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Mitchell Hashimoto is a real programmer in the old vein. It's lovely to see him succeed. Ghostty is fantastic to use. There was a devtools blackhole era once w
by arjie 11mo ago
Mitchell Hashimoto is a real programmer in the old vein. It's lovely to see him succeed. Ghostty is fantastic to use.
There was a devtools blackhole era once where if you got in that business you were just giving things away and never got to reap the rewards. Then there was this era of founders who figured out how to make it sticky and capture value in a Pareto-optimal way.
Love to see it.
- catlover76 11mo agoI always found the fact that he named a company after himself to be pretty off-putting, personally Also, didn't said company piss people off in some way that led to Open Tofu being created?
- defen 11mo agoDell, HP, Walmart, Johnson & Johnson, Ford...it's not exactly unheard of to name your company after yourself.
- caseyohara 11mo agoExactly. A huge number of household brands are named after people. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_companies_named_after_people https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_companies_named_after_...
- catlover76 11mo ago[dead]
- cholantesh 11mo agoIIRC, he was on his way out by the time the BSL shenanigans were underway.
- ceocoder 11mo agoFerrari, McLaren, Pagani, Lamborghini, Tata, Honda, Toyota, Wal-Mart, Zuora (named after the two founders), Garmin (also named after the two founders).
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- nylonstrung 11mo agoAutomattic and New Relic if we're looking within software
- Fnoord 11mo agoOr it shows the person stands behind their company, and isn't shy to take the responsibility.
- davidsainez 11mo agoEver heard of Debian or Linux?
- flaviolivolsi 11mo agoLinux was named Freax by Linus, but other people didn't like it and started calling it Linux and it just stuck
- Vinnl 11mo agoAnd Git :)
- mstade 11mo agoI don't know the specifics of naming that particular company, but being the majority stakeholder of two companies myself I can tell you that naming companies is just as hard as naming things in programming. Both of my companies are named after myself, one directly so and the other being a portmanteau of my business partner's and my names. It had very little to do with self aggrandizing and more to do with the tax authorities need a name and time was limited. The names were used mostly as placeholders and then stuck. Branding is hard.
- wpm 11mo agoHashicorp is a good name though it’d be hard to pass up
- osigurdson 11mo agoHe mentioned in an interview Hashicorp was just a corporate entity that he used as a teenager to do some contracting here and there. He and the other founder weren't that keen on using it but the name stuck.
- mixmastamyk 11mo agoCharles Schwab has written (my memory) that putting one's name on the business stakes its reputation there, and such a business is theoretically more trustworthy.
- jeron 11mo agohashicorp made him a billionaire, ghostty is really more of a pet project lol