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# Launch plan (drafts — nothing here is posted; posting is Snow's call)
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Stage-1 launch: the goal is strangers who care — stars, issues, first
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outside users — not signups or revenue. Sequence: quiet HN → learnings →
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Product Hunt → Launch-Week-style feature cadence as Cloud approaches.
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## Show HN (primary)
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**Title (pick one):**
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1. `Show HN: BearDrive – open-source Google Drive for AI agents`
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2. `Show HN: A shared folder where your team's AI agents read and write — with attribution`
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3. `Show HN: BearDrive – give every agent on your team the same folder as memory`
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**Body draft:**
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> BearDrive mounts any folder as a synced volume for a team *and their
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> AI agents*: files sync through a self-hostable hub in seconds, every
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> change is attributed to the human/agent/device that made it, and the
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> hub shows what your agents actually read.
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> Why we built it: our agents kept re-deriving context that a teammate's
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> agent had already figured out. Memory APIs felt wrong — we wanted
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> real files on disk (agents are great at files), with provenance. So:
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> append-only per-device journals, last-writer-wins replay,
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> content-addressed blobs (all history retained), offline-first, one Go
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> binary for CLI + daemon + hub. AGPL; a managed cloud will fund it.
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>
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> The part we like most: read telemetry. Agent hooks report which files
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> agents consume, so the Insights view shows "hot but stale" knowledge —
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> docs everyone's agents rely on that no one maintains.
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> Happy to answer anything about the sync design (no locks — no object
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> ever has two writers), the AGPL choice, or the agent hooks.
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**First-comment (founder voice) draft:** technical deep-dive offer —
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"the whole concurrency story is that no object has two writers: each
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device appends to its own journal; replay is deterministic," + link to
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CLAUDE.md's invariants. Answer every comment for the first 3 hours.
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2026-07-15 12:05:09 -07:00
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**Prep checklist:** install path verified from a clean machine
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(`brew install runbear-io/tap/beardrive && bdrive version` — a 404 tap on
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2026-07-15 12:13:44 -07:00
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launch day is fatal), full first-run verified against a working hub (handoff #6), demo GIF live in README (handoff #8), Discussions
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2026-07-15 11:56:14 -07:00
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enabled, `docs/self-hosting.md` linked from README, hub demo instance
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warm (expect self-host attempts within minutes).
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## Product Hunt (after HN, separate day)
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- **Tagline:** "The open-source Google Drive for AI agents"
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- **Description:** One folder your whole team and their agents share —
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synced in seconds, every change attributed, read analytics included.
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Self-host in one Go binary, or join the cloud waitlist.
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- **First comment:** the HN body, warmer tone, plus the 60s demo video.
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## Launch-Week cadence (when Cloud nears — one artifact/day)
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1. **Sync core** — the journal/replay design post ("no locks, no two
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writers").
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2. **Attribution & history** — every change knows who/what/where; time
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travel is already free (blobs retained).
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3. **Share links** — files as public pages; sandboxed HTML.
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4. **Insights** — the read×staleness quadrant; what agents actually
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read.
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5. **The Claude Code plugin** — `/beardrive:install`, two-file AGENTS.md
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orientation, `bdrive url` links in agent replies.
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Each day: a blog-able writeup + a tweet-length version + a repo artifact
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(doc or demo). Drafts to be written per-day when scheduled.
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## Not part of launch
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Pricing (Cloud is waitlist-only), enterprise pages, paid promotion, and
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any claim of traction we don't have.
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