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Show HN: I made an easier version control system
Hi everyone! This is the first launch of my project, Jamsync, which is trying to make version control easier for everyone. Let me know if you have any feedback!
- togaen 4y agoWhy is this better than existing solutions? The feature list on the site is not convincing. (“View previous versions of your code with ease”… that is table stakes for version control, not a differentiator.) Most version control systems are both free and, frankly, not that hard to use. This would need some pretty killer features to be compelling.
- zdgeier 4y agoAppreciate the feedback! We think that git can be difficult to use, especially for beginners but definitely agree it's going to be hard to compete with free.
- john_the_writer 4y agoAlso there are a pile of free GUI's that hide anything that's hard. I think what would be hardest for you and your team would be integrating with existing CICD systems. How would I send my code to Heroku (for example)
- cupachabra 4y agoAgree with togaen here, not sure ease of use is a massive blocker for someone looking to breank into programming!
- KingMob 4y ago> not that hard to use I can't think of many tools that have their own profanity-based undo site: https://ohshitgit.com/ https://ohshitgit.com/ It's more likely we've all gotten so used to git over the years, we've forgotten how terrible its UI really is.
- atemerev 4y agoAs I understand, when the sync is enabled for a directory, all changes there are recorded and synced automatically, without any need to do anything. No commits, no pushes, no pulls, no merges. Just synced storage with a time machine view. Looks like a nice idea to me.
- al2o3cr 4y ago"Sign in with Github" is an interesting choice for a paid version control system...
- zdgeier 4y agoHaha agreed, but it was the easier choice for us and made the most sense for the people we're trying to target!
- cupachabra 4y agoI totally get why you did this tbf
- soueuls 4y agoI think git is fairly easy to use (and allow for more freedom, I can choose what I want to track and what I want to commit). Sure you can go wild with git. But the basic workflow is, well... basic. For the people who have a hard time with the basics, they can use the ton of GUI solutions. Git Tower comes to mind or the integrated git stuff inside VS Code.
- zdgeier 4y agoThanks for the feedback!
- john_the_writer 4y agoYeah.. I've seen sales and marketing people use it without issue.
- spfzero 4y agoHave you looked at Fossil? It seems to be aiming at the same target.
- zaptheimpaler 4y agoThe page looks like a consumer product, but I'd want detailed docs or source code for any dev tool. Will it try to version changes to big binary files if I throw them in? Will it ignore some files? Permissions? What happens if the internet is down? How much disk space will it take? Like I cannot imagine trusting something this critical to a tool with no visibility and no docs, no guarantees. It could blow up my codebase one day and I'd be stuck with a discord to go to?
- sn0n 4y agoYou lost 99.987% of hacker news readers when they saw pricing on the first line after the cool logo
- sn0n 4y agoBut cool, I think I mean it looks like a raspberry pi, and I like pi.