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Show HN: I just made my profitable online form builder open-sourced
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Re: Show HN: I just made my profitable online form builder open-sourced
#22Your website doesn’t open, it seems it’s flagged in one of the DNS popular blacklists
Works fine for me.
Did you add these blacklists yourself or is it from your ISP?
Re: Show HN: I just made my profitable online form builder open-sourced
#23I really like that you are using nestjs, idk why some devs hate it, IMHO its the best node framework that can be used to build production ready apps, i started using it a month ago at work and it was my first time using it, and it already made so productive
NestJS is nodeJS for Java people. It's like Angular in that sense. So some people will feel like it's over engineered. I mean it's overengineered. Why do I have to register all these things, and why does it keep crashing if I register it like this without any understandable error message. It has a little bit of an OCD relationship with dependency injection. Where the normal import system can handle most of those case…
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Re: Show HN: I just made my profitable online form builder open-sourced
#24I really like that you are using nestjs, idk why some devs hate it, IMHO its the best node framework that can be used to build production ready apps, i started using it a month ago at work and it was my first time using it, and it already made so productive
I recently migrated my API from lambda functions do a dockerized Node API and I evaluated NestJS, though ended up using Fastify. Like others have mentioned, it's great for devs that come from Angular or Java but for me I didn't like that it used decorators all over the place and preferred to have something more "Express like"
Re: Show HN: I just made my profitable online form builder open-sourced
#25What is the reason for “open sourcing” this , when any meaningful implementation is locked away behind services and is closed source. I just think these kind of use cases confuses users. There is no problem in being closed source and proprietary (unless you are using preexisting open source code and open sourcing those parts of your code makes it legally compliant) . In any case it is confusing at best and misleading at the worst.
Re: Show HN: I just made my profitable online form builder open-sourced
#26I really like that you are using nestjs, idk why some devs hate it, IMHO its the best node framework that can be used to build production ready apps, i started using it a month ago at work and it was my first time using it, and it already made so productive
Best makes JavaScript look like Java, it’s needlessly complex and just encourages vast amounts of boilerplate. Awful stuff.
Re: Show HN: I just made my profitable online form builder open-sourced
#27I really like that you are using nestjs, idk why some devs hate it, IMHO its the best node framework that can be used to build production ready apps, i started using it a month ago at work and it was my first time using it, and it already made so productive
Best makes JavaScript look like Java, it’s needlessly complex and just encourages vast amounts of boilerplate. Awful stuff.
This is precisely my experience. Classes are painful to deal with. Decorators are not only unergonomic, they also throw away any type safety. Also Nest shoves class transformer and class validator down your throat, which are also a pian in the ass.
My go-to right now is itty router with zod.
Re: Show HN: I just made my profitable online form builder open-sourced
#28What is the reason for “open sourcing” this , when any meaningful implementation is locked away behind services and is closed source. I just think these kind of use cases confuses users. There is no problem in being closed source and proprietary (unless you are using preexisting open source code and open sourcing those parts of your code makes it legally compliant) . In any case it is confusing at best and misleading…
Free advertising on Haker News. 10 bucks net profit without any grows is also profitable. Getting to the main page of HN was worth open sourcing what had no potential anyway.
This is my reasoning, I'm not the creator of this.
Re: Show HN: I just made my profitable online form builder open-sourced
#29Can anyone confirm if the legal advice here https://docs.heyform.net/license is correct? Seems slightly different to my own interpretation of the spirit of GPL.
Yeah, it looks wrong to me too. It claims to be GPLv3 and the "use cases" explainer looks like it's trying to clarify what GPLv3 means, but the requirements described under the use cases are not part of GPLv3.
The 1st one is fine. The 2nd one says you would need to open source your modifications, but that would only be true if you also distributed your version rather than just using it on the server side. The 3rd adds three conditions. The first and third are again only true if you are redistributing the software. The second is an attribution clause that is not part of GPLv3, and the page to me definitely reads like it's explaining the license but not actually a license itself. GPLv3 does allow adding in similar conditions, but probably not those: I'm not sure requiring a link to the original project is ok.
AGPLv3 would be a much closer match to what the author appears to intend. It allows adding the attribution requirements that the author wants; see https://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.en.html section 7: "You may...supplement the terms...: (b) Requiring preservation of...author attribution..."
(IANAL, and every time I claim anything about licenses I get at least one detail wrong.)
Re: Show HN: I just made my profitable online form builder open-sourced
#30do you consider this a marketing move?
Of course; how else could they have been on the HN frontpage? (I’m not saying this negatively)