Once.com

[Dave Swift]

37signals (Basecamp, Hey) is going to offer self-hosted software soon.

If you haven't heard, their new line of products is going to be for sale on once.com and will be completely self hosted.

It would be cool if Cloudron had a way for software like this or other "script" software to be listed in the app store (I'm thinking of things like Perfex, AltumCode, and Sendy).

I know they can be installed with a custom app, but the appeal of Cloudron is the app store!

What do you think of the concept of once.com? Personally, I'm excited to see what they do.

[jdaviescoates]

@Dave-Swift said in Once.com:

37signals (Basecamp, Hey) is going to offer self-hosted software soon.

If you haven't heard, their new line of products is going to be for sale on once.com and will be completely self hosted.

Interesting, thanks for sharing

@Dave-Swift said in Once.com:

It would be cool if Cloudron had a way for software like this or other "script" software to be listed in the app store

I'm not at all sure what you're getting at here?

Only apps packaged for Cloudron can be listed in the Cloudron app store, I don't see how that could possibly change, nor why we'd want it to?

@Dave-Swift said in Once.com:

Perfex, AltumCode, and Sendy

I'd never heard of any of those:

https://perfexcrm.co.uk/
https://altumcode.com/
https://sendy.co/

I'd encourage you to add them all to the App Wishlist if they aren't already on there!

[fbartels]

The question/problem i see with the once.com project is that it greatly depends how they distribute their source and what kind of license management they implement. If they only make the sources available to paying customers, then it is hard to make a Cloudron app out of it. Plus a Cloudron app would at first instance be public, so if they don't include some kind of license check then everybody could run their apps for free.

The same can be said for the other three websites and is at least partly the case for mixpost.

[marcusquinn]

@fbartels agree. Agree with the aims and ideas, but I think they're barking up the wrong tree. You're right, standard open-source plus pro add-ons with annual support is the only business model I can see that's sustainable. Good luck to them for trying, but anything that diverges from standards becomes risk for going stale.

[girish]

Right.. entirely depends on the deployment they offer and also the licensing.