I understand that being a fork of Snowplow is how you define yourself, but there's actually nothing on the webpage that provides any detail of what the product does, other than "event pipeline" right up the top.
I suggest putting at least some content on the website about what you do so that people can find you when looking for solutions in the industry, rather than having them adopt Snowplow and then splinter off later. I understand that your main focus is snowcatcloud.com which does have info putting some on opensnowcat.io will greatly enhance its discoverability.
Especially as the splinter strategy is going to become increasingly harder as people who care about open source won't adopt Snowplow to begin with, and people who don't care won't leave it.
Every time I see a bait and switch like this, I'm thinking for myself "well, this could have been easily covered by AGPL...if they were actually interested in keeping it Open Source".
Oftentimes the company is worried about not being able to make revenue by providing hosted services, which is fair and I understand it. But please if you do this, don't do a bait and switch like this. Relicense it as AGPL which covers hosted services just the same as GPL would cover binary builds.
Anyways, thank you very much for this. As a former early adopter of snowplow in my infrastructure I really appreciate the fork and its new life!
I genuinely thought software.com was like a lorem ipsum placeholder (particularly in the context of the other two being blank). Went to the site ... it feels even more like a fake company. There is so much here but it all feels like an empty shell?
Yes, I guess I've been so deep I never worked on actually making that clear. I'm working on adding a section about it with specific use cases! Thank you!
I understand that being a fork of Snowplow is how you define yourself, but there's actually nothing on the webpage that provides any detail of what the product does, other than "event pipeline" right up the top.
I suggest putting at least some content on the website about what you do so that people can find you when looking for solutions in the industry, rather than having them adopt Snowplow and then splinter off later. I understand that your main focus is snowcatcloud.com which does have info putting some on opensnowcat.io will greatly enhance its discoverability.
Especially as the splinter strategy is going to become increasingly harder as people who care about open source won't adopt Snowplow to begin with, and people who don't care won't leave it.
Thank you! Agree! A section "What it is" and "What you can use it for" will be helpful to showcase when and why you would use it!.
Every time I see a bait and switch like this, I'm thinking for myself "well, this could have been easily covered by AGPL...if they were actually interested in keeping it Open Source".
Oftentimes the company is worried about not being able to make revenue by providing hosted services, which is fair and I understand it. But please if you do this, don't do a bait and switch like this. Relicense it as AGPL which covers hosted services just the same as GPL would cover binary builds.
Anyways, thank you very much for this. As a former early adopter of snowplow in my infrastructure I really appreciate the fork and its new life!
Interesting post, minor note on the homepage: The first two boxes for "Trusted by" above software.com are shown as empty for me.
Browser is Firefox on Android, tested without adblocker
I genuinely thought software.com was like a lorem ipsum placeholder (particularly in the context of the other two being blank). Went to the site ... it feels even more like a fake company. There is so much here but it all feels like an empty shell?
Hahaha no software.com is a real company, and they do use opensnowcat!
Fixed! Thank you!
thanks will check!
It's not immediately apparent from your website what opensnowcat actually does.
Yes, I guess I've been so deep I never worked on actually making that clear. I'm working on adding a section about it with specific use cases! Thank you!
Github project: https://github.com/opensnowcat
Bookmarked this. Previously used Mautic, but this seems more interesting.
I was just wondering how there seemed to be so few tag libraries.
Opensnowcat works with Snowplow's or Segment SDKs, this is an interesting observation, we could easily expand!
Big fan of what you're doing Joao! Keep up the great work :)
Thank you Taylor!
Love this, will take a look. Good luck on your open source journey.
Thank you!