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Dolt is Git for data

(www.dolthub.com)
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peteforde ◴[] No.22734564[source]
Only 39 days since the last "GitHub for data" was announced: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22375774

I'll say what I said in February: I started a company with the same premise 9 years ago, during the prime "big data" hype cycle. We burned through a lot of investor money only to realize that there was not a market opportunity to capture. That is, many people thought it was cool - we even did co-sponsored data contests with The Economist - but at the end of the day, we couldn't find anyone with an urgent problem that they were willing to pay to solve.

I wish these folks luck! Perhaps things have changed; we were part of a flock of 5 or 10 similar projects and I'm pretty sure the only one still around today is Kaggle.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWMjQhhxhQ4

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ken ◴[] No.22735030[source]
That's GitHub for data. It's a service, and they still haven't launched anything yet.

This is Git for data. It's a program, and it appears to be an open-source one you can download and use today.

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pavlov ◴[] No.22735037[source]
The OP points to a site called DoltHub.com, so it’s not like they don’t have ambitions to commercialize as another “GitHub for data”.
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1. ken ◴[] No.22737491[source]
Sure, but the existence of GitHub has only helped Git grow, not hurt it.