quickthrower2 wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

$5 a month, the only support you get is the ability to cancel :-). However I kind of agree, given that this has sensitive data perhaps, so customers might get annoying about that, charge a bit more.

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

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Post by thekashifmalik »

outcoldman wrote: post #15

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 GU…

Do you know any way to accomplish the same thing but keeping the history in plaintext? Would love to still be able to run SQL over it.

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

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Post by ctur »

While I doubt I'd quit my day job for it, over the past couple of years I've been poking at my own database-backed shell history. The key requirements for me were that it be extremely fast and that it support syncing across multiple systems.

The former is easy(ish); the latter is trickier since I didn't want to provide a hosted service but there aren't easily usable APIs like s3 that are "bring your own wallet" that could be used. So I punted and made it directory based and compatible with Dropbox and similar shared storage.

Being able to quickly search history, including tricks like 'show me the last 50 commands I ran in this directory that contained `git`' has been quite useful for my own workflows, and performance is quite fine on my ~400k history across multiple machines starting around 2011. (pxhist is able to import your history file so you can maintain that continuity)

https://github.com/chipturner/pxhist

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

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Post by ta988 »

lanza wrote: post #17

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.

remove duplicates, remove trivial commands like cat, less , more, cp etc

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

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Post by the_arun »

What is the security of this?

1. If someone steals my laptop & breaks in, can they get access to all my history

2. After breaking, if they run `atuin key` will get them the key for my history which they can use from any device (if they know the userid)

3. If you are running servers passing passwords as command line arguments in that device, they have all that.

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