FFffhhj·Aug 27, 2022
Apparently it was a scam:
https://github.com/ZasEditor/Zas-Editor-Issues/issues/65
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Zas-Editor-Issues
Public repository to track Zas Editor's bugs.
2Distinct people
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5GitHub stars
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What it is
Public repository to track Zas Editor's bugs.
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Observed mentions: 2022-05-19 08:25:41 UTC to 2022-08-27 21:51:54 UTC. Weeks start Monday, UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| May 16 | 2022-05-16 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-05-23 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| May 23 | 2022-05-23 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-05-30 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| May 30 | 2022-05-30 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-06-06 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jun 6 | 2022-06-06 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-06-13 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jun 13 | 2022-06-13 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-06-20 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jun 20 | 2022-06-20 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-06-27 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jun 27 | 2022-06-27 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-07-04 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 4 | 2022-07-04 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-07-11 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 11 | 2022-07-11 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-07-18 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 18 | 2022-07-18 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-07-25 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 25 | 2022-07-25 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 1 | 2022-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-08-08 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 8 | 2022-08-08 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-08-15 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 15 | 2022-08-15 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-08-22 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 22 | 2022-08-22 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-08-29 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
What Hacker News says
2 sources> projects disappear.
This was a commercial editor released not even a month ago.
For a Mac-only, commercial piece of software there were more positive comments than I'd expected to be honest.
The developer responded for the first few days, but then stopped completely, along with disappearing downloads and now web-site. After that "splash", nothing.
I treat is as fraud (or whichever legal term applies - if any, we were perhaps just gullible) due to the short timespan between release and disappearance, but the editor seemed interesting, such as its navigate mode.
So the question is whether the developer just felt overwhelmed and gave up, or someone else's code was used to compile a minimal working version to set up a scam, or something else completely. The app was also notarised, which requires a paid Apple dev account.
As mentioned on the
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Zas github issues, which is still there, it's an odd choice for a scam considering the small target group.
https://github.com/ZasEditor/Zas-Editor-Issues/issues/65