If you recall, ClusterHQ created FlockerHub, and wanted to be "Git for Data". Then in December of 2016, right before the holidays, ClusterHQ abruptly shutdown [1] [2].

Coincidentally, I had interviewed there a month before. After going through the process and meeting the team I was left feeling the mission and product were too much a solution in search of a problem, so I passed. Then while I was living it up in Hawaii I was shell shocked to learn they'd abruptly closed up shop, with a public blog post titled "Cluster F*cked" [1].

Now I keep seeing these Quilt job postings on HN and am left wondering, is it more or less the same thing? A solution in search of a problem? What is different about Quilt vs. ClusterHQ?

Quilt's homepage seems to be selling the exact same pipe dream story and hawking similar wares...

[0] https://quilt-data.breezy.hr/p/15c4a8807cf6-technical-lead

[1] http://archive.is/vjiLw

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13239032