Why are you using such a bloated website builder for a quite simple task of listing apps?
I love the design and the site loads very fast for me
What would you suggest instead as a better alternative for this type of project
Show HN: Non SaaS – Directory of Non SaaS Apps
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#42Why are you using such a bloated website builder for a quite simple task of listing apps?
Because he's probably associated with it in some way.
9 of the sites listed are using the same thing and link to each other in the footer as "Mars Verse".
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#43We as Software developers need to be honest with ourselves and really think about pricing. The product should be priced as per the effort and time it took to develop. If application needs maintenance then charge it separately. But the customer should not have to pay for your SaaS because you don't want to work 9 to 5.
Lesson one is to never go public. As soon as you have shareholders, they're going to demand growth, and there's only so much you can do to sustain that growth before you have to raise prices.
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#44Great marketing strategy since the creator of this website is also the creator of several of these "non-SaaS".
I mean if they're really into non-saas, it's just natural that there is this overlap in interest. Developing them and collecting information on them.
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#45The concept is good but the site design is just awful. The page is non responsive. Can't search and the scroll is very slow. Not sure why a such a simple page is designed to take up so much CPU.
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#46Do any self hosting sites include an "effort index"? For example, if its a binary which needs Sqlite/MySql and Nginx, it gets a perfect score; if it needs 5 docker containers...
Ahh the lost art of writing installable deployable software.
Another thing I don’t like about SaaS is that most of it is a yarn ball held together by snot and twist ties that can run on only one cloud… or only one cloud account with hard coded details about that account. As such it’s encouraged a generation of developers to write this slop.
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#48Do any self hosting sites include an "effort index"? For example, if its a binary which needs Sqlite/MySql and Nginx, it gets a perfect score; if it needs 5 docker containers...
Ahh the lost art of writing installable deployable software. Another thing I don’t like about SaaS is that most of it is a yarn ball held together by snot and twist ties that can run on only one cloud… or only one cloud account with hard coded details about that account. As such it’s encouraged a generation of developers to write this slop.
> Ahh the lost art of writing installable deployable software.
Yeah, because it's so easy to create a deployable package for a variety of distros. Especially if you have any system-level dependencies. Even more so for shitty unreliable ecosystems such as Perl, Python and Node.js.
There is a reason why Docker and friends took over deployment artifacts. Having a single reproducible (if properly done) immutable all-dependencies included artifact that will run everywhere with a container runtime is just magic. Gone are the days of "You need libcgit v2 to use my package... oh Ubuntu calls this libcgit2, but wait, I'm on Ubuntu 16.04 which only has libcgit51".
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#49First entry I see: Pabbly Connect [0], a subscription web service that normally runs $20 a month and currently has a lifetime subscription offer advertised. Everything is hosted in the cloud, you sign in to access the product, they're SOC2 compliant, etc. This website has a very different definition of SaaS than I do, and it sounds like it rhymes with "subscription". A few more examples to make sure it wasn't a one-o…
Yes, I wasn't sure how to categorize these. This is V1 of the site and I will make adjustments based on feedback. There are no Non SaaS alternatives to those products, so I included them even though they are technically SaaS with a lifetime deal.
If I were you I'd drop them outright. Better to have the directory live up to its name than to have it be more comprehensive but contain apps that are clearly SaaS.
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#50Went through the list, all listed services are SaaS apps. :(
Granted, most of them are self-hosted (not all!), but this list needs to be called norecurringfee.com ….