[Photon] Photon API availability

[Tim-Hinnerk Heuer]

Cool! If I get say 4 people chipping in 5 bucks per month I'll do it. It'll
take a couple of weeks to get started I believe.

On Thu, 29 Jun 2023, 05:49 Roland Mostoha, <roland.mostoha at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey guys,
>
> I'm also very satisfied with Photon capabilities, and struggle with the
> downtimes. I'm running a small hobby app for hungarian hikers and monitored
> ~60 timeout events this month from users using the API.
>
> My sweetspot would be 5 dollars/month for a reliable Photon API.
>
> I would love to see this track moving forward, so fingers crossed :)
>
> Regards,
> Roland
>
> On Wed, Jun 28, 2023 at 11:59 AM Tim-Hinnerk Heuer <
> th.heuer+photon at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Cristian,
>>
>> Photon has been an interest of mine for a while. I was working on
>> importing custom data and writing data transformation software for it and I
>> have the skills to do whatever requirements people have on the data and
>> programming side.
>>
>> It looks like there might not be too much support from the original
>> maintainers, so I was thinking to run a SaaS based on photon. I guess it is
>> Foss and it is legitimate to do so as long as you don't distribute the
>> software for a price. The interpretation of licenses and the law may vary.
>>
>> But if there's interest and people would pay for the service, I would be
>> very happy to provide Photon SaaS.
>>
>> Could you please let me know if there's interest for this and how much it
>> would be worth for you? I mean anyone in this Forum.
>>
>> The best physical location I can provide this service is Germany. So in
>> Europe you should get very decent latencies.
>>
>> If the Photon maintainers want to do this fair enough but if there's no
>> interest from them I'd be honored to provide this service and start helping
>> maintain the Photon software in the Foss4G space. I think it's great
>> software and needs better commercial support.
>>
>> Anything you'd like to add?
>>
>> Looking forward to hearing from you.
>>
>> Kind regards,
>> Tim
>>
>> On Wed, 28 Jun 2023, 20:38 Cristian Schuszter, <
>> cristian.schuszter at cern.ch> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello!
>>>
>>> I'm writing to you as a very happy user of the Photon API. We have a
>>> service that uses it quite reliably for the past 2 years, but from time to
>>> time it seems to experience downtimes. (talking about
>>> https://photon.komoot.io/ )
>>>
>>> Could you let me know if there's any dashboard we can check about
>>> planned interventions or downtime?
>>>
>>> We were thinking of self-hosting it, but it all depends on what you
>>> would suggest me to do.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Cristian Schuszter
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