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Whenever I mention my project's website in an HN comment, I am 'self-promoting' so you are correct. In my experience that is not something that is frowned upon

Whenever I mention my project's website in an HN comment, I am 'self-promoting' so you are correct. In my experience that is not something that is frowned upon on HN, since I see this kind of thing all the time (the article I commented on was promoting another product). Didgets, as it exists today, is a technology rather than a 'product'. It consists of a set of highly optimized data objects that can be used to build complex systems like hierarchical file systems, relational database tables, logging frameworks, configuration managers, or content indexers. I have implemented enough functionality into the browser application to prove that it can do those things well, but none of them are fully implemented yet. I am trying to find the right product-market fit. I have not yet open-sourced any of the code, but I probably will once I decide which open source licensing is best for it. I am simply trying to introduce this technology to others to see if there is any interest in it. Note: While I didn't explore every configuration option in Postgres so I don't have confidence that it ran as fast as it possibly could, I did not just use the default configuration. I tried all the usual tricks to speed it up.

CharlesW 4y ago
> It consists of a set of highly optimized data objects that can be used to build complex systems like hierarchical file systems, relational database tables, logging frameworks, configuration managers, or content indexers. That sounds like a "general-purpose database", unless there's something that disqualifies Didget from being that. If it's a database, you're probably competing with something closer to the free and open-source SQLite than you are the free and open-source Postgres. This can be done (see rqlite), but in any case it seems like being free and open-source would be necessary (although not sufficient) for people to consider it. > I tried all the usual tricks to speed it up. I don't know what "usual tricks" means (maybe you have a link?), but I think it would add some credence to performance claims to specify what you're doing.

CharlesW 4y ago

> It consists of a set of highly optimized data objects that can be used to build complex systems like hierarchical file systems, relational database tables, logging frameworks, configuration managers, or content indexers. That sounds like a "general-purpose database", unless there's something that disqualifies Didget from being that. If it's a database, you're probably competing with something closer to the free and open-source SQLite than you are the free and open-source Postgres. This can be done (see rqlite), but in any case it seems like being free and open-source would be necessary (although not sufficient) for people to consider it. > I tried all the usual tricks to speed it up. I don't know what "usual tricks" means (maybe you have a link?), but I think it would add some credence to performance claims to specify what you're doing.