How to run a business on open source apps

About

Johannes Zellner, Founder at Cloudron

Solving self-hosting

Use-cases

  • Website and Analytics
  • Customer Communication
  • Information Management
  • File Sharing
  • Accounting and Office
  • Development Tools

Website and Analytics

Surfer

Static Content with CI Pipelines

Matomo

Website Analytics

Ghost

Blog

Customer Communication

Rocket.Chat

Channels and Live-Chat

NodeBB

Community Forum

Freescout

Support Tickets

Information Management

CodiMD

Wiki

Wekan

Project Management

EspoCRM

Customer Relations

File Sharing

Nextcloud

Sync and Share

Accounting and Office

InvoiceNinja

Custom Invoices

ONLYOFFICE

Spreadsheets and Documents

Development Tools

GitLab

Collaboration on Code

Weblate

Translation and localization

How to run all those apps

Cloudron

Containerized Apps

Professional Support

YunoHost

Not containerized

Community Support

Roll-Your-Own

Docker-compose for containerization

Deep knowledge required

Conclusion

  • Varying degree of quality
  • No single app fits one use-case always
  • Simplified user-management
  • OpenSource != Free of Cost

Thanks

johannes@cloudron.io

cloudron.io