Hi Giovanni, thanks a lot for your introduction. I wish you the best for your service. And thanks in advance for your contributions. Tutorials is something we need a lot more ;-)
Please note that there are also more mailing lists: https://couchdb.apache.org/#mailing-lists You may want to join them also. And we there is the wiki: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/COUCHDB/Apache+CouchDB+Wiki If you would like to add anything, just drop us a note and we grant you the appropriate rights. All the best and welcome ;-) Andy On 18 April 2015 at 11:35, Giovanni Lenzi <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi everybody, > > Thanks for sharing our tutorial link. > > I just wanted to introduce myself and the Smileupps Team in a more formal > way. Last months, we put a lot of effort in our project, so we didn't find > much time for socials and PR. > > As some of you may know, we are an italian team, withouth any external > financing, interested in CouchDB growth. We started www.couchappy.com > project in 2013, as a plain CouchDB hosting, with the mission to ease > developer life in creating great apps. We thought CouchDB was great for it > and we still continue to think it. > > Two months ago, we released our 2.0 version and, in agreement with the PMC, > we renamed the project to www.smileupps.com to leave the word "Couch" out > of it, so preventing any confusion to CouchDB community and ecosystem. > > With 2.0 we finally reached what was our target from the beginning: an app > store for CLOUD web applications... an app-store which, being based on > cloud apps, may really be more business-oriented and where customers may > finally find something useful for their daily job, besides the latest > puzzle-game or notepad. > > We wanted to let developers focus on building apps and providing support > only, instead of worrying about side activities like housing, server > administration, security and so on. To this purpose, we introduced a new > cost-effective pricing model, to clearly separate app from hosting costs. > However, we firmly don't want to lock developers with us, so we support > only opensource CouchDB versions, to give them option to change us anytime. > > I won't write any further, you can have a look at our website: > www.smileupps.com > > We wanted to introduce ourselves because, even if, with our work, we think > we are already actively contributing to CouchDB growth, we would like to > help further with some tutorials and articles already planned, and, if > possible, even some marketing ideas. > > Thanks for reading and yours efforts in building this amazing product, > -------- > Giovanni Lenzi, > Chief Executive Officer > Smileupps Cloud App Store > https://www.smileupps.com > -- Andy Wenk Hamburg - Germany RockIt! GPG fingerprint: C044 8322 9E12 1483 4FEC 9452 B65D 6BE3 9ED3 9588 https://people.apache.org/keys/committer/andywenk.asc
