It’s fun to build things like this but if you want to nourish a user base you need to fully understand the landscape of similar tools and then explain your differentiating value. This is /particularly/ important for security related tools.
Specifically you should compare and contrast to tools like SOPS, Ansible Vault, pass, etc.
Or you could just build things for fun. Why do we have to care about "nourishing a user base"? Two decades ago we would build software and release it for fun and utility.
> Specifically you should compare and contrast to tools like SOPS, Ansible Vault, pass, etc.
This Github star hunting—, CV padding—, make-it-big-and-BDFL-yourself—approach to open source that has crept in over the last decade is bewildering and rather unpleasant.
ecb_penguin|8 months ago
> Specifically you should compare and contrast to tools like SOPS, Ansible Vault, pass, etc.
What a boring proposition for hobby projects.
janfoeh|8 months ago
This Github star hunting—, CV padding—, make-it-big-and-BDFL-yourself—approach to open source that has crept in over the last decade is bewildering and rather unpleasant.