Hey, big fan of what you're doing here!

Is anyone interested in sponsored App creation?

As a business, we can budget for this as a reasonable expense and happy to contribute to both the creator and the community with helping fund these things.

@JOduMonT I think the world has change now there's more value in data than people released but capitalism knows and is both; competing to acquire, and exploiting, in ways beyond most people's imaginations - until they find election campaigning shenanigans but don't know what to do about it.

So necessary to trust in services; yes.

Trust them with your valuable and private data?

When Google is reading your shopping email confirmations and Facebook is reading everything with a "Like" script, I think it's a responsibility to have parts of your data world not visible to the marketing world.

Privacy, encryption and permissions should be as essential in schooling for the Technology Revolution as literacy was for The Renaissance.

So - data privacy politics for 6.1 anyone?

@girish I'll log a ticket with them and keep you posted. This forum is a sys admin treasure trove of useful experience, so it's the least I can do!

I'm sure we all search for "{app name} alternatives" plenty.

I'm also sure we all benefit from Cloudron having more subscribers and growing the team and community.

Therefore, may I suggest a thread for links to places people are finding Cloudron or similar and using all the goodwill, and many people here, to help with some good old-fashioned organic marketing and pr for the cause.

I've added a review and rating here (surferking):

https://alternativeto.net/software/cloudron/about/

Post any other links and I'm happy to do the same, I'm sure we almost all are. Always genuine reviews - but you don't always get if you don't ask

It's a no - maybe - the shortness of the answer doesn't convince me completely but not an immediate need and with the stories of pretty painless migration I'll post again if I try them again on the subject.

( and plugging Cloudron in all related conversations now )

I'm a fan of open source and certainly encourage it with my team - but it comes with overhead and responsibilities beyond working on the actual product, so it's not something to take on lightly or without expectation for the time-costs in managing that.

On the flip-side open-source is infinite almost free referral marketing.

From a business point of view, I would think that hosts themselves should be the primary target for sponsorship since the more that can offer Cloudron, the broader their potential customer-base and those customers subscription to their resources.

If Cloudron.io were able to Terraform the Cloudron instances to popular hosts and then the cloudron.io site was the only way to manage multiple hosts with a subscription, I could see value in that because the subscription costs is still less than the time-costs being saved.

I'm fine with hybrid models, we can hire developers to fix issues if they have a higher priority for us than you guys but also it is important to me that the platform commitments we make have a sustainable business model to remain motivated and evolving as needs arise.

Your work, your choice, either way big kudos for what you've already done and thanks for saving me a ton of time and money already!

Be handy to see who hasn't accepted their invite email yet (with a resend invite button) and who's not logged in for a while.

Bonus points for a login log to review user engagement with the platform.

Once upon a time there was an awesome app called "Rollbase" - which was unlimited and a pleasure to use for rapid development of relation database apps. Then Progress.com bought them and the whole thing became too commercial and unlikeable.

Directus reminds me of what Rollbase was and could have been and I have been hunting high and low since for something like it.

Then when finding Directus I saw developers that just got this need. It's similar to Strapi.io in some ways - but the way that it can work with any existing DB and any DB created with it can be used in any other way is what truly appeals for openness and non-proprietary data-structure locking that is seemingly quite rare in a sector that usually pursues SaaS and vendor-locking through proprietary data structuring that would otherwise be expensive to move.

I see Directus as fast for modelling a relational database, as Cloudron is for modelling app infrastructure so certainly a kinship for the kind of things this community appreciates I'm sure. It was a random find for me from a Reddit comment so I don't think so well known but Cloudron has also introduced me to many other apps I might never have found otherwise, so the curation Cloudron and the community is gathering into the suite is certainly a valuable part of Cloudron's offering as a brand for these standards and open self-hosted and managed objectives.

https://sercurius.net

Although trying to get perfect scores can drive you bonkers, maybe useful for any quick wins.

Can I add to this; a column for "Invitation Expiry" with the date time value?

I'm getting users getting the invite expired message which creates extra work on boarding. If I'd see the expiry date time I could have messages them the same info.

Bonus points for prominantly adding the invite expiry date time into their email so they also know through that why their sign-up might not work.

Nice!

If you package this and one of n8n, Stackstorm, DataFire or Beehive then we can write the ETL for piping the data from Kresus to Invoice Ninja, Firefly III, Odoo, ERPNext etc. I love a good dataflow automation challenge!

@doodlemania2 I think the way to do it would be take an default Directus instance. Export SQL from another App and Import to the Directus DB as I don't think other Cloudron DBs are available outside of their container?

Then as you navigate, it recognises and work with whatever tables there are in the DB. The Directus User, Permissions, Audit Trail tables remain separate.

Personally, I think it would be interesting to take the SQL from another interesting FOSS App that has a dated interface, like GNU Cash or Front Accounting to give it a modern framework.

This looks very impressive — be great to see it on Cloudron!

"Opensource customer support desk. An alternative to Intercom, Drift, Freshchat etc."

• https://www.chatwoot.com/docs/deployment/architecture

Development looks active:

• https://github.com/chatwoot

@sojan_official any plans to integrate Chatbots similar to this? Anything we can help with?

• https://acquire.io/chatbot/
• https://docs.acquire.io/set-up-a-support-bot

• https://suitecrm.com/sugarcrm-loses-and-open-source-wins/

@girish Fair enough. Last time I tested it, it was SugarCRM and it was pretty flexible because the admin made almost everything customisable — but I haven't tested since, so couldn't say if it's "the best" FOSS CRM. I think it will work well enough for most though, and does have that long history so a few other apps do offer integration with it.

Although, every popular app you have is another community of users that are self-hosting that app that will then find the advantages of Cloudron consolidation and standardisation of dev-ops & sys admin.

Any more thoughts on this?

I'm looking at the Mautic integrations and this is the only reasonable FOSS options I can see (SugarCRM integrations should work as that's what it used to be).

Or any other CRM recommendations welcome. Maybe Odoo or ERPNext would cover this need?

EspoCRM seems to have a big leap in costs for some of the paid features, which might be a bit much for some users.

@d19dotca I'd give different Apps their own post so they can have their own votes or not.

I think it's important to have all the Apps listed and let the votes speak for the priorities, even if something isn't added to the store, it will still have it's own thread to track updates and interest. HTHs.

Notable mention for an option already available in Nextcloud:

• https://apps.nextcloud.com/apps/cospend

Hallelujah! Fixed in the latest version:

• https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge
• https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge/archive/master.zip

Here's what the results in Thunderbird look like for this interesting dude:

• https://twitter.com/dvassallo

The whole point of this is to reduce all social media following to being RSS feeds. Zero distraction, just what you need to follow and nothing else.

Workaround for the same issue with Instagram usernames too for interest:

• https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge/issues/1617#issuecomment-646679996

Basically, rss-bridge works on Cloudron - although not every bridge always works completely as there's a cat & mouse game with some sites changing things.

Worth packaging as an App IMHO, and probably an easy enough one for anyone more experienced that I at that since there's no DB to think about. Definitely pull the code from the latest master stream on GitHub.

Lastly, if you have any issues, delete the contents of /cache because it's very cache-happy and that would need emptying to truly re-test any changes. Mostly should be set & forget though.

And this is the beach I was surfing in my profile pic

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7pBFq1_9M0