Many people before me have already pointed out many of the pain points of this project, but I'd like to ask you a few more things.

I'd like to start by congratulating though, this is no small feat!

As I understand it, this project requires an online connection to a hosted service. Said service is complex/heavy enough that it requires a k8s cluster or similar to run on, with databases, object storage, queues ecc.. Many already pointed out the unnecessary complexity, but the first thing i think of is: > I'm never going to use this for my projects.

As in: My laptop is full of dozens, maybe hundreds of started/ongoing/stalled/failed/abandoned projects, Only a fraction of those ever leave my machine.

I can start a project with a local git repo as easily as one folder and one command, and have peace of mind knowing that i can still record any change i make and archive the important stuff if it ever takes off.

What about checking out other people's work? To contribute now i either need my own compute, or have access to someone else's compute.

This all screams expensive , and we haven't even mentioned AI.

As a few already said, uploading every keystroke seems madness to me. I may be not as good a developer as others, but I constantly do things that I would not want uploaded anywhere, sometimes use dirty hacks like hardcoding secrets for testing. Let's not kid ourselves, we've all been in a position where the code was not well structured and we had to put in a magic string to make things work. Now the peace of mind that comes from the `watch` command made you upload everything, and maybe someone else's repo has already been auto-rebased onto it.

I get that you can not use the auto `watch` command, but it seems to me the whole project is centered around it.

Git is portable, I can share a folder/tarball and be done with it, this seems like google docs for coding, could I change provider if I wanted to? Backups now seem a fairly complicated ordeal.

As a side note, I've worked for one large national telco, I couldn't believe the amount of times servers broke or the VPN/Firewall/Wifi/network fairies had a bad day. Having the entire VCS be online only leaves me with an unshakeable scary feeling.

The only environment in which I see this being a possibly reasonable choice is an enterprise one. Unless someone makes a bet and starts offering a hosted version this looks to me simply not it for one developer, too expensive/complicated for a small group, yet too new for a large organization. And without the drive that comes from single developers that know how to use and trust it, the adoptions comes down to a bet made by some manager.

If i had to make one question, what is the future that you forsee for Grace? How would you spread its adoption without individual developers using it?