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Hello everyone,
I am currently working on free open source software, essentially a web application, that consists of portfolio and sales management for domainers.
Here is the rundown of the current features I have or am working on at the moment. Most are what you'd probably expect.
The admin portal web application has:
Other features that may or may not be admin specific are as follows:
Here is the dilemma I am facing.
It will be highly recommended to have at least 1 server for the app (self hosting) and 2 more if you'd like to have your own custom nameservers and dns control setup (ns1.mynameserver.com, ns2.nameserver.com).
The APP is being built as a SPA with a .NET core backend. It is so blazingly fast and performable that it will easily run on a $5/month server even for those that have thousands of domain names.
The trouble is if somebody wants to have the 3 servers it will be a minimum cost of $15/per month for them to host it themselves, at which point they may well decide to of course not use the software and choose something like Efty instead.
I would appreciate any opinions on the following:
Finally, there will of course be plenty of documentation to add in installing and setting up the various parts. I will also educate users on best practices, free SSL certificates (entirely possible) and more.
Thank you very much for reading this post and I appreciate any thoughts you guys have.
I am currently working on free open source software, essentially a web application, that consists of portfolio and sales management for domainers.
Here is the rundown of the current features I have or am working on at the moment. Most are what you'd probably expect.
The admin portal web application has:
- Bulk import from different sources:
- Manual entry
- Upload a CSV file or read from other third party sources (Google sheets etc)
- Import directly and securely from supported registrars (requires API access at those registrars)
- BIN and make offer pricing for domains
- Custom offer landing pages (includes an offer page designer)
- Set a different offer page design per domain
- Auto updating and always fully backwards compatible (yes this means you won't have to manually download and redeploy)
- No enforced branding or such on offer pages
- User management
- Maybe you have a team and would like to grant their limited, role based access to manage domains or other settings
- You can even manually add other user accounts that have their own domains and offer pages, (yes go wild!)
- Dashboard that shows various stats, recent sales, leads and more
- Domain grid that provides filtering, sorting and more
- Respond to inbound leads via a chat and email style interface
- Multi lingual support (will only have English at first, but since it is open source others are more than welcome to contribute to translation)
- Name server interface for configuring and managing your own name servers (read more below)
Other features that may or may not be admin specific are as follows:
- Name server support. You can have your own nameservers/dns setup or you can integrate with supported providers such as Dyn or Protected Parking.
- Optional two factor authentication
- A mobile app (that will be paid for as I need to try and make some beer money) that provides a mobile app version of the admin portal but with the added benefits of receiving leads and notifications directly to your phone
Here is the dilemma I am facing.
It will be highly recommended to have at least 1 server for the app (self hosting) and 2 more if you'd like to have your own custom nameservers and dns control setup (ns1.mynameserver.com, ns2.nameserver.com).
The APP is being built as a SPA with a .NET core backend. It is so blazingly fast and performable that it will easily run on a $5/month server even for those that have thousands of domain names.
The trouble is if somebody wants to have the 3 servers it will be a minimum cost of $15/per month for them to host it themselves, at which point they may well decide to of course not use the software and choose something like Efty instead.
I would appreciate any opinions on the following:
- What do you make of the cost of self hosting this? $5/month for most cases, as DNS can still be handled elsewhere if the user would prefer?
- What are your thoughts on the existing features and what would you like to see added?
- Any other comments or thoughts you'd love to put across?
Finally, there will of course be plenty of documentation to add in installing and setting up the various parts. I will also educate users on best practices, free SSL certificates (entirely possible) and more.
Thank you very much for reading this post and I appreciate any thoughts you guys have.
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