| Hi Hacker News, Early last year I decided to build a web based POS solution. A charity I was working with at the time tasked me with finding a affordable POS solution. The system had to support multiple locations at a reasonable price. Unfortunately I was unable to find any software that fit and so after an initial proof of concept, the project was born. I aimed at using the latest technologies used in the browser and had fun working with them (localstorage, websockets, etc), as well as some very tricky but gratifying problem solving. About a year and a half later I feel WallacePOS is ready for source publishing and this week I uploaded it to github under the LGPL. I hope that it may help businesses like my client have a modern and connected POS system for little cost, and also build a community that can extend and improve the system. Checkout the website and demo: https://wallacepos.com/ Or fork me on Github! https://github.com/micwallace/wallacepos |
Do you usually start projects to learn new technologies? I've heard that's a good technique.
How did you decide on the latest front-end libraries/technologies like Bootstrap, jQueryUI, and Typeahead? Did you discover some of the libraries after trying out writing your own code? I do that sometimes. :)
I'd like to hear about your experience after going from closed to open source. I've heard there can be additional complexity of managing the project, because you need to provide documentation, and manage work with the community of dev volunteers.