Hey guys, I think it’s time for me to share my project here. I’ve been working on this idea since last year, had a very cold launch in January, and have reached a point of stability where I’m confident the app is ready for the mainstream. Open Market is an aggregator (think of Google Shopping) aiming to help people promote their products, art, or anything they plan to sell. This includes used goods and pretty much anything else. The app creates a personal storefront for every AT Protocol user....
Open Market - Buy, Sell, and Trade Locally
Buy, sell, and trade locally without fees. Open Market is a community-owned marketplace built on the open web.
Open Market - Buy, Sell, and Trade Locally
Buy, sell, and trade locally without fees. Open Market is a community-owned marketplace built on the open web.
Evolving App Store Business Models - David Smith, Independent iOS Developer
I’ve been thinking this past week (as I often do) about the ever-changing landscape of the App Store. This year has seen some of the biggest changes in policy and structure that I can remember. We have new subscription pricing models, search ads, a substantial purge of older apps, new requirements for app names and a variety of little changes to the App Store app itself in iOS 10.
Solving the "marketplace" business model - @ASmartBear
I'm amazed how many startups follow the "marketplace" pattern but don't acknowledge or address the peculiar difficulties of that model. Here's some guidance.
MetaMask: Where your money lives
Buy, trade, earn, and spend, all from one app you control.
The Open Source Distributor Business Model
Dirk Riehle, dirk@riehle.org, Published in Computer vol. 54, no. 12 (December 2021), pp. 99-103. Abstract This article defines and discusses one particular commercial open source business model, ca…
itch.io: "Open marketplaces can work"
For years now, it seems like any discussion of online gaming storefronts eventually comes back to Steam and Valve's inc…
There is NO Open Source Business Model
Preface: It has been brought to my attention by friends and trusted advisors that a valid interpretation of my point below is that open…
Free-to-Use, Unless You Are a Cloud Provider (The New Strategy?)
On the heels of my talk about the current licensing challenges to single-vendor open source firms, I want to discuss the resulting strategy for vendors selling to developers. Single-vendor open sou…
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storefront and products are a natural fit and would change the dynamics of ecomm infra hosting for the better! transaction details would be private, permissioned data (or spec-aligned to start) and transaction events would be cryptogtaphically verifiable from both sides github.com/bluesky-social/proposals/blob…
The AT Proto app that I have been working on over the last ~12 days is nearing a first beta. Introducing @gifthood.community: A neighborly way to give and receive, freely, built on the AT Protocol. We will start in Portland neighborhoods soon. Let's find out if this concept works on the open web.
gifthood.community — coming soon
gifthood.communityThis is a very straight forward atproto-business play btw 1. bring (the feature-complete) UnInbox into the atmosphere: put a PDS on it & accept open-social login 2. promptly charge indie teams like mine flat rates (no seats) of $100/yr and up for managed service. Outcompete missiveapp.com/pricing
Erlend Sogge Heggen
Note to @mk.gg and @cloudflare-dev.bsky.social DevRel folks: There’s a feature-complete team-mail client called UnInbox that’s no longer in business, but the dev is trying to bring the (self-)hosting costs close to zero, which is the sort of thing Cloudflare excels at 👀 github.com/un/inbox
