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Yes to all that. And GitLab the company was only founded in 2014 (OSS project started in 2011) and ran through YC in 2015, seven years after GitHub launched.

Didn't say you were wrong. It was just missing the Xamarin step in the sequence of companies, and arguably Xamarin was the bigger milestone than Ximian.

I'd bet that less people had their source code on git in 2008 than the number of developers using the various coding agents today. And the open-source project that we published today hooks into the existing workflow for those developers, in Claude Code and in Gemini CLI. Time will tell the rest. We will publish regular updates and you can judge us on those results.

Makes sense, and we definitely will have more technical posts coming soon and on a regular basis. And I am German, I am used to snark. :P Joking aside, thanks for the response and appreciate your work as a mod!

Chris was also CEO from 2008 to 2012. Tom had 2012 to 2014.

Nat's company Xamarin was acquired by Microsoft in 2016.

HockeyApp wasn't A/B testing, but a platform for iPhone, Mac, Android, and Windows Phone developers to distribute their beta version (like what TestFlight is today to the App Store), collect crash reports (like what Sentry is today), user feedback, and basic analytics for developers.

Time will tell how small that corner is. ;)

Yes, definitely something we are thinking of.

Fixed. It's Cursor 2.0 and Composer 1.5, mixed that up when editing the post last night.

Founder here. I built commercial insurance software for Windows 95 in the 1990s, driver assistant systems at Mercedes and at Bosch in the early 2000s, dozens of iPhone apps as contractor, a startup called HockeyApp (acquired by Microsoft), and various smaller projects, mostly in Ruby on Rails. And of course, when I left Microsoft & GitHub, 10 years of green boxes were removed from my GitHub profile.

Only four: Chris, Tom, Nat, and Thomas. Last one is me. ;)

Thanks. New startup, new approach.

I am here. What did I not bother with? I wrote the blog post and it has all the details.