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I could understand your criticism if this was link to a flashy marketing page or a blatant attempt to sell something - but this is a github repo with an MIT license, what exactly is the problem?

I have no particular interest in using this piece of software, but I would still celebrate and defend the notion that people can have little ideas like this, get something working and then share it with others to move forward with.

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I'm questioning what the purpose is of pushing it at this point in the project lifecycle. It may not have a fancy website but it is making flashy marketing claims in that readme. How about being upfront about the maturity of the project before making the kind of comparisons that it does.

Every day HN receives submissions like this, albeit usually as "show HN" posts, but not always. One could argue it's literally what HN is here for.

> If you're sharing your own work and there's a way to try it out, put "Show HN" in the title. Make sure you've read the Show HN guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html.

:shrug:

I mean this thing is "Part of the Qbix platform" and there is an offer to sell services related to the "Qbix platform"

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