[zhengt]

Hi - Warp engineer here! Fully understand your disappointment and hesitation.

The terminal is totally free for individuals. The general philosophy is that we would never charge for anything a terminal currently does. So no paywalls around SSH or anything like that.

You're totally right in that the collaborative/audit features are a good fit for being paid features. Our business model will be around charging companies for team features.

For our public beta, we do send telemetry and we do associate it with the logged in user because it makes it much easier to reach out and get feedback when something goes wrong. But we only track metadata, never console input or output. For an exhaustive list of events that we track, see here: https://docs.warp.dev/getting-started/privacy#exhaustive-tel.... If this is uncomfortable to you, please wait for Warp to enter General Availability. At that point our plan is to make telemetry opt-in and anonymous.

[atonse]

I actually have no issue with free/paid. It’s the login requirement that’s bothering me. But you’re saying that’s the part that’s used by telemetry?

[zhengt]

Right now, login is required while we're in Open Beta.

When we GA, login will be opt-in (although you'd lose some of our cooler features).

[atonse]

Makes sense. Hope you guys get another chance at the front page after removing telemetry that has put off so many of us from trying out the product.