Notes on Cloudron, crowdfunding app packaging
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I put together a bunch of notes on Cloudron, including hosting costs for some setups https://bmannconsulting.com/notes/cloudron/
My next goal is to get some funding for developing images of a couple of different apps.
I’ll post about them here when I write up more about them, but I wanted to ask if anyone has thoughts on “crowdfunding” creation of packaging and maintenance of apps over time?
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@robi yep! The dual edge sword of "fund the feature" and "fund the long term maintenance" has always been a challenge in open source.
It might be interesting for active members here to make a stack ranked list of the apps they run a lot / would "vote for".
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@bmann the App Wishlist category can already be ordered by upvotes which gives as a pretty good idea of relative interest of each app
@jdaviescoates not by paying licenses, which is what most aligns with Cloudron’s business model and effort required.
Also, people don’t change their votes. There’s a “decay function”. Maybe I loved AppX when it came out, but want AppY now.
Anyway, this is most interesting to look at over an arc of years, and hopefully Cloudron can continue to be sustainable.
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@bmann Thanks. Did you make your blog available via IPFS too? Cool!
Please mention on your page why more than one domain name would be useful.
@LoudLemur _DNSLink is a feature of the IPFS protocol that you map a TXT record of the hash of the root of your published website or app and then CNAME at a single IPFS gateway. This means you don’t need to run a gateway for each domain.
