How I earn a living selling my open-source web-based invoicing application
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Re: How I earn a living selling my open-source web-based invoicing application
#2[revision] In the comments section, following the article, she notes the extensions are open source, distributed when purchased. The license used for these extensions is not specified.
Thank you for pronoun correction.
Re: How I earn a living selling my open-source web-based invoicing application
#3[revision] In the comments section, following the article, she notes the extensions are open source, distributed when purchased. The license used for these extensions is not specified. Thank you for pronoun correction.
*she
Re: How I earn a living selling my open-source web-based invoicing application
#4[revision] In the comments section, following the article, she notes the extensions are open source, distributed when purchased. The license used for these extensions is not specified. Thank you for pronoun correction.
*she as someone who read the full article would notice.
Re: How I earn a living selling my open-source web-based invoicing application
#5[revision] In the comments section, following the article, she notes the extensions are open source, distributed when purchased. The license used for these extensions is not specified. Thank you for pronoun correction.
> It made me the the confident woman I am today ...
> nemiah posted to Indie Women on March 5, 2021
Re: How I earn a living selling my open-source web-based invoicing application
#6In 2021 I recently launched my newest product: It's called open3ABox and it's a raspberry pi with open3A pre-installed which I deliver to my customers who have not the technical skills for their own server but don't want a cloud version either. It's fully remote managed and monitored by me
This would be an interesting model for quite a few services. It reminds me of Ubiquity's cloud key. I wish some government grant contractors would try it.
Re: How I earn a living selling my open-source web-based invoicing application
#7Please correct me if I'm wrong but this is not how I understand the meaning of "open source software".
It sounds rather like customers get source access. Do they have the right to sell the source code or re-release it in any way by following an open source license? ( https://opensource.org/licenses )
P.S. I'm not criticizing your business model or anyone elses.
Re: How I earn a living selling my open-source web-based invoicing application
#8The demo site is in German; a language selector is not obviously findable.
It’s also excruciatingly slow to load! “Let the software speak for itself” - well, it did - if I were evaluating invoicing software I’d go look elsewhere mainly based on this very poor first impression. Could certainly use some optimization / speed up.
Re: How I earn a living selling my open-source web-based invoicing application
#9"I have a free version of open3A which is as useful as possible without any limits but of course it is missing advanced functionality. This version gets full support by me via phone and email."
I think that providing support for free version is somewhat unique, however it does make sense - the longer people use her software the more likely they purchase add-on or subscription.
Re: How I earn a living selling my open-source web-based invoicing application
#10The demo site is in German; a language selector is not obviously findable. It’s also excruciatingly slow to load! “Let the software speak for itself” - well, it did - if I were evaluating invoicing software I’d go look elsewhere mainly based on this very poor first impression. Could certainly use some optimization / speed up.
> The demo site is in German
The target market is probably Germany. The post mentions amount of money in euros, but never other currencies used in English-speaking countries. It make sense to not internationalize the website if the product doesn’t fit the international market (I bet invoices have different legal requirements everywhere).