As some of you might have realised, i have started a thread in the Business Partner section, titled: Property Management Software for the hostel community, run by the community.
Here are some of my thoughts why i started it.
- Running a hostel is a business and therefor you need proper tools, designed and supported especially for your needs, and as nearly every single hostel has special needs, it should be as much adaptable as possible. One size fits all does not work for your jeans or whatever clothing and it neather works for your property in general.
- Trust should be kept as much as possible in your own control, meaning *the cloud* is much talked about as *the* solution for everything, only there are some pitfalls, as there might be many other people or organizations you will automatically *trust* without knowing, when using *the cloud*.
- stability, safety and availability are a must, therefor an online-only solution would not satisfy my own demands on quality of software. Internet acces is not an 100% guaranteed resource, like most of us are used to for e.g. watersupply. Do you really want to be cut off ALL information regarding your business, once your internetconnection might drop down? As a software developer i really know what i am talking about, most users think of backups and things like that as quite interesting, but not that urgent, until the first time....
- something like an open source software and even more important a supporting community wont come up by itself without effort. software development is a daunting task and it is not enough to put something simply *open*, just because someones Hostel lost *Power*, e.g. ...
software development is a business too and software developer do need some dineros to buy food, pay their rent and so on. Did you think about that yet? I know this question sounds a bit offensive, but guess how many times in my life i have been looked at as a millionare, simply because i know how to develop software? A handful of software businesses became billionares, most of them in silicon valley or at Microsoft, but the most of us developers have to struggle hard to get *any* money.
Ok, enough thoughts for today, anyone interested in joining?
Regards
Peter
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