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Show HN: Bloom – A free and open source 'Google'

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Re: Show HN: Bloom – A free and open source 'Google'

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Post by z0mbie42 »

celdon25 wrote: post #8

Do you have a comprehensive and viable plan to pay for costs? If it involves getting enough donations, does your plan include a viable way to optimize donations? Simply including a donation link, bitcoin addresses, etc, is NOT a comprehensive plan for that. I see only 2 patrons, zero ETH donations, zero BTC donations, despite what appears to be a considerable amount of work put into this. Any plans to partner with so…

Hi, Actually my plan didn't even rely on donation to sustain the project and reach a global scale. you can learn more about the master plan here: https://www.kerkour.fr/blog/bloom-a-free-and-open-source-goo...

1. Build free software and charge for hosting, security of hosted data and enterprise support

2. With this money reduce prices, free the data and the access to scientific knowledge

3. With this money and this community create the open infrastructure to run these software and host this open data

Donation are just a plus, and because I didn't had time to implement payments before launching :) (it's the first day I talk publicly about the project, so I think it's understandable that donation metrics are not so great).

Regarding how much work have been done until today, it's been 6 months I eat pastes :)

Re: Show HN: Bloom – A free and open source 'Google'

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Post by welder »

z0mbie42 wrote: post #20
alpb wrote: post #14

Worth reading: http://blog.nullspace.io/building-search-engines.html

Hi, currently we absolutely do not plan to create a search engine: it requires too much resources for self hosting, I think we currently have great option for all the spectrum (From Google search to DuckDuckGo), and because an open source search engine will be tricked by all kind of nasty SEO Experts and it will be very hard to promote actually good Content. I dared the Google comparison thinking about it's productiv…

> think having a Bloom open source tractor in some years

You're building open source products in all markets with no limitations? Assuming you plan to harness the open source community to help out? Serious question: How is this different from GitHub? I can go to https://github.com/search and find alternatives to all your products already built somewhere and open source.

Re: Show HN: Bloom – A free and open source 'Google'

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Post by z0mbie42 »

Fej wrote: post #7
z0mbie42 wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hi, Thank you very much for these encouraging words! (1) You are totally right, I plan to use this wording only to target the 'geeks' (those who may be early adopters, contributors), those who see Google more like a very innovative tech giant rather than just a search engine (2) As written at the bottom of the article (yes I acknowledge it's very very long) the master plan is as follow: 1. Build free software and cha…

Regarding (2), how are you funding the initial phase of the project? After all, you're offering 30 GB of storage - twice Google.

Storage is very cheap.

I did not expect to reach Google's scale during the next month so currently we are bootstrapped and rely on some AWS credits :)

Re: Show HN: Bloom – A free and open source 'Google'

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Post by z0mbie42 »

welder wrote: post #24
z0mbie42 wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hi, currently we absolutely do not plan to create a search engine: it requires too much resources for self hosting, I think we currently have great option for all the spectrum (From Google search to DuckDuckGo), and because an open source search engine will be tricked by all kind of nasty SEO Experts and it will be very hard to promote actually good Content. I dared the Google comparison thinking about it's productiv…

> think having a Bloom open source tractor in some years You're building open source products in all markets with no limitations? Assuming you plan to harness the open source community to help out? Serious question: How is this different from GitHub? I can go to https://github.com/search and find alternatives to all your products already built somewhere and open source.

hi,

Our secret sauce is:

Bloom conciliate the best of the Startuplaland religion: radical execution rather than bureaucracy, scalability, flawless user experience, strong product culture, iterative process, and open source: a mode of development that has proven its superiority, open governance, an unmatched sustainability and a perfect symbiosis between the interests of developers and those of users.

You can also learn more about how we plan to make money: https://www.kerkour.fr/blog/bloom-a-free-and-open-source-goo...

In short: yes there is already a lot of open source project, but I found that those open source project lack the user experience required to reach a non 'geek market'.

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