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0 pointsandrewzah4y ago0 comments

A company receiving receiving $23 million usd to build a terminal is about the dumbest thing I've seen this month. I would've figured it to be a April Fools joke if posted a few days earlier.

Why is a company building a terminal? How are they going to earn money at all when there are other fast, performant terminals that are open source, community run, and don't have interests at-odds with user freedom and privacy?

It seems like just about any tech project is being funded now.

edit: It's also sad that we're at the point of "no electron" being a selling point, when it should be the standard for CLI tools. And I'm so glad to see it supports other shells, like just about every other terminal out there.

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ushakov4y ago· 1 in thread

they’ll have a business offering which lets people collaborate

andrewzahOP4y ago

If collaboration is the angle, JetBrains and VSCode already offer that but without forcing people to use specific terminals.

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broknbottle4y ago

Monetization via Ads in the terminal. By monitoring your input and determining periods where you're not as productive. The possibilities are endless, imagine getting a pop-up notification right in your terminal for a local coffee shop with a great coffee selection or a local pizzeria with 5 star pizza to give you that boost to keep on coding through the night.

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