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How will you remain free when your user base increases to , let's use a silly term, "web scale"?
Currently I didn't had time to implement subscription before lauching.
At least, as code is free (as in freedom) and open source, users with the knowledge will be able to self host.
I wonder whether this is how it was when RMS had the userland and all he needed was someone with a Kernel.
Joking aside, as you can read in the blog post I'm really eager that people join the project and contribute.
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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.
Ignoring that, this stuff all looks fantastic.
Wouldn't "G Suite" be more descriptive than "Google"? Putting it in quotes kind of makes you think you're not referring to the search engine, but still... However that may be I love the mission, awesome work!
Productivity is the current foundation, but you can think having an open source Bloom tractor in some years.
I've dared the Google comparison, because I see Google as an innovative tech giant who have an app for all our needs.
We have the same goal. But open source.
Probably has nothing to do with anything, but I find it funny that a website trying not to be Google is using Google's Material Design. Ignoring that, this stuff all looks fantastic.
I call it outsourcing ;)
Joking aside, it's because my friend who help me for the graphic design don't have so much time, and me the developer, don't have much graphic design skills.
Material design is one of the only design system freely available on the internet, with very good documentation, and very good libraries in all languages.
Even the TL;DR didn't explain what I was looking at. Please fix before you've burned your one chance at a first impression.
can you give me more details? Maybe 3 points about how to solve the issue you are raising ?
Bonus points if you can describe the benefits of your offerings without making me read a manifesto.
Best of luck!
EDITED: I just read your comment and realized you plan to charge users for the services. I noticed Disroot's free services experience down time quite often, but it's free. You're probably going to need an army of support staff since the expectation will likely be quite high once people have to make payments.