The Organic Software Directory

How it started

Status: Busted Beta

This thing is just taking it's first steps. We are still missing a few crucial features, and the frontend is not gorgeous. Enjoy!

What is "Organic Sofware"?

Coined by @pketh, Organic Software is software that:

  1. Is not funded in such a way where the primary obligation of the company is to 🎡 chase funding rounds or get acquired (so bootstrapping, crowdfunding, grants, and angel investment are okay)
  2. Have a clear pricing page
  3. Disclose their sources of funding and sources of revenue

OSD Strives to be organic software

It currently doesn't meet the criteria because we haven't figured out sustainable funding. At the moment, the bills are covered by Miniware.

There are a few ideas floating around in discussions though, please weigh in!

Contributing

Pull requests are welcome and encouraged! Once we have a fair source of revenue, bounties will be posted as well.

In order to keep this project focused and maintainable, not all PRs will be merged.

Pull requests should...

  • Include tests
  • Introduce minimal dependencies
  • Conform to standard.rb
  • Be excited about discussion

Running locally:

# assuming ruby is installed and up to date, and you've cloned the repo somewhere

$ bundle
$ rails db:setup
$ ./bin/dev
$ open localhost:3000