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
