At Hog Bay Software I've been working on a user-powered prococess for building software. The idea is that users are allowed to take full part in all aspects of the development process. The goal is for everyone involved to have fun bulding useful software. I've also been focusing on a particular style (small simple apps) of software and particular style (open and personal) of running my buisness.
For me this has been a fun combination that creates useful results. I want to see lots of apps built this way and I want to see the process continue to improve, but I'm only one person and my resources are limited. To make this grow I need more more developers invested in the idea, but I don't want to manage employees.
So instead I've created this forum and a proposal...
I want to host your application on the Hog Bay Software site if you build, market, and support it in the Hog Bay Software "style". This user forum is where we (me, you the developer, and any interested users) will discuss all aspects of your applications development and what needs to be done to make it successful and possibly sell it through my site.
Participating in this forum with your appliction idea doesn't create any sort of contract. You can sell the app yourself if you want, and I'm not promising that I will host your application. But hosting your app is certaily my goal, I think if we can create a "cluster" of simple user-powered software made by individuals it will helps us all be more succesful and build better software. If for some reason I don't want to host your app on my site the Hog Bay Software frameworks that you will build your app on are all open source, so you can sell it anywhere else that you like.
This idea is likely to fail a few times before it works, but in 5-10 years I hope to turn the Hog Bay Software site into a place with lots of small simple apps developed in an open and personal style.
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