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What if you made a unified installer that installs those six tools configured in a certain default way?

• ibejoeb 7y ago
  Certainly there are plenty programs that are designed modularly, componentized, plugin-based, compositional, whatever... They just never feel as good as purpose-built apps with good workflows. If you know of one that does, please do forward it on because I'd love the inspiration. I think Keybase does what it intends to do, which is to make PKI accessible to non-experts and to cultivate a community of users achieve the usefulness that network effect affords. If you're really just looking for encryption and signing, encrypted filesystems, encrypted chat, distributed filesystems, and you're an expert, you have the tools you need.
  • asdkhadsj 7y ago
    > They just never feel as good as purpose-built apps with good workflows. If you know of one that does, please do forward it on because I'd love the inspiration. I think the flaw here is that you're (likely) comparing purpose-built with unrelated unix-like apps. What could have been done here with Keybase, is a purpose built app composed of unix-like tools, all controlled and implemented towards the purpose-built app. Aka the IM would be unique if you wanted it, or bundled with the FS, but both would be first-class Keybase citizens. Unfortunately most companies don't put the time or effort into letting people consume parts of their offerings. It's all or nothing. Which is the complaint here, imo.