AuthorA. Gianotto

Alison is the founder and CEO of Grokability, Inc, the company that makes the open source product Snipe-IT.

Introducing GoodForms!

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We’re thrilled to announce a new product in the Grokability family! Introducing GoodForms, a better way to verify email addresses. GoodForms isn’t just syntax validation, it’s powerful armor against polluted mail server IP spaces that comes from fake/spammy or typo’d email address signups. In it’s most simple form, it’s a drop-in line of javascript, but if you...

Snipe-IT v5.1.0 Released

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Hello friends! Lots and lots of small fixes for you in this release. We’re jazzed to announce that we’ve made some big improvements on the dark mode skins, improved the UX and UI of the login and forgotten password screens, added the long-awaited feature to change an asset’s status on checkout (deployable status labels only), and fixed the double-encoding on...

Neat Crontab Tool

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Crontabs are important to many systems, and are SO easy to monkey up, especially if you don’t have to change them often.

If you find yourself struggling with remembering the order of the numbers, check out this handy tool at

Snipe-IT v5.0.11 Released

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Happy Tuesday! Just a small bug fix release that should make SAML debugging a little easier and fix a few minor bugs. Fixed Fixed typo on route for licensesFixed #8147 – allow webp image format for public file uploadsFixed #8472 (again) – LDAP sync was assigning a bad default location (#8846)Only overwrite notes if the LDAP user is newAdded LDAP flag in users GET...

The Awkwardness of Branding and Naming Things in Open Source SaaS

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When I first made Snipe-IT over 7 years ago, it was a small project I created on my holiday break when I was the CTO of an ad agency in New York City. Asset Management mattered to me, and every other piece of software I found that did what I needed was awful, overpriced, or both. I never imagined it would be so important to so many other folks as well, so I wasn’t thinking about it as...

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