I'm particularly excited about FUTO funding Immich [0], a photo management app similar to Google Photos. The money allowed the FUTO devs to go full-time [1]<p>[0] <a href="https://immich.app/" rel="nofollow">https://immich.app/</a><p>[1] <a href="https://immich.app/blog/2024/immich-core-team-goes-fulltime/" rel="nofollow">https://immich.app/blog/2024/immich-core-team-goes-fulltime/</a>
I love the sixth of their "Five Pillars of FUTOey Software":<p>> 0. Don’t Suck This applies to all software, FUTOey or not. We have accomplished nothing if our software is sluggish, unreliable, or lacks key features. Our clients need to be delightful. Our servers need to help our clients be delightful.<p><a href="https://futo.org/about/what-is-futo/" rel="nofollow">https://futo.org/about/what-is-futo/</a>
The feature I'm still missing is having 2 dictionaries active at the same time. I text a lot in both English and German and this not being available prevents me from making the switch
I've switched from SwiftKey to the FUTO keyboard and it's worked well enough that I haven't switched back. After many, many years on SwiftKey that's a huge accomplishment. There's some more advanced features I miss and one broad issue I have with the autocorrection feature, but overall it's quite usable.
Recent discussion on the Keyboard:
<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40831489">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40831489</a>
> <i>From its founding, FUTO has been funded entirely by investment from its sole owner, Eron Wolf.</i><p>This sort of thing concerns me. So if Wolf has a change of heart, suffers some sort of financial catastrophe, etc., then... the project just dies, and any project depending on them for a significant portion of their funding has a crisis?<p>> <i>a few talented engineers can produce delightful software that rivals anything big, established firms can produce.</i><p>Sort of, but... not really? In my experience, more resources means more polish and more scale. It's the usual 80/20 problem: with a small team you can get to 80%, but the last 20% bogs you down <i>forever</i>. Certainly large teams come with their own problems, but that last 20% is <i>hard</i>.<p>In general, though, I love the idea of this. One thing I really want to try out is the FUTO keyboard: I currently use the stock GBoard on my Pixel, but would prefer something that just doesn't connect to the internet at all. I'm curious to know how well their swipe-based keyboard works (GBoard has become so hit-or-miss lately with that), as well as their voice recognition (Google's is of course famously good, but I don't love the privacy implications of sending all the things I might say to my phone to Google's servers).<p>Still, though, privacy-wise: why should I trust this guy? I like what he says on the website, but I've never heard of him, and don't really know anything about him.