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Comment by newman314

1 year ago

So I took a quick look at the codebase.

Here are the commits from the founders:

* https://github.com/trypear/pearai-submodule/commits?author=n... (71 commits)

* https://github.com/trypear/pearai-submodule/commits?author=F... (21 commits)

This is what got funded... I leave it to folks to decide if the changes to date are meaningful.

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nusl  1 year ago

If that is indeed what got funded, those changes appear to be extremely minimal and benign and I can understand why people would have an issue with funding this.

  • nojvek  1 year ago

    Chrome + Electron codebase is a gazillion lines of code.

    If someone builds an electron app and gets VC funded, is that somehow unethical?

    Lines of code is irrelevant. Only issue is if they are building on top of a codebase whose license they have violated.

    • komali2  1 year ago

      I don't know much about this codebase and I am probably one of the dumber people on this site (that's ok, I'm happy and eat well), but take a closer look at some of these commits:

      https://github.com/trypear/pearai-submodule/commit/bf67ece35...

      Just dd a promptfrom one object and p it to another.

      https://github.com/trypear/pearai-submodule/commit/c59d90a4c...

      change a keyboard shortcut lol

      https://github.com/trypear/pearai-submodule/commit/489004ae0...

      manually set font size in 3 places but remove the variable that would still be valid in 2 places???

      https://github.com/trypear/pearai-submodule/commit/9bbee4c3d...

      made an error message longer

      Now to be fair I've never been paid 270k by coinbase so presumably these guys are a lot smarter than me, but I'm still really confused why they got funded.

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    • nusl  1 year ago

      Well, I looked through the work and it's mostly random config/frontend changes. I don't see a lot of meaningful work done? Whether LoC matters or not, it doesn't change that pretty much nothing was changed.

    • lolinder  1 year ago

      > Lines of code is irrelevant.

      Lines of code is a proxy for "how hard would it be for someone else to do what these guys are doing but better" and the answer here is "not very".

    • falcor84  1 year ago

      > Lines of code is irrelevant.

      Let's take it to the extreme - how much would you fund a "tech startup" that doesn't have any of its own code at all, but rather just has its founder manually press buttons on a third-party tool's GUI?

      Note that I'm not asking whether it's ethical, or even if the service is worth it to a customer (maybe the founder really is good at pressing the right button at the right time) - but would you as a founder fund it, knowing that there's pretty much no barrier-to-entry whatsoever?