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This website seriously bombed their first impression. Oddly unspecific name? Check. Low contrast? Check. Generic illustrations like all hipster startups? Che

This website seriously bombed their first impression. Oddly unspecific name? Check. Low contrast? Check. Generic illustrations like all hipster startups? Check. Expects me to trust some random website with a root shell? Check. "Decentralization" & "Governance"? Of course. True crypto bros. "Whitepaper"? You bet. And I still have no clue what specifically they plan to do. It's something about paying for open source, but then again we've seen many unsuccessful attempts there recently.

fellowniusmonk 5y ago
As a developer that uses "brew" I am in the target audience, I got almost instantly that this is "homebrew that pays the open source maintainers via cryptocurrency, created by the original creator of homebrew." I do wish they put almost that exact sentence at the top.
- chrischen 5y ago
  I read about 70% (shotgun style) and did not get that, and I use homebrew.
  - gtf21 5y ago
    Same, I was skimming through looking for some pointer as to what this is, but all I got was that they thought it was hard maintaining OSS (which it is, of course) -- none the wiser as to what it was until the parent comment summarised it.
- tonyhb 5y ago
  For me it wasn't instant and every part of the copy raised more questions: > The tools that build the Internet have steeped too long. It’s time for a fresh brew. What tools? The internet as in... HTTP? Servers? Caching? LLVM? DNS? BGP? > We’re uniquely placed to have tangible impact on all aspects of software development and we intend to. I'm not sure what this means. Hugely scoped. If I spend a few minutes reading the copy, trying to gauge intent, and interpret what they're saying I get an idea of the pitch. But, not how it works. Not the product itself. It says it "sets my stack up right". I'm not sure what that means given it demo's placing a binary into ./bin. The copy is only a story about payment. But nothing else about how that works. Plus, you're more likely to read the highlights, see stuff about a DAO, and write it off as another fad.
- crooked-v 5y ago
  Pays... how? Where does it come from? If anything that makes me less comfortable with it, considering how 99% of what I see advertised to be crypto-related is either a direct scam or a pump-and-dump scheme.
rstarast 5y ago
.xyz domain? Check. This seems to be largely the same pitch that oscoin.io / monadic.xyz / radicle.xyz had back in 2017. They must have burned, what, 10 million dollars by now? I'm really curious what the business model behind an outfit like this is...
- mwarkentin 5y ago
  For now, raising $8M... https://www.binance.com/en/blog/ecosystem/binance-labs-leads-$8-million-seed-funding-round-for-tea-421499824684903608 https://www.binance.com/en/blog/ecosystem/binance-labs-leads...
weego 5y ago
I don't know what it is or how the abstractions allow me granular control, but nothing with a DAO will be adopted by any business I have guidance over.
justaj 5y ago
You forgot perhaps the biggest of red flags: sh <(curl tea.xyz)

fellowniusmonk 5y ago

As a developer that uses "brew" I am in the target audience, I got almost instantly that this is "homebrew that pays the open source maintainers via cryptocurrency, created by the original creator of homebrew." I do wish they put almost that exact sentence at the top.

chrischen 5y ago
I read about 70% (shotgun style) and did not get that, and I use homebrew.
- gtf21 5y ago
  Same, I was skimming through looking for some pointer as to what this is, but all I got was that they thought it was hard maintaining OSS (which it is, of course) -- none the wiser as to what it was until the parent comment summarised it.
tonyhb 5y ago
For me it wasn't instant and every part of the copy raised more questions: > The tools that build the Internet have steeped too long. It’s time for a fresh brew. What tools? The internet as in... HTTP? Servers? Caching? LLVM? DNS? BGP? > We’re uniquely placed to have tangible impact on all aspects of software development and we intend to. I'm not sure what this means. Hugely scoped. If I spend a few minutes reading the copy, trying to gauge intent, and interpret what they're saying I get an idea of the pitch. But, not how it works. Not the product itself. It says it "sets my stack up right". I'm not sure what that means given it demo's placing a binary into ./bin. The copy is only a story about payment. But nothing else about how that works. Plus, you're more likely to read the highlights, see stuff about a DAO, and write it off as another fad.
crooked-v 5y ago
Pays... how? Where does it come from? If anything that makes me less comfortable with it, considering how 99% of what I see advertised to be crypto-related is either a direct scam or a pump-and-dump scheme.

rstarast 5y ago

.xyz domain? Check. This seems to be largely the same pitch that oscoin.io / monadic.xyz / radicle.xyz had back in 2017. They must have burned, what, 10 million dollars by now? I'm really curious what the business model behind an outfit like this is...

mwarkentin 5y ago
For now, raising $8M... https://www.binance.com/en/blog/ecosystem/binance-labs-leads-$8-million-seed-funding-round-for-tea-421499824684903608 https://www.binance.com/en/blog/ecosystem/binance-labs-leads...

weego 5y ago

I don't know what it is or how the abstractions allow me granular control, but nothing with a DAO will be adopted by any business I have guidance over.

justaj 5y ago

You forgot perhaps the biggest of red flags: sh <(curl tea.xyz)