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How is this titled "fully featured" when it's still in its early stages with very little code in the repository (and most of what is there looking like an exercise in software architecture)?

Is the "it's in rust" hype so strong now that even a few lines of code covered in ambition are sufficient to make the front page of HN?

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In defence of the project, it doesn't look like the Github authors posted it to HN.

It's called fully-featured only in the design doc, so it's a statement of intentions. Te main repository page clearly states it's "still in the early stages of development".

It's in the GitHub description, too: "An open-source and fully-featured Digital Audio Workstation, made by musicians, for musicians"

Apparently, the authors drank their own cool-aid.

It's aspirational, jeez. Their eventual goal is to be a "fully featured DAW" as opposed to some other kind of tool. At least that's how I interpret it.

Aspirations are fine, but you need to separate aspirations from the status quo in your communications. The HN headline fails in that regard.

It doesn't seem like the person who posted it is the repo owner/maintainer...

So is me landing on Mars, but the buzz killers always call me out for announcing that I’m a fully featured Mars astronaut.

Yes, we (the Meadowlark team) did not make the this post in HN. It is definitely not "fully-featured" yet, we are still working on the MVP.

Most of the work done so far has been in the modular backend components that live under the RustyDAW GitHub organization, namely the audio graph repo: https://github.com/RustyDAW

I wish you good luck! This is a very ambitious project.

Just one word of advice based on my own experience: open source projects for creatives are a peculiar niche. Success isn't really based on technical merit or usability. The project with the best marketing often takes it all and leaves barely any breathing room for competing projects.

Noted!

I am planning on having a flashy website and also YouTube videos showing it off (once it's ready of course). A lot of focus is being put into the UI and making it pretty, which I believe is important in making first impressions.

Other than that I don't currently have plans for marketing. But I definitely am open to working with people who have more marketing prowess.

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