VIville·Jun 26, 2013Submission
Vix: Website-management software (written in Clojure)
1 points · Open discussionfmw
vix
Clojure2012–2013
fmw / vix
vix
Website-management software (CMS) written in Clojure.
2Distinct people
3Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
92GitHub stars
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Website-management software (CMS) written in Clojure.
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Observed mentions: 2012-06-22 21:11:42 UTC to 2013-06-26 13:48:38 UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| Jun 2012 | 2012-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2012-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Jul 2012 | 2012-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2012-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Aug 2012 | 2012-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2012-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 2012 | 2012-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2012-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 2012 | 2012-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2012-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 2012 | 2012-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2012-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 2012 | 2012-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 2013 | 2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Feb 2013 | 2013-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 2013 | 2013-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 2013 | 2013-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| May 2013 | 2013-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jun 2013 | 2013-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
What Hacker News says
3 sourcesThe consumer market for GNU/Linux desktop application is tough, although there are some niche markets that can be viable. Wikipedia has a list of proprietary GNU/Linux applications that provides several examples[0]. If you want to charge in the consumer market and aren't interested in game development, solving boring, but relatively complicated problems (e.g. tax software) seems like a good bet financially. Open source developers are less likely to sustainably work on boring applications. People that generally prefer free software are also more likely to set aside their principles if you can somehow lessen some kind of significant pain for them (again, like doing taxes).
The business market is much more viable. There all sorts of viable markets, like:
- compatibility glue for either server-side or client-side open source alternatives to t
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he Microsoft stack that solves certain headaches (e.g. arcane file formats, better conversion for scripted Excel sheets),
- GUI (system) management tools (such as CPanel and Plesk for budget webhosting, but for less saturated markets like managing thin-clients or virtual machines that are still a moving target),
- hardware + software (e.g. building things like portable barcode scanners for inventory management, security/surveillance hardware or VoIP boxes using the Raspberry Pi),
- et cetera.
If you target business users open source or dual licensing becomes much more viable too. It isn't economical for most companies to dedicate a lot of resources to IT internally, so they will still pay for e.g. support, training or a managed version of your application. The latter is especially attractive with web applications, of course, because you can sell a managed SaaS version of your application (this is exactly my business model with http://www.vixu.com [1]).
0: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_proprietary_software_fo...
1: Based on an Apache licensed application you can find at https://github.com/fmw/vix).
Here is a shameless plug:
http://www.vixu.com (my startup) is based on open source Clojure/ClojureScript CMS (and soon webshop) software. See https://github.com/fmw/vix for the code (planning some refactoring over the summer before the first official release). Also doing search related stuff in Clojure (see https://github.com/fmw/alida for demo code I wrote for my EuroClojure presentation).
Clojure brought the fun back to software development for me and made me a better developer in general. It is also a very pragmatic choice, with the expressiveness of Lisp and plenty of reusable Java code being available.
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