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We want you to build the next Git platform on Cloudflare

217 points · 201 comments · geoffbp

  1. mrcwinn · · focus · HN ↗
    lol, spec work anyone? For maybe-maybe-not $25k, you build something that could create millions in enterprise value.

    Advice for everyone considering this: if you're passionate about ideas in this space and have access to an LLM — build it yourself and start your own company. In fact, message me easting.exe [at] gmail. I'll throw in $25k to get us started. I'm a prior founder with an exit. Because this offer from Cloudflare is ridiculous.

    1. airstrike · · focus · HN ↗
      Badass offer and even badder gmail address
    2. fragmede · · focus · HN ↗
      The problem is git is three things, a command line interface, a wire protocol, and a database format, and you can't replace all three at once if you want to gain any acceptance. So you have to chip away at the individual pieces. The real problem though is that AI makes version control invisible because the agents are capable of producing the artifacts. AI makes git's data model all wrong. What you want is then a way for AI to be able to make, say, 1,000 views into the codebase, cheap. That involves spinning up VMs/containers and is a much different problem than hey, let's make github2.com.
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