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> I’m ___, founder and CEO of Warp, and am excited to show you Warp, a fast Rust-based terminal To be honest - it feels weird seeing a company launch a free te

> I’m ___, founder and CEO of Warp, and am excited to show you Warp, a fast Rust-based terminal To be honest - it feels weird seeing a company launch a free terminal, in 2022. How will the company make money? How long will this tool be around for? How will this company degrade the experience, or my privacy, so they can make money? I also don't know how to square my thoughts on the above with the need to have sustainable open source development which no one seems to pay for? --- Anyway, neat to have a new terminal that isn't Electron, but I'll stick to MS Terminal. At least they already have all my telemetry data.

sgt 5y ago
Here's my idea! A repurposed "sl" (the stream locomotive program) that displays ads every 300 characters you type.
- mirekrusin 5y ago
  You can target it, ie. if you invoke javac more than once a day, it could recommend local depression clinic services.
- smoldesu 5y ago
  We're going to need more analytics on customers use pattern before we can launch this idea publicly though.
michlim 5y ago
Warp engineer here. The terminal is totally free for individuals. Our business model is to make the terminal so useful for individuals that their companies will want to pay for the team features. We will not degrade your experience: we would never charge for anything a terminal currently does. No paywalls around SSH or features that don't cost us money. We will never sell your data. We treat privacy seriously at Warp: check out www.warp.dev/privacy for more information. We are planning to open-source parts and potentially all of the terminal.
- ushakov 5y ago
  > Our business model is to make the terminal so useful for individuals that their companies will want to pay for the team features. why would businesses pay for something that was always free? selling bottom to top is terrible strategy that rarely works (been there, done that) you should instead market it to decision-makers who actually have a say what services the business purchases or not developers have no say in business and have no access to credit cards basically if you want to sell a terminal app, don't sell a terminal app, instead sell your "productivity platform" and terminal is just needed to "access productivity benefits"
  - renewiltord 5y ago
    The collaboration tooling stuff sounds interesting. It's the same model as Postman.

sgt 5y ago

Here's my idea! A repurposed "sl" (the stream locomotive program) that displays ads every 300 characters you type.

mirekrusin 5y ago
You can target it, ie. if you invoke javac more than once a day, it could recommend local depression clinic services.
smoldesu 5y ago
We're going to need more analytics on customers use pattern before we can launch this idea publicly though.

michlim 5y ago

Warp engineer here. The terminal is totally free for individuals. Our business model is to make the terminal so useful for individuals that their companies will want to pay for the team features. We will not degrade your experience: we would never charge for anything a terminal currently does. No paywalls around SSH or features that don't cost us money. We will never sell your data. We treat privacy seriously at Warp: check out www.warp.dev/privacy for more information. We are planning to open-source parts and potentially all of the terminal.

ushakov 5y ago
> Our business model is to make the terminal so useful for individuals that their companies will want to pay for the team features. why would businesses pay for something that was always free? selling bottom to top is terrible strategy that rarely works (been there, done that) you should instead market it to decision-makers who actually have a say what services the business purchases or not developers have no say in business and have no access to credit cards basically if you want to sell a terminal app, don't sell a terminal app, instead sell your "productivity platform" and terminal is just needed to "access productivity benefits"
- renewiltord 5y ago
  The collaboration tooling stuff sounds interesting. It's the same model as Postman.