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Show HN: Taskfort – A hostable kanban solution at www.taskfort.com
7 points by timnuwin 4262 days ago
Taskfort is open for beta right now..

A couple of key points, once you purchase the license you will have full access to the source-code, it also supports real-time editing of the same kanban board courtesy of socket.io.

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I'm curious about how you're doing per user pricing. If the source is open, how are you enforcing limits on the number of users? Is a portion of the code base closed source? Or are you just using the honor system? I'm asking because I sell hostable software too and I've been thinking about per user pricing for a while, but I haven't made the switch yet.
I just released the beta version of the site so I don't have any data-points yet. But I'm hopefully going to bank on enterprises mostly purchasing the software, and those are going to be entities that I know will most likely respect the per-user contracts. The entire source-code will be available to the customer once they purchase the license. I've had to make a lot of hacks when tailoring 3rd party software with pieces of their code closed-source, so I hope to alleviate that pain for other developers.

What type of software do you sell, and how are you currently charging clients?

Would love to see some screenshots/demo video. Great to see you're opening up the source for customisation. Does this mean it will be open-source, or just open to internal customisation?

My ultra-pedantic feedback would be to change: The Most Simple kanban board out there. to The simplest Kanban board out there.

Thanks for the feedback. It will be open for just internal customization for customers. This was a huge pain-point for me when dealing with 3rd party software vendors.

I will implement that word change later and possibly get some screenshots up! Users are free to check out the board in action here w/ no signup: https://www.taskfort.com/view/10

Think it's a great idea. Not a fan that your site prevents mouse scrolling on my machine. Mac/Chrome 38
Thanks thoughtpalette for the feedback. I will add that issue to the kanban developer board!

-added to the backlog card-

https://www.taskfort.com/view/10

Perfect reply given this context. ;}
Clickable link: https://www.taskfort.com
What is wrong with Trello?
Trello's pretty awesome, but there's no hosted version. Jira has a hosted kanban version but that's a tank. A lot of enterprises in the financial industry can't use 3rd party web-apps because they're hosted on someone else's server.