Re:Show HN: We use Github Gists to store user data
by mbell on Saturday April 21, 2012 @10:51AM
(#3871896)
No idea why you would think github is a minefield.
> Last I checked they made you perform a bunch of scary crypto stuff on your local machine before they'd let you in.
Generating an SSH key is 'scary crypto stuff' ? One would hope anyone using git, and really any developer would have already done this many times before.
> I gave up at that step, as it would have required downloading and installing a bunch of random software to pull off.
You mean install a single program, git, which is sort of a perquisite for using, well, git? The windows installer includes the programs needed to create an ssh key and macos / almost any *nix distro will already have them installed.
I think its pretty clear that elastic.io is targeted at developers and I can't possibly imagine a developer having any issue signing up for github, installing git and generating an ssh key. If such developers exist they are likely very new to development and thus probably aren't a good match for a beta signup anyway.
> Last I checked they made you perform a bunch of scary crypto stuff on your local machine before they'd let you in.
Generating an SSH key is 'scary crypto stuff' ? One would hope anyone using git, and really any developer would have already done this many times before.
> I gave up at that step, as it would have required downloading and installing a bunch of random software to pull off.
You mean install a single program, git, which is sort of a perquisite for using, well, git? The windows installer includes the programs needed to create an ssh key and macos / almost any *nix distro will already have them installed.
I think its pretty clear that elastic.io is targeted at developers and I can't possibly imagine a developer having any issue signing up for github, installing git and generating an ssh key. If such developers exist they are likely very new to development and thus probably aren't a good match for a beta signup anyway.