Alex Wolkov ☭
@altryne · UX, Front End
I've registered along time ago and now installed it.
What immediately gave me pause, is the fact that I need to upload ALL MY CODE to the Kite cloud?
You're a fairly new company, unlike Github or AWS, why should any company trust you with their code?
I'm trying to find some code that's not company specific so I can try this out, but for now, with the upload, without any track record, it's a hard sell for commercial environments.
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Antonio Bustamante
@antonio_bustamante · Designer, Engineer at Kite
@altryne I totally hear you. We care a lot about code privacy and we've added fine tuning so you can choose which code gets sent to the cloud, including .gitignore style functionality, whitelisting, and others. You can see more details here: https://kite.com/security and specific instructions here http://help.kite.com/article/7-w...
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Alex Wolkov ☭
@altryne · UX, Front End
@antonio_bustamante Thanks for the reply!
I just read the blog post on security and move to the cloud, and the /security landing page.
I'm still not convinced, since you guys don't have a track-record yet, maybe after this project picks up some traction.
Additional thoughts after playing with Kite on some personal projects, the MAIN issues that you solve are behind the PRO-plan and it makes the whole thing useless for free-tier. Autocomplete is nice, but the patterns is the biggest promise I think of this tool, and charging for that, when developers already overpay for IDE and tools, on a yearly basis, seems like a strech personally. If you ask someone to submit their codebase for this thing to work, it seems only fair that the results of that submission would be free for that user.
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Richard kim
@cwrichardkim · dev | Google, privacy.com, Drift, twindr
@altryne @antonio_bustamante This also prevents me from using kite :( particularly that I had to come to producthunt to find out how to whitelist directories and by default it whitelists root
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