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Love everything written here, but honestly you need at least a video showing something... anything... or all you have here is an idea. I remember getting excit

Love everything written here, but honestly you need at least a video showing something... anything... or all you have here is an idea. I remember getting excited when Rasmus announced kod and nothing came of that so I wont get my hopes up this time until there is something beyond a few paragraphs.

loa_in_ 6y ago
An idea that already showed up in _the_ community capable of making it a reality. There's enough talented people here that will be interested in doing this that it will happen sooner than later
rasmusfabbe 6y ago
Hello! Wow, cool to hear you followed along with Kod. It did ship and was used by a bunch of people. Its code is open source and still up on the github: https://github.com/rsms/kod https://github.com/rsms/kod More importantly Kod was a side project I did for fun during an extended vacation. I remember publishing the first version on a December evening while visting my Mom on the countryside of Sweden. The next morning the program had been downloaded 25000 times and I was like "wat?!" A really fun little side project. Playbit is something quite different to me. It is an _idea_ more so than a _solution_, it is a concept and path to a new alternative for software creating and sharing which I deeply believe in. Playbit is the beginning of a materialization of years of discussions, thoughts, experiences and research. I hope that I will have something more concrete to share soon. We have gotten so used to quick quick quick low-end web apps turning things around in a few months that I fear expectations on all software has been affected; Playbit is a long-term project and not something that will be "done" in a few months. Then again, I might screw this up and it might die as a concept and some half-written code. I guess we will see :–)
- whywhywhywhy 6y ago
  Thanks for the response, definitely excited to see where you take this and the videos you tweeted looked interesting. I'm certainly all for long term projects :)

loa_in_ 6y ago

An idea that already showed up in _the_ community capable of making it a reality. There's enough talented people here that will be interested in doing this that it will happen sooner than later

rasmusfabbe 6y ago

Hello! Wow, cool to hear you followed along with Kod. It did ship and was used by a bunch of people. Its code is open source and still up on the github: https://github.com/rsms/kod https://github.com/rsms/kod More importantly Kod was a side project I did for fun during an extended vacation. I remember publishing the first version on a December evening while visting my Mom on the countryside of Sweden. The next morning the program had been downloaded 25000 times and I was like "wat?!" A really fun little side project. Playbit is something quite different to me. It is an _idea_ more so than a _solution_, it is a concept and path to a new alternative for software creating and sharing which I deeply believe in. Playbit is the beginning of a materialization of years of discussions, thoughts, experiences and research. I hope that I will have something more concrete to share soon. We have gotten so used to quick quick quick low-end web apps turning things around in a few months that I fear expectations on all software has been affected; Playbit is a long-term project and not something that will be "done" in a few months. Then again, I might screw this up and it might die as a concept and some half-written code. I guess we will see :–)

whywhywhywhy 6y ago
Thanks for the response, definitely excited to see where you take this and the videos you tweeted looked interesting. I'm certainly all for long term projects :)