I think I'll reserve judgment for when Warp puts its GitHub repository where its canned HN comment is.

If you want to be taken seriously as a security and privacy focused product that can be trusted to handle sensitive data and undertake sensitive operations, this is not a great look. We need to trust you now and be able to trust you today - before general availability. The world of software is littered with "potentially" and "later" statements that somehow never quite manage to arrive.

I hope you can understand our collective skepticism. Trust is earned in drops and lost in buckets. It starts with making it easy to trust you by minimizing how much we have to.

This type of canned response doesn't sit well with me. Keep us posted when you're out of beta and those things are removed, do you have a timeline for that?

I totally get your perspective, and I'd do the same thing… but only before launching on HN. If you want feedback from the hacking public, you have to accept that it'll be inefficient.

For myself, the visuals are compelling enough that my fingers twitched over "download" but the "you'll have to log in to your terminal" messaging I see here was enough for me to not, and even though I could theoretically do it later, it leaves a bad taste in my mouth that (rationally or no) will probably hold me back from trying it once it's GA.

You do understand that developers use the terminal with very sensitive information? Things like SSH keys, proprietary code (for vim users), Bitcoin private keys, etc...

These cover both professional (company) and personal stuff. No one should use a terminal that has telemetry (unless they are out of their mind).

your target audience will never opt-in though

> never console output.

Hopefully also not input ;)

Do you track input during beta?

It’s not open source currently, so probably not!

The issue is having to wait for someone else to do it. I feel the same way as a gamer waiting for third party fans to build mods/fixes/overlays that fix issues of a game that the dev decided not to implement for whatever reason. Good that it happens, wish it really didn't because now your product is more purchasable to some people because someone other than you fixed it.