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Snow LeeandClaude Fable 5 3422d3509f feat(gtm): round 3 — never default a stranger into a dead cloud

Reviewer round 3 (9/7/9/8/7/9) caught the sharpest truth bug yet: the
README quickstart's bare 'bdrive login' defaults to beardrive.ai, which
is waitlist-only and not accepting logins — a launch-day visitor's
first command would fail silently. Fixes:

- quickstart step 1 now routes to self-hosting ('bdrive login
  https://your-hub', ~10-minute guide linked) with Cloud honestly
  framed as waitlist; website closer promises 'Self-host in one
  binary' instead of 'under a minute, done'
- handoff gains a P0 gate: verify the FULL first run (login → init →
  edit → log) against a working hub before any launch; bare 'bdrive
  login' must not be advertised until Cloud accepts logins
- handoff: seed 3-5 good-first-issues (CONTRIBUTING promises them);
  replace the mailto waitlist with a real form before Product Hunt
- README trimmed 583→524 lines: the Authentication and Choosing-a-
  database operator reference moved verbatim into docs/self-hosting.md
  with a compact pointer left behind

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01P5cxPQdSGJnjXCYY9GeWXt

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Launch plan (drafts — nothing here is posted; posting is Snow's call)

Stage-1 launch: the goal is strangers who care — stars, issues, first outside users — not signups or revenue. Sequence: quiet HN → learnings → Product Hunt → Launch-Week-style feature cadence as Cloud approaches.

Show HN (primary)

Title (pick one):

Show HN: BearDrive – open-source Google Drive for AI agents
Show HN: A shared folder where your team's AI agents read and write — with attribution
Show HN: BearDrive – give every agent on your team the same folder as memory

Body draft:

BearDrive mounts any folder as a synced volume for a team and their AI agents: files sync through a self-hostable hub in seconds, every change is attributed to the human/agent/device that made it, and the hub shows what your agents actually read.

Why we built it: our agents kept re-deriving context that a teammate's agent had already figured out. Memory APIs felt wrong — we wanted real files on disk (agents are great at files), with provenance. So: append-only per-device journals, last-writer-wins replay, content-addressed blobs (all history retained), offline-first, one Go binary for CLI + daemon + hub. AGPL; a managed cloud will fund it.

The part we like most: read telemetry. Agent hooks report which files agents consume, so the Insights view shows "hot but stale" knowledge — docs everyone's agents rely on that no one maintains.

Happy to answer anything about the sync design (no locks — no object ever has two writers), the AGPL choice, or the agent hooks.

First-comment (founder voice) draft: technical deep-dive offer — "the whole concurrency story is that no object has two writers: each device appends to its own journal; replay is deterministic," + link to CLAUDE.md's invariants. Answer every comment for the first 3 hours.

Prep checklist: install path verified from a clean machine (brew install runbear-io/tap/beardrive && bdrive version — a 404 tap on launch day is fatal), full first-run verified against a working hub (handoff #6), demo GIF live in README (handoff #8), Discussions enabled, docs/self-hosting.md linked from README, hub demo instance warm (expect self-host attempts within minutes).

Product Hunt (after HN, separate day)

Tagline: "The open-source Google Drive for AI agents"
Description: One folder your whole team and their agents share — synced in seconds, every change attributed, read analytics included. Self-host in one Go binary, or join the cloud waitlist.
First comment: the HN body, warmer tone, plus the 60s demo video.

Launch-Week cadence (when Cloud nears — one artifact/day)

Sync core — the journal/replay design post ("no locks, no two writers").
Attribution & history — every change knows who/what/where; time travel is already free (blobs retained).
Share links — files as public pages; sandboxed HTML.
Insights — the read×staleness quadrant; what agents actually read.
The Claude Code plugin — /beardrive:install, two-file AGENTS.md orientation, bdrive url links in agent replies.

Each day: a blog-able writeup + a tweet-length version + a repo artifact (doc or demo). Drafts to be written per-day when scheduled.

Not part of launch

Pricing (Cloud is waitlist-only), enterprise pages, paid promotion, and any claim of traction we don't have.

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