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We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git

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Re: We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git

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Post by pas »

latexr wrote: post #190
fxtentacle wrote: post #15

I feel like I really need to learn how to raise money. For $17M, one could probably build a vacuum robot prototype that’ll also clean up all of the kids toys and sort LEGO bricks by colour and size. Parents worldwide would love it. But instead, we get a replacement for Git. And I didn’t even bother to click the link because I’m fine with how Git works. On the list of pain points in my life, “what comes after Git” has…

> Why is nobody solving actual problems anymore? Because solving problems isn’t the goal, the goal is money (and sometimes a little fame) with the least possible effort, and software can be changed on a whim and is very cheap to manufacture and distribute and “fix in flight”, it’s the perfect vehicle for those who are impatient and don’t really care about understanding and studying a need.

people love solving problems, but most solutions are not VC fundable (fortunately/unfortunately)

sometimes it's just wait until your kid grows up and learns to put the LEGO away

there's a lot of people working on hard problems that are pretty far from software

being cynical about early stage software (and any company that is overpromising like Theranos, Nikola, etc..) is warranted, but also money as a reward motivates a lot of innovation (PV panels, batteries, EUV lithography)

Re: We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git

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Post by mauzybwy »

qrobit wrote: post #295
nikolay wrote: post #122

The only security incident I've had in my career was due to Git Butler - it committed temporary files into GitHub without me explicitly approving it! Of course, it was a private repository, but still, it became impossible to delete those secrets because there were plenty of commits afterward. Given the large file tree and many updated files in the commit, it wasn't apparent that those folders got sneaked into the com…

Just a reminder that even if you managed to amend those commits and force-push, the commits would still exist and will be addressable given the hash is known.

Couldn’t you expire the reflog entry and prune the db to remove it entirely?

Re: We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git

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Post by ivanjermakov »

Orygin wrote: post #326
qrobit wrote: post #295

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just a reminder that even if you managed to amend those commits and force-push, the commits would still exist and will be addressable given the hash is known.

Can't they be purged if they are dangling and the housekeeping is ran?

https://stackoverflow.com/a/47771133/8662097

Re: We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git

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Post by hansmayer »

"Gitbutler", really rolls off the tongue, doesn´t it :) Oh and the irony of raising $17M to "replace" a tool which kinda...does not need replacing at all? How about replacing some of the entshittified services, like Google Workspace? Now that would be worth the $17M raised.

Re: We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git

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Post by vidarh »

vanviegen wrote: post #308
phs318u wrote: post #267

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As any DBA worth their salt knows. Index the many valued column, not the column with few discrete values.

Are you sure that's a good strategy if every unique index value requires you to buy a physical container?

Radix sort. Decide how many containers you're fine with, and group accordingly.

Re: We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git

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Post by Scholmo »

fxtentacle wrote: post #15

I feel like I really need to learn how to raise money. For $17M, one could probably build a vacuum robot prototype that’ll also clean up all of the kids toys and sort LEGO bricks by colour and size. Parents worldwide would love it. But instead, we get a replacement for Git. And I didn’t even bother to click the link because I’m fine with how Git works. On the list of pain points in my life, “what comes after Git” has…

Yes!

I mean who tf gives some small team millions to put some Nvidia GPU into space and thinking we will have market disrupting GPU clusters in space in 10 years?!

There are so many low hanging fruits in IT Industry to just being solved.

Even just having something like well build, open smart home products whould have been disruptive years ago (until someone like ikea decides to enter that space).

Re: We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git

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Post by Dylan16807 »

vanviegen wrote: post #308
phs318u wrote: post #267

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As any DBA worth their salt knows. Index the many valued column, not the column with few discrete values.

Are you sure that's a good strategy if every unique index value requires you to buy a physical container?

You can put a few shapes into one container and it's still much faster than searching color-first.

Re: We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git

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Post by ninjagoo »

aleph_minus_one wrote: post #262
fxtentacle wrote: post #15

I feel like I really need to learn how to raise money. For $17M, one could probably build a vacuum robot prototype that’ll also clean up all of the kids toys and sort LEGO bricks by colour and size. Parents worldwide would love it. But instead, we get a replacement for Git. And I didn’t even bother to click the link because I’m fine with how Git works. On the list of pain points in my life, “what comes after Git” has…

> But instead, we get a replacement for Git. [...] Why is nobody solving actual problems anymore? While I personally doubt that for $17M one could build such a vacuum robot prototype (for a vacuum cleaner company, investing this amount of money - if it worked - would be a rounding error), I will rather analyze the point that you raised: It is a very common situation that the workflows of companies is deeply ingrained…

> While I personally doubt that for $17M one could build such a vacuum robot prototype (for a vacuum cleaner company, investing this amount of money - if it worked - would be a rounding error)

The first Roomba prototype from iRobot was two weeks and $10k in 1999 [1], and S. C. Johnson's funding was up to $2M [1]. The public estimate for total pre-launch program cost is $3M. [2]

In 2026 $, that's about $19k, $4M and $6M respectively.

[1] https://nymag.com/vindicated/2016/11/roombas-long-bumpy-path...

[2] https://dancingwithroomba.com/funding-tertill/

Re: We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git

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Post by mblode »

treeblah wrote: post #338

Claims about “what comes after git” aside, I really like the idea of virtual branches. Worktrees have a pitfall IMO that they don’t allow you to test changes in a running local env, meaning I need to commit the changes, close the worktree, and checkout the branch on my primary workspace to verify. Gitbutler virtual branches OTOH appear to provide branch independence for agents/commits, while simultaneously allowing m…

I created a cli called spotlight-testing to solve this pitfall with worktrees. I hope it helps! https://github.com/mblode/spotlight-testing

Re: We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git

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Post by Dylan16807 »

RamblingCTO wrote: post #300
Liftyee wrote: post #277

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As someone who makes things it always confuses me when millions just disappear whenever a company or government contractor makes things. Give me $17M and I'll build a vacuum robot prototype in under 2 years, I can't imagine 10 engineers getting paid $100+k/year can't do it in less time? Tooling is expensive, but not THAT expensive...

You sure? You ever ran a business? Prototyping costs, machines, licenses, overhead etc. etc.

The prototyping and machine costs are easily under a million. It's one custom-built vacuum.

You can do it with 0-3 digits of license cost too.

There's no sane way the business overhead more than doubles things.

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