Paid apps possible?

#1

Hello,
it is possible to create paid apps in nextcloud?

#2

@BernhardPosselt @jospoortvliet

I haven’t seen any paid apps so far. Do you want to build a business around certain apps or do you just seek some sort of financial appreciation of your contributions? For the latter one, some users might be willing to give a financial contribution to obtain an interesting feature.

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#3

See https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#DoesTheGPLAllowMoney

The question really is if you want to from a business model perspective. It’s probably easier to create a free app and sell mobile integration on the relevant store (e.g. Android/iOS clients) or sell some sort of support for companies like collabora does in the form of readily available docker images or hosting.

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#4

Btw, you could also test the waters by creating a kick starter campaign to see if anyone at all is willing to pay for your idea plus you get the benefit of actually selling something before you begin.

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#5

Hey,
thanks for your feedback.
@tflidd yeah, i want to get some sort of financial appreciation.
I already got the idea with apps and other software @BernhardPosselt
I think this is the right way :slight_smile:

#6

from my experience, a donation button in github is at least not working. no feedback at all for me yet :frowning:

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#7

Bountysource at least does work a fair bit, you can see activity here: https://www.bountysource.com/teams/nextcloud

If your app is in github.com/nextcloud/ it is easy to add it to our bountysource and if you ping me with issues you’d like to promote I can direct some of the money we get from people who ‘just’ give it to us to those.