I built an offline capable journaling platform mostly as something for myself but I'd like to release it so others can use it too. It's built with React/Firebase so I could get all the offline capabilities really easily (here's the repo: https://github.com/gillkyle/sol-journal). I'm trying to decide the best way to release it and am thinking about these 3 options:
I'm leaning towards the 3rd and that's what my README currently states, but that's obviously the most work and I'm getting to the point where I just want to wrap things up.
I think there are pros and cons to each, if I let people use my version I'd have more users to support and maybe foot the bill of, but I'd like a greater audience to be able to use the app without having to pull my code and deploy it to Firebase.
Any suggestions?
Liked the app though I have a few questions you could think about.
Why did you built it? What itch is it solving? Noticed orhers having the same itch? How is it differwnt from existing(?) solutions? Why Do you want to give it away for free?
Why that?
And I add option no 4. Provide a hosted version for $ and make it open source anyways as a option to self-host it.