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confusing branding = harder to sell? #536

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coderofsalvation opened this issue Jul 11, 2024 · 0 comments
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confusing branding = harder to sell? #536

coderofsalvation opened this issue Jul 11, 2024 · 0 comments

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coderofsalvation commented Jul 11, 2024

I'm considering to suggest the hyper:// protocol to an academic community, as they are academic people only interested in a layer which stores/sends (versioned) documents to local devices.

The only thing I've noticed, is that there's no hypercore.org website to organize the protocol.
Instead, for example this repository links to docs.holepunch.to which redirects to docs.pears.com (a bit confusing).
This might make it harder to 'sell' hyper:// as an open protocol.
Imho the hyper > holepunch.to > pears.com rebranding (perceptionally by URL redirects) could potentially give the impression of a startup pivoting to get profitable (while I think your mission is far greater).

My advice would be to maintain slower diverse funnels,

  • hypercore.org -- a neutral place, company-agnostic, where the open protocol is documented, which mentions:
    • holepunch.to -- a company dedicated and experienced with P2P / hypercore
    • pears.com -- a tool which makes hypercore easy to use

This is just my few cents, but that way all projects can become a funnel for eachother, without redirects (because redirects allow the endusers to wonder what happend to the original project ).

@coderofsalvation coderofsalvation changed the title confusing branding = harder to sell confusing branding = harder to sell? Jul 11, 2024
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