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Plurk Solace - Free and Open-source version of stackexchange.com

43 points by amix 17y ago

aditya 17y ago
Nice of them to launch it on the same day as stackexchange.com goes into beta.
- antonovka 17y ago
  Inherent risk of selling a relatively easily reproduced product.
  - skolor 17y ago
    Except that it isn't a reproduced product, and they largely won't be competing against each other. Stackexchange is offering a solution for it, Solace is just the software. They don't directly compete. Now, I'd guess them being released on the same day isn't a coincidence, but I think its interesting to point out they don't directly compete.
    - amix 17y ago
      amix here from Plurk. Our plan isn't really to compete against StackExchange. StackExchange seems to be targeted at a more enterprise crew and I am sure they will be successful at their market penetration (given the success of StackOverflow and FogBugz). Our plan is to create a solution that we (our you) have 100% control over and that supports over 30 languages. Support is such a pain and Solace is mainly created to solve the issue surrounding support. Solace also offers an API that lets you integrate Solace deeply into your product. Anyhow, the bottom line is that Solace is more targeted at startups and open-source projects - - while StackExchange is targeted at small business / enterprise market. That's at least how we look at it.
    - antonovka 17y ago
      I'd say they do directly compete for some significant segment of the market -- anecdotally, I regularly compare services (or 'solutions') against installable products when researching the available options.
- yanowitz 17y ago
  they said they were going beta by today. is that real (i.e., http://stackexchange.com/ http://stackexchange.com/ doesn't seem to have changed)?
  - gojomo 17y ago
    I filled out the interest form the day it was pre-announced and haven't received any email followup yet.
mtrichardson 17y ago
And it's werkzeug-powered (well, of course, considering mitsuhiko works there). Yay!
po 17y ago
I don't see what's so special about it. I could write that in a weekend. ;-)
- utku_karatas2 17y ago
  Seriously, how much work did it take roughly (@amix)? After all the fuss about "weekend job" issue one wonders.
  - amix 17y ago
    It was developed by @mitsuhiko and it has taken some work (you can check out the source code on http://bitbucket.org/plurk/solace/src/tip/solace/ http://bitbucket.org/plurk/solace/src/tip/solace/ - it's not a simple project). That said, it has not taken a lot of time, because mitsuhiko is a ninja ;)
  - mitsuhiko 17y ago
    I worked for about three months on coding and two weeks on the concept. Yes, even though it's strongly inspired by Stackoverflow, it still requires some thinking about the implementation (especially the i18n stuff).
callmeed 17y ago
Was hoping it would be in Ruby, but maybe this is a good excuse to learn Python.

43 points by amix 17y ago

aditya 17y ago

Nice of them to launch it on the same day as stackexchange.com goes into beta.

antonovka 17y ago
Inherent risk of selling a relatively easily reproduced product.
- skolor 17y ago
  Except that it isn't a reproduced product, and they largely won't be competing against each other. Stackexchange is offering a solution for it, Solace is just the software. They don't directly compete. Now, I'd guess them being released on the same day isn't a coincidence, but I think its interesting to point out they don't directly compete.
  - amix 17y ago
    amix here from Plurk. Our plan isn't really to compete against StackExchange. StackExchange seems to be targeted at a more enterprise crew and I am sure they will be successful at their market penetration (given the success of StackOverflow and FogBugz). Our plan is to create a solution that we (our you) have 100% control over and that supports over 30 languages. Support is such a pain and Solace is mainly created to solve the issue surrounding support. Solace also offers an API that lets you integrate Solace deeply into your product. Anyhow, the bottom line is that Solace is more targeted at startups and open-source projects - - while StackExchange is targeted at small business / enterprise market. That's at least how we look at it.
  - antonovka 17y ago
    I'd say they do directly compete for some significant segment of the market -- anecdotally, I regularly compare services (or 'solutions') against installable products when researching the available options.
yanowitz 17y ago
they said they were going beta by today. is that real (i.e., http://stackexchange.com/ http://stackexchange.com/ doesn't seem to have changed)?
- gojomo 17y ago
  I filled out the interest form the day it was pre-announced and haven't received any email followup yet.

mtrichardson 17y ago

And it's werkzeug-powered (well, of course, considering mitsuhiko works there). Yay!

po 17y ago

I don't see what's so special about it. I could write that in a weekend. ;-)

utku_karatas2 17y ago
Seriously, how much work did it take roughly (@amix)? After all the fuss about "weekend job" issue one wonders.
- amix 17y ago
  It was developed by @mitsuhiko and it has taken some work (you can check out the source code on http://bitbucket.org/plurk/solace/src/tip/solace/ http://bitbucket.org/plurk/solace/src/tip/solace/ - it's not a simple project). That said, it has not taken a lot of time, because mitsuhiko is a ninja ;)
- mitsuhiko 17y ago
  I worked for about three months on coding and two weeks on the concept. Yes, even though it's strongly inspired by Stackoverflow, it still requires some thinking about the implementation (especially the i18n stuff).

callmeed 17y ago

Was hoping it would be in Ruby, but maybe this is a good excuse to learn Python.