[lostmsu]

They'd be so much more successful, if "Install" button did not have this:

  wget https://cloudron.io/cloudron-setup
  chmod +x ./cloudron-setup
  ./cloudron-setup --provider [digitalocean,ec2,generic,ovh,...]

[gramakri]

There's a cloudron 1-click image on Digital Ocean

[lostmsu]

Which, as a regular user, I don't understand when I see it.

Hell, I am a dev, and I still did not know that will let me create one quickly.

[gramakri]

Agreed. Do you have any suggestions to improve the initial onboarding?

[lostmsu]

Ideally:

- user picks a cloud (or have a "Advanced" option on the next step instead)

- you show them OpenID/OAuth form for their cloud provider

- guide them through the creation of an account if necessary

- you get the token, that permits your server to create cloud resources on behalf of the user

- you go ahead and create their services for them

- potentially store the token to be able to update the apps automatically

I thought about that, when I was considering to make a similar service (also similar to sandstorm.io). Glad to see somebody doing something in that area (I guess without the permissions model yet).

Problem is: most clouds don't let you easily create an account, so "guide them through the creation of an account" might be impossible without leaving the browser.

[unixhero]

Ahoy gramakri.

I have been a Cloudron user for a bit of time. Recently I have launched a company and we're now a paying and very happy customer of Cloudron's business subscription.

It seems that the "next app suggestion" process have stalled. To me as an outsider of your internal process, I cannot see what applications are being preferred over others. There are tons of very good suggestions which are not receiving traction it seems, from the app suggestion-forum.

A few examples which Cloudron needs, and would benefit from having attracting more users:

- A Wireguard VPN frontend application

- Jupyter Notebooks Environment

- Odoo ERP Community edition

- Erpnext

[3fe9a03ccd14ca5]

Is that any less secure than “sudo dpkg -i foo.deb”?

[lostmsu]

It is certainly less secure, than just calling the API of those cloud providers directly from the site backend.