Arnor — a marketplace for Django projects

This looks perfect. I am currently developing a self-contained open-source Django app I aim to allow people to deploy on as many PaaS as possible, but I was bummed out that I still had to include a minor guide to the necessary git and terminal commands.<p>One-click deployment for Django has been a long time coming from bushi.do (<a href="http://www.gobushido.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.gobushido.com/</a>), so it's great that you are pioneering the Django effort.<p>Now I just hope that the prices will be low and the tiers intelligible to people with little to no proficiency in web programming, when even I struggle to get the concept of dynos.<p><i>PaaS -&#62; One-click deploymen</i>t is without exaggerating the thing I am most excited about from a technological perspective because of the implication for people unfamiliar with the requisite technology.

I'm a little confused. As opposed to creating a service with user registration, and maintaining the uptime of this service, instead, I create a Django project that someone can buy? And all maintenance on that instance is handled by gondor.io and that user? If this is correct, then who is my target audience as a developer selling on Arnor? Tech savvy people, only other Django devs, or the general masses that would want to use my code as a service? If it's general masses, how have you made the barrier to entry very low? I don't want to explain what an "instance of my code" is to my mother, but I would love to sell her a django project having to do with cute cat photos :)

I'm pretty dense, but who is creating what for whom here? I create a Django app on Arnor then sell it to someone who wants to maintain it? A client logs on to Arnor and requests an app and some developer builds it for them?

Can someone (or you guys) take this further and create a marketplace for developers to sell, rev-share, or license fully developed applications to marketers, individuals or companies?

I don't usually submit "joke" comments to HN, so I'll resist the urge, even though there is ample opportunity atm.<p>Great name. In fact, probably the best name.<p>The idea sounds interesting. I wonder what the benefits might be of having a marketplace on top of a PaaS. I wonder if there are any actual benefits of that.

Tell me if I am understanding this:<p>I can create an application, like a website for realtors (as a simple example), and then customers (like realtors) can pay me and get a hosted instance of my web app. Right?<p>If so, cool!

Hm, we're using gondor.io for an open source project, not sure what is implied by "... We've built the hosting and deployment infrastructure known as Gondor. Now all our efforts are coming together as Arnor."<p>I presume Gondor.io will continue to exist as it does now?