You're right, it's a common feedback we have, we even have an issue opened for that https://github.com/opencollective/backyourstack/issues/57 We explain what we support in the FAQ but that's not enough. What languages / packages managers are you expecting?
Common ones, I suppose! I have projects involving Java, Python, and Clojure. Of those, I would expect the first two to be covered by a generic dependency analyzer.
(It's fine if it doesn't, but it would be nice to know up front.)
Monolog and Doctrine should be properly detected. After that, we need to match detected dependencies with fundraising strategies (today Open Collective, in the future Patreon and others). Maybe this is why they're not appearing in the "Projects Requiring Funding" section. Feel free to submit an issue on GitHub and we can look at that in details.
Understandable that you're adding support for languages and packaging ecosystems as you go, and JS + PHP is as good a place as any to start, but it would be helpful if this were explicitly highlighted. For those who are unfamiliar with the ecosystems in question, package.json and composer.json are just filenames that don't actually tell you anything.
It would be helpful, and the site creator should list it. However, let's not treat this as a fault. They're offering you a free service and can't launch with every issue already resolved before being identified.
Re-reading my comment I can see it reads a bit like that - I totally don't intend any notion that I expect everything to be perfect, I'm an open source developer myself and as you say we don't expect every issue to be resolved instantly!
Hi, I'm François, an engineer at Open Collective and this is one of my first projects there.
When I joined Open Collective, I was excited to see so many great Open Source projects (like Babel, Webpack, etc ...) managing their financing on the platform. However, it was also quickly clear to me that most users of these Open Source projects have absolutely no idea about their efforts to become financially sustainable.
Discussing this problem within the team, we thought scanning for dependencies (such as package.json and composer.json) would be a simple way of matching users with projects, BackYourStack was born.
We started this for the community to use and own. It's Open Source itself and we would love to provide more detection patterns, also feature other financing strategies (outside of Open Collective). Looking forward to your feedback!
This is what I expect from any serious hosting company know: DDoS protection for every customer as part of the service. It's part the hosting duties and should not be offloaded to any third party company, say Cloudflare.
Interesting, I founded La Distribution http://ladistribution.net/ and we also wants to help people easily install web applications, and take care of everything (configuration, permission, updates, backups, ...)
The difference with Heroku and clones, we're targeting end users rather than developers. Also, we're currently focusing on PHP web apps (Wordpress, Dokuwiki, Status.net, Firefox Sync, ...) but will hopefully expand to other stacks (Ruby, Python) in the future.
