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Hydra 1.0

by SmileyKeith on 7/25/14, 3:49 PM with 29 comments

• by antirez on 7/25/14, 4:11 PM

  From the home page it is impossible to tell what the program exactly does. The "documentation" link seems like designed to be impossible to find ;-) Reading the documentation ideas are not introduced in natural order considering that people don't know what you are taking about. Because I'm interested in what the program could do, I'm still trying to figure it out btw... This feedback is here only because I see you have a "buy license" thing and I want your business to succeed, and the current setup is limiting this IMHO.

• by sdegutis on 7/25/14, 4:10 PM

  Author here. Happy to answer your questions in this thread.

  Except for bug reports or feature requests, file those at https://github.com/sdegutis/hydra/issues instead.

• by daschwa on 7/25/14, 5:18 PM

  Do you still plan to keep the project opensource now that you have a license available to purchase?

• by colinramsay on 7/25/14, 4:36 PM

  Discussion from a few weeks back:

  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7982514

• by AndrewHampton on 7/25/14, 4:18 PM

  I've been using hydra for a few weeks now and love it so far. Great work sdegutis!

  Here's my config for anyone who's curious: https://github.com/andrewhampton/dotfiles

• by akama on 7/25/14, 4:19 PM

  It seems the Mac OSX window manager Phoenix has been deprecation in favor of this new program. I am looking forward to trying it out. Thanks for all the work.

• by cmsj on 7/25/14, 3:59 PM

  Woo! Love this tool :)

• by Svenstaro on 7/25/14, 4:14 PM

  This seems to be doing the exactly wrong thing to do. In the Windows times, these things were called desktop macros. The GUI is not made for being scripted, even less so by moving the mouse.

  I know this sounds negative and you probably put a lot of effort into that but if it is what it seems like it is, then I find it horribly wrong.