Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Show HN: I built a self-hosted Basecamp alternative. Try the demo

duetapp.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

141–150 of 203 posts

Re: Show HN: I built a self-hosted Basecamp alternative. Try the demo

#141

Post by troels »

bluedino wrote: post #116
lopatin wrote: post #106

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Same here. I was selling a PHP+MySQL script and about 20% of my customers couldn't install it despite my verbose instructions. I don't really blame them, I shouldn't have been making non-technical web masters navigate a cPanel account and mess with PHP in the first place. I couldn't possibly provide personal technical support to everyone in need so I granted a refund to anyone who didn't get it working. As a side not…

We have a vendor of some mailing list software that you install your save (basically a tarball of php code). If we have an issue with it, they basically refuse to help unless we give them ssh access to our server. Stupidly we have this mailing list software running on our production web server (the same one our customers use to access our apps), so we can't do that. I mean I trust the guy to not go in an install a ba…

You don't trust him with ssh access to your server, yet you trust him to run arbitrary code there. That doesn't make any sense.

Re: Show HN: I built a self-hosted Basecamp alternative. Try the demo

#142

Post by einai »

23andwalnut wrote: post #140
einai wrote: post #133

Hi, this looks like a nice and affordable product for freelancers like me. Great job! If I purchase this app now, will I get free updates (eg, bug fix) for at least a certain period of time?

You sure do. If you purchase the app you will get all updates for free.

Awesome! Going to buy it now!

Re: Show HN: I built a self-hosted Basecamp alternative. Try the demo

#144

Post by tmzt »

23andwalnut wrote: post #83
thoughtcriminal wrote: post #78

I'm wondering if there are easy to follow, step-by-step instructions on setting it up on my own PC. Can Joe Sixpack set this up without too much grief? I'd like to use this for my own projects, but I'm way out of practice doing this stuff.

It comes with an installation script that's pretty simple to use. You just need your database credentials. I can also install it for you if necessary.

I'm working on a third party installer for installing web applications on cpanel, get in touch at my email on profile.

(This isn't for cpanel addons, it's for installing packaged applications directly to a user's cpanel-based hosting account.)

It would be PHP-based and might work as an installer, user just needs their control panel login username/password from their webhost. (Too bad cpanel doesn't do oauth2). I've already tested with some of the major web hosting providers.

Re: Show HN: I built a self-hosted Basecamp alternative. Try the demo

#145

Post by molsongolden »

When you click send invoice does it send a copy of the invoice to the email on file and give them a link to pay online?

Apologies as I know you are being bombarded with questions but this looks fantastic for my small office situation.

Edit: I just purchased anyways and will experiment later this week. Would you want to host a forum where users can discuss issues?

Re: Show HN: I built a self-hosted Basecamp alternative. Try the demo

#146

Post by tmzt »

23andwalnut wrote: post #70
tempi35 wrote: post #67

Could you please tell more about the development process? What was used: icons, jquery and so on. Great product!

I rolled my own MVC implementations for the client and server. The backend is in php. The client MVC implementation uses Backbone events and the backbone router, but everything else is custom. jQuery of course, Twitter bootstrap, IconJar, some free icons I found on 365psd, glyphicons.

You built the PHP router too?

Re: Show HN: I built a self-hosted Basecamp alternative. Try the demo

#147

Post by tmzt »

jamroom wrote: post #101
23andwalnut wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The only requirements are php 5.3 and mysql (pdo).

Speaking from years of experience with a self hosted PHP application, I'd recommend a "recommend hosters" section in your FAQ. Setup an affiliate program with them - most of your users will be happy to send you the referral to know that you recommend and have a good experience with them. Ones to really watch out for are Godaddy shared hosting (note that updates to .htaccess files can take many hours to actually show…

Do you have more details or a forum link on that Hostgator thing?

Re: Show HN: I built a self-hosted Basecamp alternative. Try the demo

#148

Post by 23andwalnut »

molsongolden wrote: post #145

When you click send invoice does it send a copy of the invoice to the email on file and give them a link to pay online? Apologies as I know you are being bombarded with questions but this looks fantastic for my small office situation. Edit: I just purchased anyways and will experiment later this week. Would you want to host a forum where users can discuss issues?

It sends an email letting them know they have an invoice, the amount of the invoice, and gives them a link to the invoice in the portal. Once I add the ability to generate pdfs, it may also include the pdf as an attachment.

Re: Show HN: I built a self-hosted Basecamp alternative. Try the demo

#149

Post by 23andwalnut »

einai wrote: post #143

One more question from me since I can't seem to log into the demo now. Will I be able to disable certain features (eg, payment through Paypal - I would rather get a check)? Thanks.

Yes, you don't have to enable any of the payment options. You can just set it to 'none' during installation or manually in the config file.

Re: Show HN: I built a self-hosted Basecamp alternative. Try the demo

#150

Post by zerr »

23andwalnut wrote: post #140
einai wrote: post #133

Hi, this looks like a nice and affordable product for freelancers like me. Great job! If I purchase this app now, will I get free updates (eg, bug fix) for at least a certain period of time?

You sure do. If you purchase the app you will get all updates for free.

Why not limit this?

Annually and/or within major version updates, except [security] bugfixes of course.

Post reply on HN