ashtom

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by ashtom 7mo ago
Yes to all that. And GitLab the company was only founded in 2014 (OSS project started in 2011) and ran through YC in 2015, seven years after GitHub launched.
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by ashtom 7mo ago
Didn't say you were wrong. It was just missing the Xamarin step in the sequence of companies, and arguably Xamarin was the bigger milestone than Ximian.
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by ashtom 7mo ago
I'd bet that less people had their source code on git in 2008 than the number of developers using the various coding agents today. And the open-source project that we published today hooks into the existing workflow for those developer
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by ashtom 7mo ago
Makes sense, and we definitely will have more technical posts coming soon and on a regular basis. And I am German, I am used to snark. :P Joking aside, thanks for the response and appreciate your work as a mod!
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by ashtom 7mo ago
Chris was also CEO from 2008 to 2012. Tom had 2012 to 2014. Nat's company Xamarin was acquired by Microsoft in 2016. HockeyApp wasn't A/B testing, but a platform for iPhone, Mac, Android, and Windows Phone developers to distr
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by ashtom 7mo ago
Time will tell how small that corner is. ;)
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by ashtom 7mo ago
Yes, definitely something we are thinking of.
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by ashtom 7mo ago
I left August 11: https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/goodbye-githu...
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by ashtom 7mo ago
Fixed. It's Cursor 2.0 and Composer 1.5, mixed that up when editing the post last night.
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by ashtom 7mo ago
Founder here. I built commercial insurance software for Windows 95 in the 1990s, driver assistant systems at Mercedes and at Bosch in the early 2000s, dozens of iPhone apps as contractor, a startup called HockeyApp (acquired by Microsoft),
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by ashtom 7mo ago
Only four: Chris, Tom, Nat, and Thomas. Last one is me. ;)
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by ashtom 7mo ago
Thanks. New startup, new approach.
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by ashtom 7mo ago
I am here. What did I not bother with? I wrote the blog post and it has all the details.
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by ashtom 7mo ago
Entire CEO here. We are going to be building in the open and full stack open source, but great to see alternatives.