Thanks for your suggestion @james . While I appreciate that this a way an alternative way to make our app available to the Cloudtron community, we invested quite some time to facilitate the inclusion in the official directory building and maintaining (new release twice a year, next in September) the package at the suggestion of @humptydumpty over the past couple of years, then @timconsidine mentioned back last in February that he was going to take care of it, so Im still hopeful.
Given that our entire app ecosystem can also be affordably rebranded by hosting and solution providers or agencies of virtually any size—from a one-person team in Texas to a large media group like Vocento in Spain—to create new revenue streams, I think having validation through the official app store is important for us to be credibly considered by the Community.
Don’t get me wrong, I appreciate everyone is busy, and I understand we’re small fry in the grand scheme of things. But hosted independently via Cloudron, our package offers a much more comprehensive alternative to Shopify, for example—not just ecommerce, but also a CRM, a more innovative Point of Sale, and a very mature and stable open-source CMS stack. Lots of folks are frustrated by Shopify limitations, so there's a good opportunity in this IMHO.
On top of that, we’ve now added a full suite of marketing tools, including automated SEO and AEO with schema and content generation, as well as autonomous marketing that fully works with WordPress as well.
If anyone wants to see it in action, you can open a free account here in 10 mins and within an hour you have a complete month of highly relevant blog and social content ready to publish: https://mojo.seosamba.com/register.html . Just connect a Google or Facebook profile with reviews to test LocalEko. I find what it can do quite astonishing, really and its actually better as you connect more channels like call tracking from the platform.
For many small businesses, SeoToaster Ultimate delivers a tremendous amount of value in a single, largely open and independently hostable platform, built by a small team without VC backing, many of whom are still based in Ukraine, while offering partners a competitive business model. A win over big tech and big money, in my book. Would love to be given the light of day by Cloudtron and its community.
