I believe it flopped because people simply dont want this kind of device. Maybe because it's seen as recreational (I'd never accept to try to do any work on it) and also because of the high cost. Most people are ok with just a phone.

In the English language, "America" refers to a country. It is synonymous with "The United States of America". I say this as someone who lives in the same continent as that country, but not in the country itself.

Maybe you're thinking of "North America", "South America", or "the Americas".

If that's the case, so be it.

They made a blog post about it [0]. I haven't read it yet, but it might answer your question.

[0]: https://www.warp.dev/blog/warp-is-now-open-source

> You can turn off they AI if you want

Since your company is basically based on this agentic coding thing, i really don't see why anybody would run Warp without AI. Why not use a normal terminal then? Oh yeah, to waste space on disk and to use more RAM: we have plenty

They have interesting features, their initial release had snippets, team sharing, time-saver stuff with a nice UX. Same reason one might use Raycast. I was a paying customer for that release, but when they pivoted I cancelled.

we have a lot of users who like warp as a place to run other coding agents (e.g. claude code, codex) and have tried to improve the experience for those beyond what a typical terminal offers (e.g. code review, file tree)

I personally love the Shift+Cmd+J that jumps to whichever Claude is finished and waiting for my input :P

Warp is a more powerful shell. It has a better UI. I almost never use its AI features.

Donating to the free software you use, even a little, is good.

Not saying its not, I guess the core of my argument is that people are outraged that these guys raised 50 million… how much of that is going to employees and infrastructure? Is the owner sitting on 50 million in his personal bank account? Because the outrage feels very premature, not to mention they just open sourced the project when they really did not need to under any obligation. Far as I can tell they also did a lot of custom work on top of Alacritty, so its not 100% Alacritty.

This whole thread is just bonkers. Dude stop pretending you don't understand the situation here. It's been explained to you multiple times.

> Not sustainable for normal people, let alone people

I hope you are aware of the fact a business makes way more money than a "normal" person?

People are upset they raised 50 million, how many employees? How long does that keep their lights on? Maybe if they were raking in hundreds of millions I would be inclined to be outraged but if I make a startup tomorrow I cant just donate my VC bucks to every open source project I like until I have some real income coming in or my investors will want my head.

You once again drag things in a wildly hyperbolic direction. Nobody's talking about throwing money around wildly at unrelated projects. When there is a single project that sits at your very heart, without which your entire startup is a nonstarter, yes, donate.

This is what AI companies do. They steal stuff and then do not give credit to anyone, not even a "thank you". If doing so was needed to get money, that's what they'd have done. Anyways, i was very surprised to see they chose my favorite free software license -- the AGPLv3

(I like using em-dashes but i'm not a bot)

I didn't suspect you were a bot; I'm a fan of the semicolon and ()'s myself.

Nice, from my understanding, it's supposed to sell digital goods, but can't people just see the url by analizing the HTML with the built-in browser feature?

Thanks for sharing