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jacob-jackson commented on Show HN: Supermaven, the first code completion tool with 300k token context supermaven.com/blog/intro... · Posted by u/jacob-jackson

solumunus · 2 years ago

I signed up for the free trial and downloaded the extension. All I'm getting is a blank command prompt window "sm-agent.exe" that opens when I open VS code. So yeh, it's just not working for me at all. Tried opening VS Code as admin and no difference. Any suggestions?

jacob-jackson · 2 years ago

Sorry to hear that. I'm not sure what's causing this. Could you share your Windows and VS Code version to help us reproduce the issue?

sm-agent.exe is supposed to be started as a subprocess by the extension. It shouldn't be in its own window.

jacob-jackson commented on Show HN: Supermaven, the first code completion tool with 300k token context supermaven.com/blog/intro... · Posted by u/jacob-jackson

anigbrowl · 2 years ago

How about just not having one? i am often interested to try things but I am not giving out my CC until I've tried it out, FOMO be damned. I don't want the burden of cancellation if I decide it's not for me, I've been burned before by forgetting and paying for a service I didn't want.

jacob-jackson · 2 years ago

We think this is the most sustainable option because there is a cost to providing a quality service. We take a small loss on every user who cancels their free trial - more than a typical SaaS because AI models are expensive to serve.

jacob-jackson commented on Show HN: Supermaven, the first code completion tool with 300k token context supermaven.com/blog/intro... · Posted by u/jacob-jackson

reaperman · 2 years ago

This goes against the guidelines for "Show HN". You can still post it, but generally it won't qualify for the Show HN moniker. You can review the rules for Show HN here: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

> Please make it easy for users to try your thing out, ideally without barriers such as signups or emails.

"Without signups or emails" definitely implies without credit card authorization!

jacob-jackson · 2 years ago

I didn't realize that. I would have posted without the Show HN tag if I had read that carefully.

jacob-jackson commented on Show HN: Supermaven, the first code completion tool with 300k token context supermaven.com/blog/intro... · Posted by u/jacob-jackson

a2128 · 2 years ago

Your privacy policy[0] doesn't seem to mention any of this. How is the data being used? I'm not very certain about inputting my data into any tool that uploads to cloud and there's no valid privacy policy

[0] https://supermaven.com/privacy-policy

jacob-jackson · 2 years ago

We should update the site to be clearer about this. There is a 7-day data retention limit listed in https://supermaven.com/pricing.

jacob-jackson commented on Show HN: Supermaven, the first code completion tool with 300k token context supermaven.com/blog/intro... · Posted by u/jacob-jackson

spdustin · 2 years ago

- No details at all on the official extension page in VSCode - I bite the bullet and try anyway - No immediate confirmation after setup - Only one configuration option (log file path) - After I start typing into a buffer, the onboarding notification requires sign-in - Sure, why not - "Link to IDE?" - heck yeah, let's finally go - Sign up for a trial - um... - Requires a CC for a 30-day free trial

Respectfully, this is a terrible experience.

jacob-jackson · 2 years ago

Sorry. We should be more clear about the CC being required to sign up for the free trial.

jacob-jackson commented on Show HN: Supermaven, the first code completion tool with 300k token context supermaven.com/blog/intro... · Posted by u/jacob-jackson

pr337h4m · 2 years ago

Off topic, but do you have any plans for same.energy? No image search tool has surpassed it even after two years.

jacob-jackson · 2 years ago

I'm happy to hear that. I don't have any specific plans for same.energy at the moment other than to keep the site up.

jacob-jackson commented on Show HN: Supermaven, the first code completion tool with 300k token context supermaven.com/blog/intro... · Posted by u/jacob-jackson

falleng0d · 2 years ago

Impressed by the completion speed. It really changes everything... again.

Do you have plans to add a chat feature and IntelliJ plugin?

jacob-jackson · 2 years ago

Glad to hear it. We'll add an IntelliJ plugin next week.

We may add a chat feature if we can make one good enough that we're happy with the quality.

jacob-jackson commented on Show HN: Supermaven, the first code completion tool with 300k token context supermaven.com/blog/intro... · Posted by u/jacob-jackson

vlovich123 · 2 years ago

Does this involve uploading the git project to Supermaven and code completions are done in the cloud or is all this running locally? Or is it hybrid where there’s some cloud processing and inference happens locally?

jacob-jackson · 2 years ago

All the processing happens in the cloud. It will upload the git repository you use it on. We retain the data for a maximum of 7 days.

jacob-jackson commented on Show HN: Supermaven, the first code completion tool with 300k token context supermaven.com/blog/intro... · Posted by u/jacob-jackson

Nevin1901 · 2 years ago

Interesting launch. I saw you were the original founder of tabnine. I’m curious as to what you’ve learned since you launched tabnine in 2018, and why you’re deciding to create another code completion ide extension.

Will be trying this out.

jacob-jackson · 2 years ago

I had the idea for the technology first and decided that code completion was the application where it would be the most useful. It's a proven market with Copilot having over $100M ARR.

There are lots of other potential use cases for the technology, but they involve more business risk (ie, the risk that you create a technically sound product that isn't very useful).

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