I don't know how I feel about this project. It feels like their product is a middleman, and sort of (maybe unintentionally) reinforces the idea that people "own" ideas...<p>When I think about it, it's probably not actually different from just having an open collective that takes on ideas and builds them for clients for free, but this is a distinctively less personal feel... but 10% is (in my opinion) a pretty hefty amount of revenue to share for just hosting.<p>If I'm understanding correctly, 10% revenue sharing for the simple value proposition of connecting you to people who want to build you app and hosting your app seems like too much.<p>Maybe I'm just not open minded enough for this to seem like a great idea to me yet
Is this service basically for SAAS type projects that could potentially have a future revenue stream? Or is it also intended for regular open source standalone projects? I've got some stuff in the pipeline where I've been trying to find a way to get more exposure, so I can get people testing it giving me an idea of future development priorities. But I don't see any type of revenue stream, unless I sell support for the projects.
Somehow get the assembly newsletter once in a while and I have to say it's a great newsletter. Not because I am so interested in what assembly does but rather because the subject line is so compelling to click on. Almost like it's not a newsletter but a real email. I don't know whether it is the lowcaps which does the trick or the wording but it's nailing it.
This is perfect timing for me. I have a project which is online and has users, yet is languishing because I just don't have time. (<a href="http://think200.com" rel="nofollow">http://think200.com</a> - Test-driven app monitoring.)<p>I've been considering open-sourcing it and just hoping for the best. So this is a good alternative to investigate first.
Apologies for a shameless plug.<p>Should you ever find your side project un-savable - for a variety of reasons (commitment issue, personal, emotional, what-not), then you can always take your project to SideProjectors and let others take over. :)<p><a href="http://sideprojectors.com" rel="nofollow">http://sideprojectors.com</a>
This project is very close to an idea I had in 2009 I really hope it takes off:<p><a href="http://justinvincent.com/page/tag/venture-matrix" rel="nofollow">http://justinvincent.com/page/tag/venture-matrix</a>