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jamsync.io

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Hi everyone! This is the first launch of my project, Jamsync, which is trying to make version control easier for everyone. Let me know if you have any feedback!

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The page looks like a consumer product, but I'd want detailed docs or source code for any dev tool. Will it try to version changes to big binary files if I throw them in? Will it ignore some files? Permissions? What happens if the internet is down? How much disk space will it take? Like I cannot imagine trusting something this critical to a tool with no visibility and no docs, no guarantees. It could blow up my codebase one day and I'd be stuck with a discord to go to?

Why is this better than existing solutions? The feature list on the site is not convincing. (“View previous versions of your code with ease”… that is table stakes for version control, not a differentiator.)

Most version control systems are both free and, frankly, not that hard to use. This would need some pretty killer features to be compelling.

Appreciate the feedback! We think that git can be difficult to use, especially for beginners but definitely agree it's going to be hard to compete with free.

Also there are a pile of free GUI's that hide anything that's hard.

I think what would be hardest for you and your team would be integrating with existing CICD systems. How would I send my code to Heroku (for example)

Agree with togaen here, not sure ease of use is a massive blocker for someone looking to breank into programming!

> not that hard to use

I can't think of many tools that have their own profanity-based undo site: https://ohshitgit.com/

It's more likely we've all gotten so used to git over the years, we've forgotten how terrible its UI really is.

As I understand, when the sync is enabled for a directory, all changes there are recorded and synced automatically, without any need to do anything. No commits, no pushes, no pulls, no merges. Just synced storage with a time machine view. Looks like a nice idea to me.

I think git is fairly easy to use (and allow for more freedom, I can choose what I want to track and what I want to commit).

Sure you can go wild with git. But the basic workflow is, well... basic.

For the people who have a hard time with the basics, they can use the ton of GUI solutions. Git Tower comes to mind or the integrated git stuff inside VS Code.

Thanks for the feedback!

Yeah.. I've seen sales and marketing people use it without issue.

"Sign in with Github" is an interesting choice for a paid version control system...

Haha agreed, but it was the easier choice for us and made the most sense for the people we're trying to target!

I totally get why you did this tbf

Have you looked at Fossil? It seems to be aiming at the same target.

You lost 99.987% of hacker news readers when they saw pricing on the first line after the cool logo

But cool, I think I mean it looks like a raspberry pi, and I like pi.

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