Kudos for not surrendering to the herd of storing everything on a centralised service.

I don't think I'm the only one here who, if this were open source, would gladly spend time improving features or creating connectors / middleware for different apps like GitLab.

Same here. I'm immediately disinterested after finding out it's not open source. I've been looking for an OSS alternative for quite some time (CBA to write one, maybe I should start a project..)

there have been dozens of open-source github-based invoicing, time tracking, pm tools. they're out there. go use one of those. don't start another one.

Maybe one of these projects is a good fit for you.

- https://github.com/taigaio

- https://github.com/wekan/wekan

taigia is actually _impossible_ to set up. I haven't been able to do it on a fresh 14.04 Ubuntu instance from DO after trying at least once per month.

Edit: Let me rephrase. I've tried at least once a month to install taigia following their instructions and also by trying to use some 3rd party docker files. I've been met with failure every time.

so how is it self-hosted if its not open-source? (site is down right now) how is it packaged? what platforms does it run on?

Open-source means a lot of things, in particular this product is probably not freely available/distributable (as in beer & speech). Just because they're going to give you some source files that you could read to self host doesn't mean that the product is open source.

It runs on any server that has PHP and MySql. Even your most basic shared server will work.

It's delivered as a zip.

And the source is technically 'open' meaning you can modify the source code when you purchase it, but it's not free, and access to the source requires buying a license, and even then you're limited to the terms of the license. The biggest term that's different from most open source software is that you can't redistribute it.

Just because you can host and possibly read the code, it doesn't mean that it has to be open-source. [1]

[1]: https://opensource.org/osd