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jrm4today at 7:29 PM1 replyview on HN

The irrational exuberance of these guys. It's interesting to see what happened, somebody somewhere got the very very bad idea (if the goal is to make money) of "we will build, like the BEST terminal."

Which, given open-source, is just going to be a dead-end, even before AI. Because software likes to be modifiable, and this sort of thing is literally at the center of people who like to modify software.

But, hey, if something good comes of it, fantastic. I mostly the think of Docker, an unqualified success in software and probably a huge failure in business.

And the latter actually makes this a double-good; a "successful" docker would have somehow monopolized some very important part of the process, and docker is too good to be gatekept like that.


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dghlsakjgtoday at 8:32 PM

Docker has an ARR of ~$200mm. They did that by pivoting to a strong focus on developer tooling in 2019 after they nearly went under due to focusing too much on their enterprise infrastructure product.

I would be fine being a business “failure” by that definition.