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Comment by lucasyvas

3 years ago

I expected to hate this and walked away thinking it was a pretty ok idea. Good job!

The idea of curating alternate services together and offering it as a product feels novel - does anyone else do this?

I'd love to see hosting offered for curated open source services that are interoperable. Sort of like all those WordPress hosts of yore (and today!).

Edit: omg.lol, is it AOL?? :D

Edit 2: The price is even the same! $19.95 vs $20

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lgeorget  3 years ago

> The idea of curating alternate services together and offering it as a product feels novel - does anyone else do this?

It's a different but related concept: Framasoft in France (https://framasoft.org/fr/). It's a non-profit that provides open-source alternatives to common cloud services. They also teach people how to install and configure these tools on their own server instead of relying on providers reselling their data.

  • codetrotter  3 years ago

    > provides open-source alternatives to common cloud services

    This includes, among other things, PeerTube.

    PeerTube is a federated alternative to YouTube.

    https://joinpeertube.org/

    I love PeerTube. Been running an instance of it of my own for a few weeks.

    I currently have only two videos on it so far.

    The subject of the videos on my instance are computing and music.

    My instance does not allow others to sign up, but I would like to invite other creators to host videos about computing and music on my instance. I tried to reach out to one person that was currently using YouTube and who was making videos about computing to ask them if they wanted to host their videos on my PeerTube instance instead. Didn’t hear back from that person yet.

    I would like for about ten to one hundred people who have a history of creating videos about computing or music to join my instance. The goal being that we would be enough people on the instance so that every week there is 1 to 2 new videos posted, while still being few enough people so that we are not flooded with many videos, and while also maintaining a strict focus on videos whose topics are restricted to one or more of the following three:

    - computing (by this I mean programming, software engineering, computer science and such)

    - music (includes music videos for music created by the person, as well as videos about music theory and videos about music production)

    - electronics (meaning things like microcontrollers, soldering, PCB design, etc)

    Essentially, to create a small and focused community.

    Still not sure how to actually get other people to join though. For now my strategy will be to continue making videos of my own, and occasionally reaching out to others to ask them personally if they want to join the instance when I see someone that makes content of a similar nature as the kind that I host on my instance.

  • mananaysiempre  3 years ago

    They also used to host quite a lot of stuff before they decided it went both beyond their means and contrary to their goals.

soulofmischief  3 years ago

Two common types of services are bundling and unbundling. Either compiling multiple existing products or services into one, or offering one focused part of some overbundled service. It's the circle of life.

mrmattyboy  3 years ago

> I expected to hate this and walked away thinking it was a pretty ok idea. Good job!

Same here.. Though the services aren't bad, but the decent API made me feel like there's really some love put in.

The main thing that put me off is the two acronyms that I barely hear anymore.. haven't seen lol in a long time and omg has certainly decreased for me, I'd feel awkward using it. Maybe if they had an additional re-branded version that was less 'hip', I'd be up for it :D

dopidopHN  3 years ago

Yunohost is a framework to do that . It curate open source packages and allow the user to pick and choose

justusthane  3 years ago

> The idea of curating alternate services together and offering it as a product feels novel - does anyone else do this?

I think Mozilla is trying to do this, although not super successfully.

MaysonL  3 years ago

Setapp for Mac and ios apps seems to be doing quite well, providing a plethora of great indie software for a reasonable price.