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Here is my perspective as a developer of ClearFlask (open-source Fider alternative) and I assume others have the same take as well:

• I don't see the right incentives for me to contribute to Cloudron
• I see Cloudron as a for-profit, open-core (at best) organization making money from repackaged open-source projects integrated into Cloudron by volunteer developers.
• I'd prefer to make my own project easier to deploy, rather than helping Cloudron
• At the same time I am not hindering Cloudron, I stated I would help and support anyone wanting to put ClearFlask on Cloudron. I licensed ClearFlask under Apache license and Cloudron is more than welcome to use it, including repackaging and re-selling.

This is an unfortunate situation because:

• I can package ClearFlask for Cloudron much quicker and be able to provide ongoing support much better than any other volunteer

My suggestions:

• Open-source Cloudron
• or, pay developers to help you from the funds you receive

A crazy scheme I just came up with:
Take a percentage of Cloudrons' sales and re-distribute back to either:
a) existing apps on Cloudron based on popualarity
b) or as a bounty for apps not already on Cloudron. For best quality, add preference for the original developers of the project to bid on the bounty and provide support.

@timconsidine that's great, just letting you know I'm still here too so feel free to reach out to me anytime.

Clearflask is containerized via docker and can be configured by config files. All of this is part of a docker compose available in the sources.

Edit: seems like cloudeon doesn't use docker but no worry. The production hosted version is not on docker and the sources have all the setup scripts to install it on a redhat based system. There is a java tomcat backend and a nodejs reverse proxy. Can both be installed on one host

Astuto is not actively maintained and not recommended for production as of now:
https://github.com/riggraz/astuto/issues/67

Alternatives to vote for:
ClearFlask: https://forum.cloudron.io/topic/5915/clearflask-open-source-product-feedback-public-roadmap-platform/13?_=1638630007903
Fider: https://forum.cloudron.io/topic/1446/fider

ClearFlask is another alternative:
https://forum.cloudron.io/topic/5915/clearflask-open-source-product-feedback-public-roadmap-platform/13?_=1638630007903

Founder of ClearFlask here, I can answer all your questions and I would love it if you add ClearFlask to your App library. Let me know how I can help.

@timconsidine
ClearFlask is FOSS, the cloud version is the same codebase as self-hosted version and licensed under AGPLv3.

@loudlemur
Recaptcha does not get loaded if it is not configured. If captchas are still wanted, I can fairly easily support an alternative captcha, please do let me know.

@jdaviescoates
Astuto is no longer maintained, I wouldn't recommend it. https://github.com/riggraz/astuto/issues/67
Fider is a good lightweight alternative for simple feedback and voting with self-hosting as its primary purpose. ClearFlask is more heavy-weight built-for-scale meant for handling large amount of feedback. It has a powerful dashboard to quickly address feedback and turn it into tasks to prioritize your project Roadmap. It can also be self-hosted via Docker.