Sidekick
Dev tools
live debugger
SHOW HN2022
How HN took it
3 positive, 7 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 6 critical, out of 16 comments about the project. Thread score -0.31.
Pricing: 2 for, 2 againstIdea: 1 for, 1 againstExecution: 0 for, 1 againstDocs: 0 for, 1 againstDesign: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
AGPL license choice praised as protecting commercial open source
From 1 comment
Personally I'm really happy to see a commercial entity with a FOSS offering that's protecting their revenue using AGPL instead of these new "open source eventually" business…
dljsjr on HN
Objections
AGPL license is banned or frowned upon at some companies
From 2 comments
It's for sure not "wrong," as (a) it's your software (b) people have different concerns they want to have addressed by license terms For me, and the company I work for, AGPL is…
mdaniel on HN> AGPL-3.0 license https://github.com/runsidekick/sidekick/blob/v0.0.1/LICENSE I knew what it was going to be before even looking
mdaniel on HN
Comparison with Lightrun was misleading
From 2 comments
This isn't a comparison just a title and misleading bullets. Lightrun supports all these things and so much more. * Lightrun supports web UI via VSCode.dev support * Lightrun can…
invalidname on HNThe site says: > Sidekick vs Lightrun Why Choose Sidekick Which implies the following bullet points are thing that sidekick has and Lightrun doesn't. Number 3 and 4 correspond…
invalidname on HN
Finger image in README is off-putting
From 1 comment
Remove the finger image in the README. It's a huge turnoff.
fuzzythinker on HN
Requests
Clearer product comparisons with competitors
From 2 comments
This isn't a comparison just a title and misleading bullets. Lightrun supports all these things and so much more. * Lightrun supports web UI via VSCode.dev support * Lightrun can…
invalidname on HNsorry for being misleading, I was not trying to do so. About the first one I was referring to our own web UI, considering the plugins you are right. 2. one they weren't used to…
bariskaya on HN
Questions
How does it differ from JVM flight recorder and other live debuggers
From 2 comments
Why would I use it over the JVM’s stellar observability tools, that I assume can do a much better job due to being integral to it? I don’t only mean the debugger, but also the…
kaba0 on HNIn addition to being OSS, Do you mind sharing the differentiation or with overlap w Lightrun and Rookout?
fillskills on HN
Alternatives named
Lightrun
From 2 comments
In addition to being OSS, Do you mind sharing the differentiation or with overlap w Lightrun and Rookout?
fillskills on HNThis isn't a comparison just a title and misleading bullets. Lightrun supports all these things and so much more. * Lightrun supports web UI via VSCode.dev support * Lightrun can…
invalidname on HN
Rookout
From 1 comment
In addition to being OSS, Do you mind sharing the differentiation or with overlap w Lightrun and Rookout?
fillskills on HN
JVM Flight Recorder
From 2 comments
Why would I use it over the JVM’s stellar observability tools, that I assume can do a much better job due to being integral to it? I don’t only mean the debugger, but also the…
kaba0 on HNJFR can also run in production without any meaningful overhead, it is a very important goal of it. But dynamically changing new “trace”points with a running prod instance is…
kaba0 on HN