Easy Indie App—Run your own X in a few clicks

[rosano]

@humptydumpty thanks for the tip, strange that the button wasn't there before, maybe it's not enabled for new accounts or something.

[rosano]

thanks again for all your great feedback. i have truly underestimated how important it is to browse via list and will make sure to add that next and let you all know. i actually had that working before and took it out!

re: the discussion about comparing platforms, i thought i had built in a filter for platforms but apparently i didn't, so i quickly deployed that now. you can search for 'yunohost' for example and see the apps that are there. might be easier to spot which ones aren't yet on cloudron. and of course there is the export of project data https://easyindie.app/projects.json for those who like to wrangle json.

[timconsidine]

So I just went through the Yunohost list of apps
From their site, not @rosano digest
I clicked on 20+ links to view docs and code for various apps
Over half resulted in 404 errors
This just sums up Yunohost for me.
Frankly, even though I would love to love it, it suggests a hobbyist project, and doesn't give me confidence to use yunohost.
I would rather invest the time in learning how to package my own apps for Cloudron.
I don't like to be negative or rude, but Yunohost gives self-hosting a bad name. IMHO of course.

[rosano]

The number one feedback from various communities is to show the apps as a list instead of icons, made a small update for this today. Hope it's easier to navigate:

https://easyindie.app/glance

[girish]

Just saw another list today - https://www.btw.so/open-source-alternatives

[rosano]

@girish Interesting, there seem to be many 'alternative' lists like this:

• Apps – TROM-Jaro https://www.tromjaro.com/apps/
• Google Alternatives 2020: Best Privacy Friendly Alternatives https://justprivacy.org/google-alternatives/
• Ethical Alternatives & Resources - ethical.net https://ethical.net/resources/
• switching.software | Ethical, easy-to-use and privacy-conscious alternatives to well-known software https://switching.software/
• degoogle | A huge list of alternatives to Google products. Privacy tips, tricks, and links. https://degoogle.jmoore.dev/

but BTW focuses on open-source. None seem to focus on 'easy to install' though…

[micmc]

@girish said in Easy Indie App—Run your own X in a few clicks:

Just saw another list today - https://www.btw.so/open-source-alternatives

Nice find indeed

[jdaviescoates]

@rosano said in Easy Indie App—Run your own X in a few clicks:

@girish Interesting, there seem to be many 'alternative' lists like this:

• Apps – TROM-Jaro https://www.tromjaro.com/apps/
• Google Alternatives 2020: Best Privacy Friendly Alternatives https://justprivacy.org/google-alternatives/
• Ethical Alternatives & Resources - ethical.net https://ethical.net/resources/
• switching.software | Ethical, easy-to-use and privacy-conscious alternatives to well-known software https://switching.software/
• degoogle | A huge list of alternatives to Google products. Privacy tips, tricks, and links. https://degoogle.jmoore.dev/

but BTW focuses on open-source. None seem to focus on 'easy to install' though…

https://alternativeto.net/ is handy too.

I also find https://selfhosted.libhunt.com/ useful for finding and comparing apps.

[jdaviescoates]

@micmc said in Easy Indie App—Run your own X in a few clicks:

@girish said in Easy Indie App—Run your own X in a few clicks:

Just saw another list today - https://www.btw.so/open-source-alternatives

Nice find indeed

Yeah btw.so itself looks/ sounds like it'll be a useful app to add to the wishlist once it's ready. I just asked and they said:

Yes, it will be possible to self-host btw and the code will available soon (we're pre-launch)!

[jdaviescoates]

@jdaviescoates said in Easy Indie App—Run your own X in a few clicks:

Yeah btw.so itself looks/ sounds like it'll be a useful app to add to the wishlist once it's ready. I just asked and they said:

Yes, it will be possible to self-host btw and the code will available soon (we're pre-launch)!

It is now possible to self-host so I've just added it to the wishlist here: https://forum.cloudron.io/post/73350