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Show HN: “Install on DigitalOcean” button for open source apps(github.com)
279 points by timmorgan 12y ago|54 comments
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by timmorgan 12y ago
Yes, there is support for Admin users who can manage the entire system, or just part of it, depending on the permissions given.
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by timmorgan 12y ago
Just doing my part! ;-)
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by timmorgan 12y ago
I'm sorry to hear that. Certainly there are bad churches in the world. But there are many many more churches that are helping meet needs (physical, mental, spiritual) in their communities. I hate that you've only seen negative aff
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by timmorgan 12y ago
For the record, I did not downvote. Curious if you had a bad experience in a church, or in general why the negative sentiment.
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by timmorgan 12y ago
Oh, I didn't mean at all that HN is anti-Christian. I just didn't think that church software (a very specific niche) was all that interesting to the HN crowd. I'm very pleased with all the support!
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by timmorgan 12y ago
Yeah, I know right? This is crazy. I surely didn't expect this kind of support! Thanks guys!
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by timmorgan 12y ago
Yeah, I suspect a lot of churches could just get by with Facebook Groups and be happy. For our church, however, finding/begging people to join Facebook was a problem, and some people have privacy concerns, so having our own private soc
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by timmorgan 12y ago
Ahh, I wasn't aware. I imported the World English Bible XML directly. I'll need to investigate more...
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by timmorgan 12y ago
Yeah, with Rails + MySQL, 1GB is best in my experience. I bet someone could tune it all to run in 512 MB, but for me, the difference in money isn't worth the extra effort. I'm not really sure how one would "port" a Rails
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by timmorgan 12y ago
OneBody is really more for your "members only" area of the site, not the visitor-focused website. I recommend Wordpress for that :-)
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by timmorgan 12y ago
Well, yes the small group itself should notice and act, but it's also nice to have an overall picture of the health of your small groups and class participation. We have an "Involvement Minister" who watches churn rate so to
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by timmorgan 12y ago
I put up a demo several hours after this comment. If you're still interested, you can find this on the http://church.io website. 1. As for service times, the software doesn't really have any calendaring feature at the
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by timmorgan 12y ago
AdminLTE http://almsaeedstudio.com/AdminLTE/
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by timmorgan 12y ago
I looked at Sandstorm, but it seems it's in "closed alpha" - how do you recommend I use it?
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by timmorgan 12y ago
It has a handful of Christian church-specific features, such as personal "Testimony", bible verse sharing, attendance tracking, etc. If one were to take those features away, it would work for any close-knit community.
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by timmorgan 12y ago
No, sorry. AGPL still allows a company to provide a hosted commercial service (which I encourage), while also ensuring said company doesn't keep improvements to themselves.
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by timmorgan 12y ago
Steve! Yeah that seems like a long time ago... Hope you are well!
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by timmorgan 12y ago
Depends on how you installed it... if you're running on your local computer, then it sounds like you're running in "production" mode without first compiling assets with `rake assets:precompile`. (See http://gu
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by timmorgan 12y ago
OneBody is powered by another of my projects http://bible-api.com ( https://github.com/seven1m/bible_api ), which just needs a little bit of code to return verses from the Apocrypha. If there's interest,
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by timmorgan 12y ago
Sometimes it's just fun to build something from scratch and make it awesome. Also, if I had built OneBody using PHP I certainly would not have lasted this long in keeping it going. Ruby is great language that I really enjoy using every
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by timmorgan 12y ago
Probably < 10, but it's hard to know. The software (older version) has been open source for a long time and I've had dozens of people interested in it in the past. I should have installed a tracking pixel or something ;-)
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by timmorgan 12y ago
Thanks! The authorization stuff expects that method to be there, so just return true! :-)
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by timmorgan 12y ago
Yeah we don't have online giving. Check-in is being beta tested at my church though, so be on the lookout for that in the next version :-)
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by timmorgan 12y ago
I'm not very familiar with churchcommunitybuilder so I can't say. As for scheduling volunteer and such, you should definitely check out Planning Center Services app (that's what I work on for my day job) - it is by far the be
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by timmorgan 12y ago
No reason that I can think of! OneBody was birthed out of a church, so it's niche has always been that. There were no customer research or market position analysis here - just plain ol' scratching an itch!
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by timmorgan 12y ago
Hehe! I work for Planning Center! Our team is absolutely awesome, and the fact that they let me work on this stuff in my spare time is really neat.
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by timmorgan 12y ago
I strongly considered building on DigitalOcean API and doing some sort of pre-built image where I transfer it to the customer or something. I'm interested in Sandstorm -- will check it out!
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by timmorgan 12y ago
True... it's even set up to run multiple "sites" off the same instance of the app and database. But I have a day job I love and don't need this to be a commercial thing.
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by timmorgan 12y ago
That would be awesome!!! I've been thinking about adding some scheduling stuff, so that could be a great pairing!

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