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I can't find anything that explains what Tipe actually is. It's a plugin-based, customizable SaaS? Their GitHub page is some confusing bullshit where they seem

I can't find anything that explains what Tipe actually is. It's a plugin-based, customizable SaaS? Their GitHub page is some confusing bullshit where they seem to have taken the repo of a completely unrelated Angular animation library that has been inactive for 6 years and converted it to be Tipe, presumably to make it seem as if Tipe has earned 2.1k stars when it was actually the Angular project that earned those stars. They claim to be open-source but I see zero source code. Maybe the source is in one of the two different CLIs that seem to exist? But the one that actually seems documented and usable hasn't had a commit in 10 months.

Scotups 6y ago
yea, you're absolutely right! I am the author of that said animation lib, ngFx, from years ago. Was actually my first open source project. When we started tipe years ago, we sunsetted that project and used the stars to generate hype for tipe. We were way ahead of ourselves :). Because we're in private release, all of our open source is private on github right now. Once we're not longer in private release, it will be public.
- woah 6y ago
  Seems... questionable
  - Scotups 6y ago
    I agree. We didn't intend to post on HN until everything was public. Someone else posted it, so I'm here rolling with it.
    - masonhensley 6y ago
      I think you are missing the point. Seems questionable to repurpose the repo to leverage the stars regardless of whether you posted it here or someone else did.
      - Scotups 6y ago
        oh, yes, that was one of many mistakes we made early on. As we move to a public release, that is on our list to clean up.
        deleted 6y ago
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        Ericson2314 6y ago
        GitHub should tie stars to commit hashes to avoid this sort of crap. Your repos stars is calculated from the started commits that are in this repo but not any it's forked from, on the default branch. Still prone to abuse from transferring repo to credit somebody else, but the original repo owner would have to sign off on the transfer at least.
        Scotups 6y ago
        I am the original repo owner. I invite you all to try tipe for your selves. Signup
        sk5t 6y ago
        But... you did this intentionally--when it would have been easier and simpler to not do so? Doesn't really fit the mold of "clean it up later" chores.
      - ColoradoDev 6y ago
        It seems like fraud.
      - shard972 6y ago
        Probably right down there on the list of questionable things a startup did to get funding.
- paulryanrogers 6y ago
  > ... we sunsetted that project and used the stars to generate hype for tipe. How common is this? Seems like fraud to intentionally swap out a project within a repo for something very different to repurpose a reputation metric.
ErikAugust 6y ago
Hey, at least you got $1000 in seed money for every fake star you got for the repo.

Scotups 6y ago

yea, you're absolutely right! I am the author of that said animation lib, ngFx, from years ago. Was actually my first open source project. When we started tipe years ago, we sunsetted that project and used the stars to generate hype for tipe. We were way ahead of ourselves :). Because we're in private release, all of our open source is private on github right now. Once we're not longer in private release, it will be public.

woah 6y ago
Seems... questionable
- Scotups 6y ago
  I agree. We didn't intend to post on HN until everything was public. Someone else posted it, so I'm here rolling with it.
  - masonhensley 6y ago
    I think you are missing the point. Seems questionable to repurpose the repo to leverage the stars regardless of whether you posted it here or someone else did.
    - Scotups 6y ago
      oh, yes, that was one of many mistakes we made early on. As we move to a public release, that is on our list to clean up.
      - deleted 6y ago
        [deleted]
      - Ericson2314 6y ago
        GitHub should tie stars to commit hashes to avoid this sort of crap. Your repos stars is calculated from the started commits that are in this repo but not any it's forked from, on the default branch. Still prone to abuse from transferring repo to credit somebody else, but the original repo owner would have to sign off on the transfer at least.
        Scotups 6y ago
        I am the original repo owner. I invite you all to try tipe for your selves. Signup
      - sk5t 6y ago
        But... you did this intentionally--when it would have been easier and simpler to not do so? Doesn't really fit the mold of "clean it up later" chores.
    - ColoradoDev 6y ago
      It seems like fraud.
    - shard972 6y ago
      Probably right down there on the list of questionable things a startup did to get funding.
paulryanrogers 6y ago
> ... we sunsetted that project and used the stars to generate hype for tipe. How common is this? Seems like fraud to intentionally swap out a project within a repo for something very different to repurpose a reputation metric.

ErikAugust 6y ago

Hey, at least you got $1000 in seed money for every fake star you got for the repo.