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Excited to see this being re-launched. "git for data" ranks pretty high on my all time list of tech I want to see succeed.

I find the business model very interesting: A kind of "middle layer" SAAS, where you provide a new front-end for an existing service. Not seen that very often. Certainly helps with the data privacy issues. Rapid on-boarding is another immediate benefit.

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Just determining the shape of "git for data" has been a nontrivial exercise. We found that, if you do the naive translation, you get a "one size fits none," because data and code are fundamentally different.

What would be your main use cases with said "git for data"?

One use-case is this one: https://github.com/HeinrichHartmann/arxiv_meta

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