Upgrades and a long future for assembla.com hosting
Posted by andy@assembla.com Mon, 16 Oct 2006 20:23:00 GMT
A questioner over at DZone asks “how do you guys make money at this? ... just want to know if you guys will be around awhile…”
The free version will always be available, and we will continue to invest in it. However, we will soon launch extensions that will provide the tools that corporate projects need to recruit and manage distributed developers, including a developer directory, time tracking, billing, and payment services.
So, we will need to support and expand our free online services in order to market the commercial package, and in order to attract good developers and give them experience with this tool set.
We make a profit doing full-service development (we deliver at amazing speed), and we use assembla.com for all of our own projects. We have dozens of developers using these tools on high-speed development projects, so that gives us another strong incentive to maintain reliability.
You have probably notices a series of upgrades to the site recently. I will send out an email with full release notes once the upgrades are complete. However, here are some highlights:
- New front-end design. The Space styles will be upgraded later this month.
- Trac 10.1, upgraded from 9.4
- Team members find it easier to follow the action. We upgraded the alert system, which notifies users by email about new flows, wiki page edits, etc., and shows them on the “New” tab, which is like the Basecamp project page. We provide a single-click setup for sending Trac notifications to flows, where team members can manage them as alerts. Email alerts can be set from the “New” page sidebar.
- Checkbox on the project create sets up a development space with Trac, Subversion, notifications.
- Users can now customize the appearance of a space by entering new style tags on the admin page. Coming soon – a pulldown style library.
- Chat. Cool. Also, you can set any tab as the landing page for your space, so that users can drop right into Chat if that is where the action is.
- Many other fixes and smaller improvements.
I love the site and the excellent work that you have done. However, I am a little hesitant to put any IP on the site. Reason being that there is no clear policy listed about the ownership of the source code and documents etc. being posted. For example, you can clearly say something like: We do not claim any ownership in any of the content, including any text, source code, data etc. that you submit to your space.
Or you can put another clearly worded policy to that regard.
Thanks,
KC
KC
I love the site and the excellent work that you have done. However, I am a little hesitant to put any IP on the site. Reason being that there is no clear policy listed about the ownership of the source code and documents etc. being posted. For example, you can clearly say something like: We do not claim any ownership in any of the content, including any text, source code, data etc. that you submit to your space.
Or you can put another clearly worded policy to that regard.
Thanks,
KC
KC