UPM's philosophy is to use a lockfile to specify dependency constraints. The first time you press run and UPM guesses which packages satisfy which import statements, those versions are put into the lockfile.
Can the user read/export the lockfile in a portable format (e.g. requirements.txt)? I love the idea of magic like this, but I'm less keen if it comes at the price of lock-in. (And feel free point me to the docs!)
No magic, it's automating and hooking into existing open-source tools. For Python its poetry (https://python-poetry.org/), not requirements.txt because UPM needs to present strong guarantees on reproducibility -- otherwise things like content-addressable caching wouldn't be possible. Poetry is open-source and UPM is too: https://github.com/replit/upm
Every Replit Python project can be downloaded and you'll have the spec file and the lock file so you can install the same dependencies locally.
Yeah, that sentence made me choke on my tea. I've been vaguely planning to apply to YC for winter '09 as by then I've hopefully sorted the cofounder issue, but if it's going to take that long to sort out the immigration crap I'd rather spend my energy elsewhere.
Put an example on the front page. Show a site before and after a change, along with the resulting RSS entry. The quality of the diffs will determine whether I want to subscribe.
"The networks are designed to let business professionals exchange information such as business leads, job candidate referrals, and new product ideas, or develop networks for groups of people with similar interests and concerns, such as women."
You know those women, always having the same interests and concerns.
