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This is super impressive - both the pedigree of the team and the approach you took.

The funny thing is - when I first saw ploy, I didn't take it very seriously since so many of the signals that used to signify quality (decent design, copy, hard technical problems) are easy to fake. Plus the "grow while you sleep" space is crowded with weak players.

I wonder what the new markers of quality will be, which would separate the hand-crafted (to the extent possible) work v/s slop.

Maybe I'm missing something. If I use `git status --short` or `git log --oneline`, I see output similar to your tool's.

I can't tell if this is satire or not.

Have you considered storing it on the blockchain instead, so this way it is immutable and permanent? /s

Electron was originally known as "Atom Shell"!

Having built desktop software - I found doing things cross platform is hard for various reasons.

1. You can't use any specialized features or APIs in one OS unless you implement it in all others.

2. If you use Electron you're basically building a webpage, which can only be taken so far in terms of user experience. While teams like VS Code have pushed the limits, you still can't do what this app is doing.

3. Increased test/QA surface area which becomes difficult - especially supporting Linux - which have relatively fewer users but you still have to properly invest time into supporting it, something startups cannot do.

I really don't see the point of this product, but there are plenty of small to medium teams which are mac only, and it's better to be an interesting niche rather than yet another collaboration and huddle-type software.

Hi! I'm Andy and I have 12 years experience in a wide variety of roles - web applications with a variety of technologies and desktop applications and networking applications with C++.

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