Yeah I run an HFT firm. Apart from that, why does it matter? This isn't finance! But of course, rayfish is NOT production ready. For home servers might be ok. BUT NOT PRODUCTION READY
Because it's security related, the trust needed to consider using it is just higher.
Trust at two levels: who are you? What HFT firm do you run? How do we know you are actually this HFT leader? What are you doing in the HFT firm that lends credibility to build a project like this? I.e. if you lead the sales team, and have no software dev background, it doesn't increase trust in this project. If you built all the software for the HFT firm, that matters.
Since it's security related, we want there to be signals in the project that we can trust it to not start sending all our data to some bad actor state or org.
Then there is trust at the code level... Does it work? Will it continue to work?
You built it in two weeks because, for the last four years, you were busy with other things. If you get busy again, will the project lag for the next four years?
You don't owe us any of these answers. It's OSS, engage at whatever level you want. But, understand that when you publish your efforts to a place like HN, we are going to find and mention the things that make us uncomfortable.
That said, it's a good sign that people are pushing back. It is a cool project and fits a real need. So if you can increase the trust signals in the project, I think you will get more users... If you really want them. More users means more critique. :)
I hope you do make an effort to increase the trust signals and keep working on the project because I'd like to use it.
I think it's too much. I don't feel like I need to justify myself. You can read the code.
But anyways, first of all; you can see we run a trading company called Infinite Field (https://github.com/infinitefield) and we trade on a decentralized venue called Hyperliquid. You can check the leaderboard there, we are in the top 15 or so. We are doing more than just trading there, we also run a validator with 0 revenue on our side. We charge no fees. Although maintenance cost is high (20k/month). We also built an SDK for users building in Hyperliquid because the official one was not good enough (https://github.com/infinitefield/hypersdk). No other market maker is going to do that. Mostly.
Also, I built and released our in-house websocket library (https://github.com/infinitefield/yawc) because I consider it to be better than tokio-websockets or tungstenite. Why is it better? It supports compression (which no other does) and WASM (that one was pre-LLMs so code is mine alone hehe).
> You built it in two weeks because, for the last four years, you were busy with other things. If you get busy again, will the project lag for the next four years?
I am always busy. But I want to deliver a minimum set of features that will work without me. You can see the open issues and PRs. All of the work is being made transparently on Github. I also use the product myself and I hope I can use it internally at my company too.
If you want to reach out to me you can do it over email or telegram (ask for it) and I am 24/7 online.
When I say the idea was sitting idle for 4 years; it basically means I was a guy from a town in Spain and I had to do something to get out of there. Although I contributed a lot to opensource when I was younger (check https://github.com/dgrr) it didn't pay the bills!
So it took me 4 years to reach a level in which I feel comfortable dedicating some time to opensource stuff like hypersdk, yawc or now rayfish (actually more than 4 years, but rayfish was there for that amount of time).
I am very transparent. I'll open up my X account so you can engage more directly with me if you want.
It's the attention economy. You're engaging in something that is related to privacy and security, thus the credibility of the author in this domain will also be a factor for people wanting to invest their time exploring these solutions.
To not care who you are would mean not only having to review the current code as is, but to review every update that follows as possibly written by a hostile party. Ie, the time invested would be several times of that invested in something written by a more trusted party.
Ah I understand that. Good thing is you dont need to trust me! You can just read the code. And PRs are welcome, and over time more maintainers. You can also fork it. It has MPL-2.0 license to ensure code is always open.
In terms of the credentials; again, it is not a product like Bitcoin.
I am not a researcher from some university. I don't even have a computer science degree. So I don't oblige to "credentials".
I am an entrepreneur, I had some ideas. One of those ideas is rayfish. I like to give back to groups or people. I live in a country where I pay no taxes so I can donate part of that to cat shelters from my homecountry and in this case I open-sourced rayfish because I think it is a good product many people like me will enjoy.
Trust at two levels: who are you? What HFT firm do you run? How do we know you are actually this HFT leader? What are you doing in the HFT firm that lends credibility to build a project like this? I.e. if you lead the sales team, and have no software dev background, it doesn't increase trust in this project. If you built all the software for the HFT firm, that matters.
Since it's security related, we want there to be signals in the project that we can trust it to not start sending all our data to some bad actor state or org.
Then there is trust at the code level... Does it work? Will it continue to work?
You built it in two weeks because, for the last four years, you were busy with other things. If you get busy again, will the project lag for the next four years?
You don't owe us any of these answers. It's OSS, engage at whatever level you want. But, understand that when you publish your efforts to a place like HN, we are going to find and mention the things that make us uncomfortable.
That said, it's a good sign that people are pushing back. It is a cool project and fits a real need. So if you can increase the trust signals in the project, I think you will get more users... If you really want them. More users means more critique. :)
I hope you do make an effort to increase the trust signals and keep working on the project because I'd like to use it.