This might be premature (I'd certainly hate for someone to quickly do this and screw me over), but what would the HN community's reaction be to a new open-source project, offered as both a free site with subscriptions as well as locally installable on a server of your choice, with support for all the major version control systems (SVN, git, mercurial, bazaar), essentially like a cross between GitHub and 37signals' products, and wasn't just a clone of the GitHub/BitBucket formula?
Because I'm kind of far into development, and I'd definitely like some conceptual feedback / criticism / words of encouragement that my work won't be for naught. It could be that GitHub is too entrenched at this point, but I'm willing to take that gamble.
There've been approximately 50 million of these over the years; it's a commodity.
Really, if you're looking at open source, I'd recommend joining an existing project that you find interesting. Nothing prevents you from making a site based on such a project, and they might even like the exposure it gets them.
I had considered that back when I started it. Initially I was just going to develop more into Redmine and build it out into a central site, as it was really the only suitable candidate for something like this. The internals clashed a lot with my vision of what I wanted to do, so I made a decision to forgo using it outright, and just developing beyond it, referencing it purely for inspiration.
SCM/Project Management is very saturated at this point, and that's really my only worry.
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This might be premature (I'd certainly hate for someone to quickly do this and screw me over), but what would the HN community's reaction be to a new open-source project, offered as both a free site with subscriptions as well as locally installable on a server of your choice, with support for all the major version control systems (SVN, git, mercurial, bazaar), essentially like a cross between GitHub and 37signals' products, and wasn't just a clone of the GitHub/BitBucket formula?
Because I'm kind of far into development, and I'd definitely like some conceptual feedback / criticism / words of encouragement that my work won't be for naught. It could be that GitHub is too entrenched at this point, but I'm willing to take that gamble.
There've been approximately 50 million of these over the years; it's a commodity.
Really, if you're looking at open source, I'd recommend joining an existing project that you find interesting. Nothing prevents you from making a site based on such a project, and they might even like the exposure it gets them.
I had considered that back when I started it. Initially I was just going to develop more into Redmine and build it out into a central site, as it was really the only suitable candidate for something like this. The internals clashed a lot with my vision of what I wanted to do, so I made a decision to forgo using it outright, and just developing beyond it, referencing it purely for inspiration.
SCM/Project Management is very saturated at this point, and that's really my only worry.