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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 cryptocurre
by 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 agoI read about 70% (shotgun style) and did not get that, and I use homebrew.
- gtf21 5y agoSame, 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 agoFor 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 agoPays... 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.