Excitedly downloaded this, launched it, and then was met with a login screen. wop wop. I closed it and deleted it.
I don't understand. Why is login a requirement to even use it?
Why not have an excellent free terminal as a way to get people using your tools, and then add the collaborative/audit features as paid features? That way many devs would not only start using this, but can make it a part of their daily workflows.
Hi - Warp engineer here! Fully understand your disappointment and hesitation.
The terminal is totally free for individuals. The general philosophy is that we would never charge for anything a terminal currently does. So no paywalls around SSH or anything like that.
You're totally right in that the collaborative/audit features are a good fit for being paid features. Our business model will be around charging companies for team features.
For our public beta, we do send telemetry and we do associate it with the logged in user because it makes it much easier to reach out and get feedback when something goes wrong. But we only track metadata, never console input or output. For an exhaustive list of events that we track, see here: https://docs.warp.dev/getting-started/privacy#exhaustive-tel.... If this is uncomfortable to you, please wait for Warp to enter General Availability. At that point our plan is to make telemetry opt-in and anonymous.
I don't understand. Why is login a requirement to even use it?
Why not have an excellent free terminal as a way to get people using your tools, and then add the collaborative/audit features as paid features? That way many devs would not only start using this, but can make it a part of their daily workflows.