After a year of struggling, my startup is now open source

The last 12 months have been pretty interesting. My partner and I were making enough off LogicPull to work on it full time. Most of our clients are Legal Agencies in or around Ontario. Due to the sensitive nature of the information collected in LogicPull, it was only possible for these agencies to use LogicPull if, and only if, it was installed on their own servers. This has been an uphill battle from the start. Version control was non existent at these agencies, and any updates and/or bug fixes had to go through a formal code review, which could take up to 3 weeks! We decided to open source our software, and just consult with our existing clients. Its been a great ride!

I had an old account and set the procrast to a trillion seconds to stop me from commenting. (run4yourlives) I made a new account just for this.<p>Are you aware of just how valuable this piece of software is? While I commend you for open sourcing it and giving it to us to use, a part of me feels that you are undercutting yourself.<p>Let me highlight a problem for pretty much every company (that is larger than a few people) in existence: The information needed by administration and accounting teams to register a new client is never properly collected by sales teams, so you have haphazard implementations and processes and all sorts of weird and wonderful ways of making sure the various business specific answers to questions are delivered to the people that need them to be.<p>You&#x27;ve created a solution to that problem. The upside of it is, well, HUGE.<p>I&#x27;ll simply thank you for giving me that solution to run with, and hopefully I&#x27;ll be able to do so within my space. Personally I don&#x27;t think you should have done what you did if you were to look at it selfishly; you didn&#x27;t though and for that you should be commended I think.

Looks pretty cool, good luck. If I have the time next year I might try to use this for the &quot;entry interview&#x2F;mentoring&quot; process at our university :)<p>I used to work at a company that built a FLOSS ERP. You can still build a nice company around offering this if you want to. You can spin the fact that it&#x27;s open source to your advantage and emphasise that they will have full control over their software stack. People still gladly hand you fists full of money if you solve their problems...doesn&#x27;t have to be hosted. And don&#x27;t worry about &quot;but they&#x27;ll just replace us with inhouse folks&quot;. If it works they&#x27;ll usuall just pay you to make sure the system doesn&#x27;t fade away.<p>Also on the <a href="https://logicpull.com/tour" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;logicpull.com&#x2F;tour</a> page: &quot;The Problem. Creating a customized question and answer interview, and using the data to populate a form is very time consuming and costly, and needs to XXX created by a software developer.&quot; XXX= missing a &quot;be&quot;

Don&#x27;t really have a use for this but kudos!<p>When I jumped into my current project, I made a point of going with nginx 1.4+, for the websocket support, which really simplifies the stack. It just feels good to have less moving parts.

I&#x27;m a little unfamiliar with the space (also I&#x27;m not american), but I was conversing with someone about this sometime back on open source governance.<p>Is it similar to this - <a href="https://www.kentlaw.iit.edu/institutes-centers/center-for-access-to-justice-and-technology/a2j-author" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.kentlaw.iit.edu&#x2F;institutes-centers&#x2F;center-for-ac...</a><p><a href="http://www.a2jauthor.org/drupal/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.a2jauthor.org&#x2F;drupal&#x2F;</a>

Thanks for posting this up -- can you clarify the reason for using AGPL as opposed to something a little more friendly to SaaS businesses, like BSD or MIT licenses? I only ask because it seems like from reading the license that any changes to the source code must be provided for download, thereby making it difficult to build a defensible business with this tool (I guess with this tool alone).

Yikes, &quot;First commit&quot; is a beast! Were you using something other than git at first, or did you squash the history up to that point?<p>That is a really nice README, by the way.

ha i had similar project but right now i&#x27;m publish job offer site on github: <a href="https://github.com/dawjan/pracanowo.pl" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;dawjan&#x2F;pracanowo.pl</a><p>Check main CV builder:<p><a href="http://cv.pracanowo.pl/cvprzedstawicielhandlowy.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;cv.pracanowo.pl&#x2F;cvprzedstawicielhandlowy.html</a><p>No by google and new engine i;m on position [serp] 945 So i don&#x27;t see any reasons to still support my project

I like the look of your <a href="http://help.logicpull.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;help.logicpull.com</a> docs.<p>Is it all styled via Bootstrap?<p>It seems way too responsive and clean for it.

Wow this is awesome! So the only issue was being able to upgrade client installs.

This is awesome! Are you guys still working on this? (i.e. the start-up)

Just cloned your repo and launched a competitor. Thanks.

Those docs are pretty well done. Nice work!

Great work! Kudos for the perseverance.