Launch Date Disputes

Users debate and correct the launch or start dates of a featured project or software, citing GitHub commits, old HN submissions, Internet Archive, and READMEs to show it predates recent claims.

📉 Falling 0.5x Open Source
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Topic ID

Activity Over Time

2007
6
2008
37
2009
49
2010
85
2011
151
2012
147
2013
179
2014
195
2015
235
2016
220
2017
274
2018
252
2019
269
2020
287
2021
382
2022
444
2023
480
2024
364
2025
377
2026
41

Keywords

AppImage FiftyThree last.fm XAR V1 PR MVP NAMM HN twitter.com launched 2013 2014 started 2011 2009 2012 wikipedia year founded

Sample Comments

maxerickson Dec 24, 2013 View on HN

Looking at github it appears they started building it in 2010.

nafizh Apr 30, 2017 View on HN

It seems this has been available since 2013.

mariusor Jan 26, 2022 View on HN

That's very interesting, thank you for taking the time to reply. I based what I said on trying it sometime in 2007-2008, which looking at the commit history seems to be very close to when it was actually launched. I had no idea it was maintained for all this time, so it definitely warrants a new look. :)

tastemykungfu Aug 15, 2022 View on HN

Apparently they have launched 2 years ago.. And I havn't even heard of them?

habitue May 13, 2021 View on HN

Wow, didn't realize this was started in 2013

21echoes Aug 7, 2014 View on HN

according to version history, it's been there since 2011...

drtse4 Jun 15, 2015 View on HN

Looks like it's there since 2011-11-28.

majewsky Dec 12, 2017 View on HN

Years, yes. At least since 2.0, though probably longer.

dang Aug 18, 2020 View on HN

What year do you suggest we put in the title above? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21039848 said 2017 but clearly the project goes back earlier.

awalton Dec 5, 2017 View on HN

Cute that you think this started in 2016...