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1. michaelmure · 1790343402 · focus · HN ↗

   Hi, author here, nice to see some interest :-)

   FYI, this is my near-term roadmap:

     - have the webui accept external auth (like github oauth) so that it can be a public portal and accept external interactions
     - have the webui expose a git remote endpoint
     - slightly rework identities (and likely root them in did:plc for pubkey distribution, the identity system from bluesky, without being an ATProto thing), which would allow to share identities between repos way more naturally
     - extend to support pull-requests, possibly CI. That would make it a somewhat complete local-first forge that you can also self-host trivially
   

   Also, while there is some attention ... I'm considering working on this full time. If you have some advice or opportunities on how I can support myself doing this, let me know!

   1. ok_dad · 1790366919 · focus · HN ↗

      > I'm considering working on this full time. If you have some advice or opportunities on how I can support myself doing this, let me know!

      Make it easy for non-technical users to also use this software. That will probably get you further along with gaining paid customers, IMO, because that's the hard part with something like this. It's easy for anyone who isn't used to `git` to use GitHub issues or something like Jira or Shortcut, but something tied to `git` or another cli tool is a hard sell for non-programmers, I think.

      Make a program users can install on their MacOS/Windows desktop that interacts with a repository, without any need for the user to use `git`, or make a secure/hardened docker image that an org can run in their infra that links to repos and allows interaction via the web.

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