I built Garage as a side-project and have finally realised it into production. I’m just a dude working full-time, renting in Caulfield and out of pocket for it. But I’d rather pay to host Garage than have Zuck sell me. Your support means a lot!
Mods: I realise rule 5 says no ads. If this breaks it, I’ll remove. I’m not really selling anything, just trying to give people a second option to Facebook.
Hell yeah! I miss the old Craigslist it shit now and usable. But an open source market place like this one would be damn sweet!
With something like this… maybe a model where the code is open source, but also, somehow, a listing costs a small amount, to help cover server costs, would make sense?
A ‘membership’ regular payment model probably would not work… for anyone other than ‘supersellers’…
Or, maybe, there could be a way to… federate/distribute the server processing itself.
Allow vokunteers to run a process that basicslly serves as a distibuted host.
… hrm…