- Love the idea overall of a fresh, new shell. I love novelty, features, ergonomics, and this pushes all the right buttons
- Looks gorgeous
- The mandatory Github login is...weird. I don't mind logging in, but it seemed unskippable, and conceptually that leaves a bad taste.
- Mandatory telemetry...ehhh. Like I get it, I use Sentry and OTEL, I love the visibility, and I get exactly why you want it in the beta, but ehhhh, really bad look. Especially in this community. Also the privacy policy doesn't seem to be linked from the app. I can get to it, but would be nice to just go there right from the about page. On the whole...I find it tolerable, but I don't work in a highly sensitive field at the moment. At $LASTCO, that would be a complete nonstarter. Between the squick factor and compliance, it would be good to at least allow some amount of opt-out on the phone home.
- I would easily pay $20-50 for a souped-up terminal (I spend all day in it), even a closed-source one, but the "we raised tons of money to build a free terminal and haven't figured out how to monetize it yet", again, understandable, but not the best look, given the mandatory data collection. Hey, dev's gotta eat, but I'd rather pay for OSS and transparency, rather than free-but-you-are-the-product, and I hope they go for the former route.
> I would easily pay $20-50 for a souped-up terminal (I spend all day in it), even a closed-source one, but the "we raised tons of money to build a free terminal and haven't figured out how to monetize it yet", again, understandable, but not the best look, given the mandatory data collection. Hey, dev's gotta eat, but I'd rather pay for OSS and transparency, rather than free-but-you-are-the-product, and I hope they go for the former route.
The terminal is totally free for individuals. Our business model is to make the terminal so useful for individuals that their companies will want to pay for the team features.
The general philosophy is that we would never charge for anything a terminal currently does. So no paywalls around SSH or anything like that. The types of features we could eventually charge for are things that have a cost to us, for example enabling real-time terminal collaboration. Even those will likely be free up to some level of usage and only charged in a company context.
We will never sell your data.
> Also the privacy policy doesn't seem to be linked from the app. I can get to it, but would be nice to just go there right from the about page.
The privacy policy is linked from the login screen and it's also one of the first items in our user docs.
- Love the idea overall of a fresh, new shell. I love novelty, features, ergonomics, and this pushes all the right buttons
- Looks gorgeous
- The mandatory Github login is...weird. I don't mind logging in, but it seemed unskippable, and conceptually that leaves a bad taste.
- Mandatory telemetry...ehhh. Like I get it, I use Sentry and OTEL, I love the visibility, and I get exactly why you want it in the beta, but ehhhh, really bad look. Especially in this community. Also the privacy policy doesn't seem to be linked from the app. I can get to it, but would be nice to just go there right from the about page. On the whole...I find it tolerable, but I don't work in a highly sensitive field at the moment. At $LASTCO, that would be a complete nonstarter. Between the squick factor and compliance, it would be good to at least allow some amount of opt-out on the phone home.
- I would easily pay $20-50 for a souped-up terminal (I spend all day in it), even a closed-source one, but the "we raised tons of money to build a free terminal and haven't figured out how to monetize it yet", again, understandable, but not the best look, given the mandatory data collection. Hey, dev's gotta eat, but I'd rather pay for OSS and transparency, rather than free-but-you-are-the-product, and I hope they go for the former route.