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This looks great, I had some questions about the company itself if that's OK, I'm just curious to understand the background: At the bottom of your GitHub proje

This looks great, I had some questions about the company itself if that's OK, I'm just curious to understand the background: At the bottom of your GitHub project home page, you say the best way to join the project is to join a WeChat group (in Chinese text), but likely only a very small minority of us outside China use WeChat, so that may be a stumbling block if you are trying to encourage people outside Asia to contribute to the project. Per https://openobserve.ai/about https://openobserve.ai/about , the address at the bottom says San Francisco, California, but in the same page it says "headquartered in Bangalore, India". So where are you based out of? Also curious what the relationship is between OpenObserve the open-source project and Zinc Labs, which is referenced in the website (but not in the GitHub project).

prabhatsharma 3y ago
You can join Slack if you are outside of China, or wechat, if you are in China. We had some good early users whoBoth the options are available. > headquartered in Bangalore, India This is embarrassing, just fixed it. We are a delaware based company, headquartered in San Francisco. Pure copy paste error. Zinc Labs (Legal name) is the company behind the product OpenObserve.
- lopkeny12ko 3y ago
  How do you typo "San Francisco" into "Bangalore"? This seems extremely shady. Copy and paste from where? Did you even build this product or just hire cheap labor out of India to build it?
  - reachableceo 3y ago
    Plus one on this. How did this get “typo”?
  - hardwaresofton 3y ago
    Please give the benefit of the doubt on HN. This company created ZincSearch: https://github.com/zincsearch/zincsearch https://github.com/zincsearch/zincsearch Prabhat is one of the core contributors/maintainers: https://github.com/zincsearch/zincsearch/graphs/contributors https://github.com/zincsearch/zincsearch/graphs/contributors https://github.com/prabhatsharma https://github.com/prabhatsharma Also the negative insinuation of using “cheap” labor out of India to build the product is unnecessary. If you’re concerned about code quality, look at the code. Assuming everyone working with devs in India is doing so cynically is not charitable. I dont know why the headquarters was set as india versus SF but does it actually even matter?
  - reacharavindh 3y ago
    > Did you even build this product or just hire cheap labor out of India to build it? Assuming _only_ cheap labour exists in India is just plain ignorant. Even a discriminatory tone towards some of the outstanding engineers and hackers who live there. Please reconsider your biases, and ask questions in good faith.

prabhatsharma 3y ago

You can join Slack if you are outside of China, or wechat, if you are in China. We had some good early users whoBoth the options are available. > headquartered in Bangalore, India This is embarrassing, just fixed it. We are a delaware based company, headquartered in San Francisco. Pure copy paste error. Zinc Labs (Legal name) is the company behind the product OpenObserve.

lopkeny12ko 3y ago
How do you typo "San Francisco" into "Bangalore"? This seems extremely shady. Copy and paste from where? Did you even build this product or just hire cheap labor out of India to build it?
- reachableceo 3y ago
  Plus one on this. How did this get “typo”?
- hardwaresofton 3y ago
  Please give the benefit of the doubt on HN. This company created ZincSearch: https://github.com/zincsearch/zincsearch https://github.com/zincsearch/zincsearch Prabhat is one of the core contributors/maintainers: https://github.com/zincsearch/zincsearch/graphs/contributors https://github.com/zincsearch/zincsearch/graphs/contributors https://github.com/prabhatsharma https://github.com/prabhatsharma Also the negative insinuation of using “cheap” labor out of India to build the product is unnecessary. If you’re concerned about code quality, look at the code. Assuming everyone working with devs in India is doing so cynically is not charitable. I dont know why the headquarters was set as india versus SF but does it actually even matter?
- reacharavindh 3y ago
  > Did you even build this product or just hire cheap labor out of India to build it? Assuming _only_ cheap labour exists in India is just plain ignorant. Even a discriminatory tone towards some of the outstanding engineers and hackers who live there. Please reconsider your biases, and ask questions in good faith.