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Looks like quite a lot of marketing put into this open-source project. Heavyweight glossy website with trendy TLD, emojis everywhere. Is this kind of thing typi

by _krii 4y ago

Looks like quite a lot of marketing put into this open-source project. Heavyweight glossy website with trendy TLD, emojis everywhere. Is this kind of thing typical in the JS world in particular? Seriously asking. I'm trying to figure out what they are selling me, or what megacorp they are associated with, but I don't see it yet.

yewenjie 4y ago
> Is this kind of thing typical in the JS world in particular? Yes, pretty common in the frontend world.
IMcD23 4y ago
And yet, I set out to find what this thing can do. I read the README. Today, the most interesting part is about his core and the way he can scale up. He is pretty young but can easily scale to have new features (skills). You can find what he is able to do by browsing the packages list. Sounds good for you? Then let's get started! The packages list is a dead link. https://github.com/leon-ai/leon/tree/develop/packages https://github.com/leon-ai/leon/tree/develop/packages
- kenny87 4y ago
  > The packages list is a dead link. https://github.com/leon-ai/leon/tree/develop/packages https://github.com/leon-ai/leon/tree/develop/packages From the blog ... "As of now, 'module' and 'packages' no longer exist. Instead, they’ve been replaced by 'skills'." New link is https://github.com/leon-ai/leon/tree/develop/skills https://github.com/leon-ai/leon/tree/develop/skills
  - jimktrains2 4y ago
    All those folders just contain a single json file with the name of the skill category in it? I don't see any actual features?
    - revolvingocelot 4y ago
      Not all those folders. Try utilities or news or leon or games or social_communication. You could be forgiven for thinking it was all of them, though -- not having anything in weather or music_audio, for a moment I thought so too.
jrm4 4y ago
Right? I'm finding this problem everywhere. When checking out new software, it's becoming more and more difficult to determine what to do with "good looking marketing," and it nearly cuts perfectly in roughly 3 ways; you're likely either a dedicated whatever-size team making something great that happens to have good marketing; you're a small team pushing garbage and putting all your money in marketing, or you're a megacorp (e.g. likely not great)
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fxtentacle 4y ago
It's a showcase for a front-end framework. See the link at the bottom. https://vercel.com/ https://vercel.com/
- wetmore 4y ago
  Vercel is not a front-end framework. Also that's a sponsorship link.
- yunohn 4y ago
  Sure, but vercel has nothing to do with the UI look. It’s a framework for developing the overall application, not the components or designs.
coscorrodrift 4y ago
>Heavyweight glossy website with trendy TLD, emojis everywhere. Is this kind of thing typical in the JS world in particular? yeah in frontend projects/dataviz stuff for sure
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arisAlexis 4y ago
This is overly suspicious. The guy made a nice effort and open sources it. Would you prefer he had it closed source or sold it?
- Louistiti 4y ago
  Thanks.
Louistiti 4y ago
No mega corp, I'm just a passionate guy who spend my free time to work on Leon. Is there anything wrong with that?

by _krii 4y ago

yewenjie 4y ago

> Is this kind of thing typical in the JS world in particular? Yes, pretty common in the frontend world.

IMcD23 4y ago

And yet, I set out to find what this thing can do. I read the README. Today, the most interesting part is about his core and the way he can scale up. He is pretty young but can easily scale to have new features (skills). You can find what he is able to do by browsing the packages list. Sounds good for you? Then let's get started! The packages list is a dead link. https://github.com/leon-ai/leon/tree/develop/packages https://github.com/leon-ai/leon/tree/develop/packages

kenny87 4y ago
> The packages list is a dead link. https://github.com/leon-ai/leon/tree/develop/packages https://github.com/leon-ai/leon/tree/develop/packages From the blog ... "As of now, 'module' and 'packages' no longer exist. Instead, they’ve been replaced by 'skills'." New link is https://github.com/leon-ai/leon/tree/develop/skills https://github.com/leon-ai/leon/tree/develop/skills
- jimktrains2 4y ago
  All those folders just contain a single json file with the name of the skill category in it? I don't see any actual features?
  - revolvingocelot 4y ago
    Not all those folders. Try utilities or news or leon or games or social_communication. You could be forgiven for thinking it was all of them, though -- not having anything in weather or music_audio, for a moment I thought so too.

jrm4 4y ago

Right? I'm finding this problem everywhere. When checking out new software, it's becoming more and more difficult to determine what to do with "good looking marketing," and it nearly cuts perfectly in roughly 3 ways; you're likely either a dedicated whatever-size team making something great that happens to have good marketing; you're a small team pushing garbage and putting all your money in marketing, or you're a megacorp (e.g. likely not great)

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fxtentacle 4y ago

It's a showcase for a front-end framework. See the link at the bottom. https://vercel.com/ https://vercel.com/

wetmore 4y ago
Vercel is not a front-end framework. Also that's a sponsorship link.
yunohn 4y ago
Sure, but vercel has nothing to do with the UI look. It’s a framework for developing the overall application, not the components or designs.

coscorrodrift 4y ago

>Heavyweight glossy website with trendy TLD, emojis everywhere. Is this kind of thing typical in the JS world in particular? yeah in frontend projects/dataviz stuff for sure

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arisAlexis 4y ago

This is overly suspicious. The guy made a nice effort and open sources it. Would you prefer he had it closed source or sold it?

Louistiti 4y ago
Thanks.

Louistiti 4y ago

No mega corp, I'm just a passionate guy who spend my free time to work on Leon. Is there anything wrong with that?