[_krii]

Looks like quite a lot of marketing put into this open-source project. Heavyweight glossy website with trendy TLD, emojis everywhere. Is this kind of thing typical in the JS world in particular? Seriously asking.

I'm trying to figure out what they are selling me, or what megacorp they are associated with, but I don't see it yet.

[IMcD23]

And yet, I set out to find what this thing can do. I read the README.

  Today, the most interesting part is about his core and the way he can scale up. He is pretty young but can easily scale to have new features (skills). You can find what he is able to do by browsing the packages list.
  Sounds good for you? Then let's get started!

The packages list is a dead link. https://github.com/leon-ai/leon/tree/develop/packages

[kenny87]

> The packages list is a dead link. https://github.com/leon-ai/leon/tree/develop/packages

From the blog ...

"As of now, 'module' and 'packages' no longer exist. Instead, they’ve been replaced by 'skills'."

New link is https://github.com/leon-ai/leon/tree/develop/skills

[jimktrains2]

All those folders just contain a single json file with the name of the skill category in it? I don't see any actual features?

[revolvingocelot]

Not all those folders. Try utilities or news or leon or games or social_communication. You could be forgiven for thinking it was all of them, though -- not having anything in weather or music_audio, for a moment I thought so too.

[jrm4]

Right? I'm finding this problem everywhere. When checking out new software, it's becoming more and more difficult to determine what to do with "good looking marketing," and it nearly cuts perfectly in roughly 3 ways; you're likely either a dedicated whatever-size team making something great that happens to have good marketing; you're a small team pushing garbage and putting all your money in marketing, or you're a megacorp (e.g. likely not great)

[arisAlexis]

This is overly suspicious. The guy made a nice effort and open sources it. Would you prefer he had it closed source or sold it?

[Louistiti]

Thanks.

[yewenjie]

> Is this kind of thing typical in the JS world in particular?

Yes, pretty common in the frontend world.

[coscorrodrift]

>Heavyweight glossy website with trendy TLD, emojis everywhere. Is this kind of thing typical in the JS world in particular?

yeah in frontend projects/dataviz stuff for sure

[Louistiti]

No mega corp, I'm just a passionate guy who spend my free time to work on Leon. Is there anything wrong with that?

[fxtentacle]

It's a showcase for a front-end framework. See the link at the bottom. https://vercel.com/

[wetmore]

Vercel is not a front-end framework. Also that's a sponsorship link.

[yunohn]

Sure, but vercel has nothing to do with the UI look. It’s a framework for developing the overall application, not the components or designs.