helpful-web

Sad to see looking at all the innovation that sprung up through them: https://github.com/asm-products Personally I got my first real-world Rails app experience by working on the Helpful App (https://github.com/asm-helpful/helpful-web). And in turn that experience gave me the confidence to land my first paid Ruby on Rails consulting job.

Something that confuse me. Looking at https://github.com/asm-helpful/helpful-web and other repos, look like all the open source activity must be inside assembly. That presume everyone want to be part of it, and that everyone look for financial gains. Is possible to accept contributions in the normal sense, and only have inside assembly the "core team" or only the members that are part of the financial-side of the project?

Just a heads up, Helpful was actually the first Assembly product. (https://github.com/asm-helpful/helpful-web/pulse/monthly) Its a community effort so some people have more time then others in a month and products on Assembly each have their own ebb and flow. It does look like just3ws did alot in October but those are probably mostly merge commits (just3ws is on the Core Team). All the partners still shared in last month's proceeds for their previous contributions though. Disclosure: I work on Assembly

Here's the commit to prove it :) https://github.com/asm-helpful/helpful-web/commit/7376a442a7...

https://github.com/asm-helpful/helpful-web/blob/master/LICEN... ? That looks pretty open source to me. It's not the most permissive license, but neither is the GPL...

Helpful (http://helpful.io). Ruby on Rails helpdesk software trying to make things like ZenDesk & Desk.com suck less. Github: https://github.com/asm-helpful/helpful-web. There is always a list of things to do (https://assemblymade.com/helpful/wips) and a community around to help. We also share the ownership (and profit) of the app between the contributors. Anybody is welcome to be "Helpful" and join in building it. Full disclosure, founder

Helpful (http://helpful.io). Ruby on Rails helpdesk software trying to make things like ZenDesk & Desk.com suck less. Github: https://github.com/asm-helpful/helpful-web. We've been getting guidance from Kevin Hale (a YC partner) on his vision for the perfect support app. We also do something kind of cool where we share the ownership (and profit) of the app between the contributors: https://assemblymade.com/helpful. Anybody is welcome to be "Helpful" and join the great team that we have building it.