Hydra 1.0 (opens in new tab)

(hackhydra.com)

32 pointsSmileyKeith11y ago29 comments

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sdegutis11y ago· 6 in thread

Author here. Happy to answer your questions in this thread.

Except for bug reports or feature requests, file those at https://github.com/sdegutis/hydra/issues instead.

Is this project open-source, under some open-source license? Back when we saw it a few weeks ago, it looked like it was an open-source project, but now it looks like you're charging money for it... but the source is on GitHub?

Could you clarify the license / money situation?

sdegutis11y ago

I'm writing a blog post to clarify this.

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superchink11y ago

Great work! Love the fast iteration; been using it since I found it on HN, and can't live without it.

Question: what does the license buy you? Are there limitations on usage or functionality without al license? Apologies if it's explained, but I couldn't find details on the site or github.

sdegutis11y ago

It'll show a window periodically (without stealing key focus) to remind you to buy a license.

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cbsmith11y ago

The thing I keep wondering about with this project is to what extent you can't already do this all with AppleScript, and to the extent you can't, why you wouldn't just add events/routines for AppleScript to get the same effect.

Isn't this mostly just a Lua scripting bridge?

sdegutis11y ago

You might be able to do a lot of the same stuff in AppleScript, but that's AppleScript and this is Lua, which to me personally is a huge advantage.

And it's not quite a Lua "scripting bridge". That term usually implies automatic bridging between two programming languages, such as Lua and Objc, but all our bridging is manual.

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antirez11y ago· 3 in thread

From the home page it is impossible to tell what the program exactly does. The "documentation" link seems like designed to be impossible to find ;-) Reading the documentation ideas are not introduced in natural order considering that people don't know what you are taking about. Because I'm interested in what the program could do, I'm still trying to figure it out btw... This feedback is here only because I see you have a "buy license" thing and I want your business to succeed, and the current setup is limiting this IMHO.

sdegutis11y ago

Thanks for your feedback. I've updated the page accordingly to have a "Learn More" link which leads to a much better place to start reading.

cbsmith11y ago

I don't get the complaint about the documentation link. The "Learn More" link takes you to the GitHub Readme, which has a fair bit of documentation and links to everything else one might like including the command line interface project, and a "Resources" section with links to the full API. What's hard to find?

sdegutis11y ago

He made that comment before the "Learn More" link took you to the Github page. Before, it said "Documentation" and took you to the /docs page, which was just dumb of me.

Svenstaro11y ago· 3 in thread

This seems to be doing the exactly wrong thing to do. In the Windows times, these things were called desktop macros. The GUI is not made for being scripted, even less so by moving the mouse.

I know this sounds negative and you probably put a lot of effort into that but if it is what it seems like it is, then I find it horribly wrong.

sdegutis11y ago

Personally, I've been using this app for about 2 years now, and I feel way more productive when it's running than when it's not.

creese11y ago

Ever heard of xmonad? This project is an attempt to do something similar for OS X users.

LukeHoersten11y ago

XMonad is supposed to have OS X support but I've heard it only works for X11 apps. It'd be great to have XMonad for OS X fully supported because once you get a good config built up it's hard to beat. And if you know Haskell it's even better.

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daschwa11y ago· 1 in thread

Do you still plan to keep the project opensource now that you have a license available to purchase?

sdegutis11y ago

Yep.

colinramsay11y ago· 1 in thread

Discussion from a few weeks back:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7982514

SmileyKeithOP11y ago

Yep. At the time it was still in beta though.

AndrewHampton11y ago

I've been using hydra for a few weeks now and love it so far. Great work sdegutis!

Here's my config for anyone who's curious: https://github.com/andrewhampton/dotfiles

akama11y ago

It seems the Mac OSX window manager Phoenix has been deprecation in favor of this new program. I am looking forward to trying it out. Thanks for all the work.

cmsj11y ago

Woo! Love this tool :)

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29 comments

22 comments · 8 top-level

sdegutis11y ago· 6 in thread

Author here. Happy to answer your questions in this thread.

Except for bug reports or feature requests, file those at https://github.com/sdegutis/hydra/issues instead.

PieSquared11y ago

Could you clarify the license / money situation?

sdegutis11y ago

I'm writing a blog post to clarify this.

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superchink11y ago

Great work! Love the fast iteration; been using it since I found it on HN, and can't live without it.

Question: what does the license buy you? Are there limitations on usage or functionality without al license? Apologies if it's explained, but I couldn't find details on the site or github.

sdegutis11y ago

It'll show a window periodically (without stealing key focus) to remind you to buy a license.

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cbsmith11y ago

Isn't this mostly just a Lua scripting bridge?

sdegutis11y ago

You might be able to do a lot of the same stuff in AppleScript, but that's AppleScript and this is Lua, which to me personally is a huge advantage.

And it's not quite a Lua "scripting bridge". That term usually implies automatic bridging between two programming languages, such as Lua and Objc, but all our bridging is manual.

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antirez11y ago· 3 in thread

sdegutis11y ago

Thanks for your feedback. I've updated the page accordingly to have a "Learn More" link which leads to a much better place to start reading.

cbsmith11y ago

sdegutis11y ago

He made that comment before the "Learn More" link took you to the Github page. Before, it said "Documentation" and took you to the /docs page, which was just dumb of me.

Svenstaro11y ago· 3 in thread

This seems to be doing the exactly wrong thing to do. In the Windows times, these things were called desktop macros. The GUI is not made for being scripted, even less so by moving the mouse.

I know this sounds negative and you probably put a lot of effort into that but if it is what it seems like it is, then I find it horribly wrong.

sdegutis11y ago

Personally, I've been using this app for about 2 years now, and I feel way more productive when it's running than when it's not.

creese11y ago

Ever heard of xmonad? This project is an attempt to do something similar for OS X users.

LukeHoersten11y ago

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daschwa11y ago· 1 in thread

Do you still plan to keep the project opensource now that you have a license available to purchase?

sdegutis11y ago

Yep.

colinramsay11y ago· 1 in thread

Discussion from a few weeks back:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7982514

SmileyKeithOP11y ago

Yep. At the time it was still in beta though.

AndrewHampton11y ago

I've been using hydra for a few weeks now and love it so far. Great work sdegutis!

Here's my config for anyone who's curious: https://github.com/andrewhampton/dotfiles

akama11y ago

It seems the Mac OSX window manager Phoenix has been deprecation in favor of this new program. I am looking forward to trying it out. Thanks for all the work.

cmsj11y ago

Woo! Love this tool :)

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