Duet - Self Hosted Project Management App
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Looks like neat software. This would be a perfect project for the NTG Lab
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It would be nice to see a free vs paid feature list as well... The Anchor App appears to be a completely separate application. They both look super cool though.
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@dafyre said:
It would be nice to see a free vs paid feature list as well... The Anchor App appears to be a completely separate application. They both look super cool though.
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@WingCreative If I buy Duet, I'm going to tell them you sent me, lol.
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Wow, this looks awesome for a simple one time fee of $49.
Please let me know when you actually set this up. I may fast track it to the top of my list of internal things that need done if it works as good as it looks.
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@JaredBusch I know, right? Based off of the few blog posts I've read, this seems like one of those projects that a developer built for themselves, then thought "oh I might be able to make some money off of this too... I dunno, $50 per person sounds about right?".
My only caveat for this is that I want to inspect the source code with a fine toothed comb before actually using it in production - It will both hold client data and transmit payments, so there's a lot at stake in terms of security.
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It's interesting that the app uses Stripe, but the site uses Gumroad.
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Gumroad is a bit nicer for selling digital products because it's all built into the platform - I think you could use Stripe to process the payments, but you would need to set up the store yourself? Not 100% sure.
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Got this up and running last night. Here are my notes:
On AWS EC2 micro instance for PCI compliance, reliability, and practice with AWS. Would probably work just as well on Digital Ocean or Vultr.
Used Debian 8 64 bit HVM AMI to get things started, with SSH access from a specific IP and open ports 80 + 443.
Total list of software installed via apt-get:
nginx
php5-fpm
mariadb-client
mariadb-server
php5-mysql
curl
php5-curl
sendmailI used Nginx's WordPress config as starting point. Had to modify the PHP socket to match the listen directive in /etc/php5/fpm/pool.d/www.conf, but otherwise worked great.
Once I stopped getting 502 errors and loaded up the install files, things looked pretty good until I got to the license verification step. It said to put in the email address I bought the license with, but gave an error saying it wasn't recognized. I ended up forwarding my purchase receipt to the developer along with my error - this was around 11pm Tuesday evening. I went to bed, and by the time I had woken up I had two emails from the developer: one suggesting a possible fix on my end, and one indicating he had dug deeper on the problem - he found something on his end of things that might have been causing the error and would be working on fixing it today. I was pretty impressed with the quick response!
My hypothesis is that my .co email address was throwing some errors for the verification system but I have no real way of knowing for sure. Yet another reason why I'm moving away from a .co domain, as I've run into a couple of weird snags like this before... Either way, I tried it again last night and it succeeded. It's all hooked up to Stripe and, outside of setting up HTTPS for payments, seems ready to go!
A couple of hiccups along the way:
- I didn't realize you needed to install php5-curl as well as php5-mysql at first, leading me to spend some time vehemently disagreeing with the install requirements page saying I didn't have cURL installed on the server.
- 502 Bad Gateway errors for the nginx WordPress config's PHP socket... I had to hunt down the location of the PHP5-FPM socket to fix this.
- Part of the installation includes setting 777 permissions on a few folders - I am going to experiment with setting those back down to something less worrisome and see if it breaks the installation tonight.
