gitern

In my hacker news post, I had people (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23922081) request the CLI as a shell script so I've gone ahead and delivered that for those that need it.

My intuition says people that are this distrustful of the service won't end up as users, but nonetheless my intuition might be wrong and I enjoyed learning some portable shell scripting. At the very least it serves to document the SSH API some.

Launching today to all my lovely crickets. I posted on HN within the last hour and got a handful of visits and very few upvotes. At this point, I know it's par for the course and I'm happy to have released to anyone at all.

I'm going to be participating more on Indie Hackers and will likely get back on yc's startup school. In for the long haul with this one if only because it's fun to build. Excited to keep shipping!

It took me a little over 6 weeks but I've done it!

I had to compromise on some things I wanted to do, like use gerbil scheme for the cli, but I released shortly after the deadline I set myself.

The biggest learning here is that having a deadline for MVP release really helped keep me focused, on target, and flexible. Normally I'd procrastinate certain details and spend too much time in pursuit of an unimportant details. e.g. I built the CLI with a great javascript tool from Heroku that saved me a week or more of work and provides features I'd have to do a lot of work to provide otherwise. Ultimately, I think an autoupdating JS CLI is probably the better choice for more than speeding up launch.

I had a need for a git host (mostly as a backup of local masters) but was strangely resistant to putting them on the githubs and bitbuckets of the world mostly because they were overkill for my solo-hacking use case. I also just don't enjoy using them: no easy namespacing and the easiest way to create a repo requires me to leave the terminal and go to their centralized GUI.

Over a week or two, I enumerated all the things I wish github did do, and decided I would set about building a service that did these things.