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Comment by jeroenhd | Hacker News Reader

I had high hopes for Veilid when it was unveiled (ha) but I stopped hearing about it soon after it was published online. Veilid Chat didn't really seem to work once I found the source code and except for a few "hello world" networking programs I haven't seen anything use the protocol yet. The official website doesn't seem to be getting any updates anymore.

A shame, because this has a lot to offer, in my opinion.

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I think it basically released before it was ready, to much fanfare. Not an undeserved fanfare, but a premature one.

I think the concept is solid and they're still actively developing it, but it's not really something end-users can play with yet.

The issue as I see it is free open source software can't normally compete with commercial simply because it relies on the good will of developers to contribute. People need money to live, most of us can't dedicate hours a day to working on something like this. For every 20 devs you can get to do this theres a 1000+ working for the commercial equivalent.

We need a paid, non corporate model, not free.

They're still updating it regularly, but it hasn't grown nearly as fast as they wanted it to. Last I heard they're working on doing nightlies and weeklies for release too. I don't really think that matters as much as just having a good release schedule and tools that leverage it.

love cDc but they drop more projects than google - people just remember the ones that stick/stuck

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