Ikai, Thanks! I'm pondering how to best release my code to the open source community. There are a couple of aspects of the backend code that are very near and dear to my heart - having spent many years on them. I'm not trying to make money selling copies of my code, rather i'm trying to keep nimbits free and support it using revenue from web traffic and adsense.
I'm a little worried about that strategy since i've earned approx $4.33 on adsense in the last three months and i'm running at about 20% of my free quota - and i've picked up about 250 users! I'm afraid if i go completly open source I'll end up without anything to show for my work except a free system where i have to pay for everyones CPU time :-) I'm definitly going to make all of my interfaces and add-ons open source. Also i post of ton of source code on my blog posting http://nimbits.blogspot.com I'm very tempted to see what the community could contribute to Nimbits' backend...let me ponder that. I'm at a critical point with nimbits right now, as i see myself approaching the limits of my free quota - my desire is give everyone the equilivent of a facebook for historical data points. Any advice on how to succeed with this would be greatly appriciated! Ben On Feb 16, 4:08 pm, "Ikai L (Google)" <[email protected]> wrote: > Ben, cool! Is this open source? > > > > > > On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 12:26 PM, Benjamin <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hey Guys, > > > Well i'm pretty much ready to release my app engine app to the world > > so i thought i would put out a quick post about the Beta to you guys. > > > I've worked for 12 years in the process control / manufacturing > > industry and I've done a lot of work with Data Historians - these are > > huge systems that cost tens of thousands of $ - I always wanted a > > small / cheaper data historian i could hook my Aquarium up to so I > > made one. > > >http://www.nimbits.comis online and provides a service for > > efficiently storing time series data (such as a changing temperature) > > on App Engine. You can code against it as a service or use one of our > > UIs. I posted a Windows Desktop App, An Android Interface, and a lot > > of sample code on the web site. > > > As you feed time series data into data points, you can perform > > calculations on the data, get email alerts, and see your changing > > values in spreadsheets, diagrams and your phone. There is also a > > social networking aspect to it; you can share your datapoints with > > friends. > > > Check out the website, it's all free - i hope you guys can get some > > use out of it and as always, i appreciate any feedback. I'd also be > > happy to answer any questions if you'd like to know how any of the App > > Engine functionality was developed. > > > Here is a blog posting of mine that has some screen shots and more > > info: > > >http://nimbits.blogspot.com/2009/11/quick-view-of-nimbits.html > > > Ben > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Google App Engine" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected]<google-appengine%[email protected]> > > . > > For more options, visit this group at > >http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. > > -- > Ikai Lan > Developer Programs Engineer, Google App > Enginehttp://googleappengine.blogspot.com|http://twitter.com/app_engine- Hide > quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en.
