ShoshannaTM laughed at this and said:
“Ask partner out on date, and check their wardrobe to suggest an outfit for the outing”
Which is relevant since we’re about to release a wardrobe sharing feature. I’m really excited about that one. I can see my friends and our partners value it. Like “hey I see you have that shiny silver garment, can I barrow it for new years?”.
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At this point we don’t have a concrete plan, but for the sustainability of the project I would like to monetize it eventually.
As of now we do have a ko-fi donation page set up and linked in the repo though.
What I do know for sure though is that it’s important to me that the selfhosted deployments always be maintained as full featured as possible. I’m a selfhoster myself and have been doing so for many years. I’ve thought a lot about this subject and really don’t want to f it up.
I really like the Bitwarden, Immich, or ghost blog model. “Want to use our convenient cloud hosted instance? Toss us a few bucks a year to support development. Otherwise selfhost it and you’ll still get the same full experience… it just might take a bit of work.”
I’m entertaining some kind of paid plan for professional stylists on the public cloud instance.
The selfhosters will always be our core audience though. It takes actual effort to selfhost and invest in open source, so those who do so will remain first and foremost. And ideally this good will may result in positive recommendations for our cloud offerings down the road to those less inclined to self host.
Sure! Well originally it was just to scratch my own personal itch and have a nice way to display the clothes I own as I kept on loosing track. Now we’ve built out community requested features such as outfit planning/scheduling.
It’s for the intersection of people that like to post #OOTD (Outfit of the day) posts and also really like being organized. There’s existing prominent tools in the space like Stylebook or ACloset but nothing competitive in the open source/selfhosted niche. So that’s where this tool lands.
We hope you enjoy it! 🖤
This was actually on my project backlog for many years and I couldn’t have anticipated the warm community reception.
There’s existing, well loved tools like this one that I’ve since become aware of like Stylebook and Acloset, but none of them are open source/selfhostable. We’re hoping to grow this into the defacto tool in that niche.
I think there will be a lot of good karma from building a solution in this space that gives the users full ownership of their data since it can be a fair amount of work to build out your digital wardrobe and curate all of the information.
Thank you, yes this was already on my radar and Libre-Closet actually already ended up on that news list somehow as a new project without me submitting it.
We’ve certainly been on the lookout for ways to share this project with more people 🖤
Ahh, I hadn’t tested that, that’s good to hear! Thank you for sharing.
Awesome, please feel welcome to reach out either here or on the repo if you run into any issues or questions! 🖤
Thank you, tbh I started it as just a kinda silly side project for myself and I’ve been really pleasantly surprised by it’s reception 🖤
Glad to hear you like it! We worked really hard on it and hope you enjoy it :)
Certainly, we hope you find it useful!
Oh that’s cool!
Thank you 🖤
We hope your wife finds it useful! Please feel welcome to share any feedback either here or on the repo 🖤
That’s a really good suggestion, thank you for your support 🙏