Bushido (YC S11): An App Store For The Web That Can Kickstart Your Side Projects
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Re: Bushido (YC S11): An App Store For The Web That Can Kickstart Your Side Projects
#2Click link to Bushido in TC story -> click "Sign up" -> click "Learn more" -> back at contentless splash page.
I can take Jason Kincaid's word for it and sign up, or Bushido can actually tell me something, anything, about what it is.
Re: Bushido (YC S11): An App Store For The Web That Can Kickstart Your Side Projects
#3Click link to Bushido in TC story -> click "Sign up" -> click "Learn more" -> back at contentless splash page. I can take Jason Kincaid's word for it and sign up, or Bushido can actually tell me something, anything, about what it is.
Hey Ryan, sorry for the contentless splash page. We're building up the platform and documentation right now, and as we get closer, the work on that side gets even more intense. We'll put up a video explaining everything later tonight.
In the meantime, we're launching Bushido as a really simple way to launch Open-source rails apps with one click, a unified log-in system, and premium hosting. We do a revenue share with the developers, so all you do is write the app, put up a link that has the url to your rails' app git repo, which branch to deploy from, and any environmental variables you want the app to launch with (so you can customize it at launch time), and then anyone can instantly launch the app. If they end up converting to premium hosting (based on a few factors like number of allowed user signins and apps), we'll split the revenue with you.
The goal is to help developers be more and more independent working on their projects of passion, and to app users way more choice in the apps they can use.
Let me know if you have any more questions, s@gobushido.com!
Re: Bushido (YC S11): An App Store For The Web That Can Kickstart Your Side Projects
#4Click link to Bushido in TC story -> click "Sign up" -> click "Learn more" -> back at contentless splash page. I can take Jason Kincaid's word for it and sign up, or Bushido can actually tell me something, anything, about what it is.
I came here to say exactly this.
I can take Jason Kincaid's word for it and sign up, or Bushido can actually tell me something, anything, about what it is.
Jason's article does indicate they could be on to something interesting, though.
Re: Bushido (YC S11): An App Store For The Web That Can Kickstart Your Side Projects
#5A good concept, I hope their execution will be excellent and they have some marketing skills, because the latter is what will be hardest in this sector. Everyone can make a single sign-on platform with benefits, but getting those customers - now therein lies the rub.
I hope you guys succeed, because I would love to integrate with such a platform.
Re: Bushido (YC S11): An App Store For The Web That Can Kickstart Your Side Projects
#6I remember when Bushido made the front-page of HN a few months ago (search for details). I was pretty pumped then and am even more so now.
One thing that's been on my mind lately is help desk software. The current leaders are way overpriced IMO ($9 to $49 per month per agent–are you serious?) [1], especially when it's best for everyone at a startup to wear the support hat now and then. Not to mention the fact that some lock in your data.
We once used a home-built ticket system for support (a Rails 2.3.x app that's available at https://github.com/bigfolio/big-help). I'm seriously considering re-writing this app in Rails 3.1 and putting it up on Bushido. The biggest feature request I've seen is the ability to handle incoming emails as tickets, and that's now easy with MailGun or SendGrid.
All that to say I think Bushido could really disrupt some industries (even recent ones) that are over-priced or handcuff customers with arbitrary limits.
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http://uservoice.com/plans http://www.zendesk.com/signup http://www.assistly.com/pricing http://www.freshdesk.com/pricing.html
Re: Bushido (YC S11): An App Store For The Web That Can Kickstart Your Side Projects
#7I remember first reading about Bushido at http://swombat.com/2011/4/12/bushido. After reading the blog post, I gave Bushido a spin, and their service really felt like magic. I got to know this team as part of the YC S11 batch, and they're building an awesome company that's giving back to open source. Lots of good things in their future.
Re: Bushido (YC S11): An App Store For The Web That Can Kickstart Your Side Projects
#8I remember when Bushido made the front-page of HN a few months ago (search for details). I was pretty pumped then and am even more so now. One thing that's been on my mind lately is help desk software. The current leaders are way overpriced IMO ($9 to $49 per month per agent –are you serious?) [1], especially when it's best for everyone at a startup to wear the support hat now and then. Not to mention the fact that s…
Hey Erik, awesome note! We actually have some crazy-awesome api's for handling incoming emails - each app has a default email address provisioned for it, and an app can add/remove email accounts programmatically. And handling incoming email is done through a very cool hook system we're really excited to share soon.
Each app that's deployed has a bunch of resources automatically provisioned for it, so as a developer, you never have to wonder if something's present - the goal is to make the developer omnipotent, so you can do whatever you're thinking of, without thinking about it too much :)
Feel free to shoot me an email at s@gobushido.com, we'd really love to talk to you about the help-desk app (even we're looking for a good one)!
Edit: Forgot to add: the incoming/outgoing email stuff is powered by Mailgun actually - those guys are so awesome. With the wrapper we add though, and because we're very language-focused right now, we can make the api's a joy to use, beyond what even they're able to do currently.
Re: Bushido (YC S11): An App Store For The Web That Can Kickstart Your Side Projects
#9sounds like too much vendor lock in with proprietary solutions for my taste, but can see the benefit for some projects out there.
Re: Bushido (YC S11): An App Store For The Web That Can Kickstart Your Side Projects
#10I thought it sounded intriguing until I realized your entire codebase has to be public. Are there actually any popular SaaS products that are 100% open-source? Releasing open-source components and libraries spun off from your app is one thing, but open-sourcing the whole codebase that constitutes the core of your business? Is that done?