[westoncb]

Hey Zach, while I think your post is well-intentioned, the contemporary default level of trust around tech companies and data privacy is just very low. As a new entrant to the field, you inherit the default valuation—people have no other info to go off of.

Given that, it's probably the case that the only options are to either be fully open source or to make a fully offline mode an option.

In any case, I think the concept for your product is excellent—it's been mind-boggling to me that something along these lines wasn't tackled years ago, so I look forward to your guys' future success, hopefully moving the state of terminal interaction into the modern era.

[ajxs]

> ...the contemporary default level of trust around tech companies and data privacy is just very low...

It's not just that the level of trust is very low. I shouldn't need to place any trust in the developers of my terminal at all. If I can't know for a fact that it's not acting against my interests, then I'll pass. I already have such a big selection of fully open-source terminals available. Why would I even consider taking any king of risk with this one?

[1123581321]

I can’t speak for you, but generally people at least consider this tradeoff because of the additional utility of the third party tool. Ideally all these features would exist in the system terminal, but that hasn’t happened, and it possibly won’t ever.